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>>I surrender
>
>No batlle :-}

I was so convinced a static initializer was thread safe ....


>In trying to discover a VB.net alternative to volatile I found this
>:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.threading.thread.memorybarrier(v=VS.100).aspx
>
>Now my head hurts and I'm going to stop :-}

A couple of bitters helps in most cases