thread safety using Interlocked

Question

Hello everyone,

Suppose Status is an int variable, which could be read and write by multiple threads.

When assign the value (write) of Status variable, I always use,

[Code]
Interlocked.Exchange(ref Status, SomeValue);
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My question is, in order to make write/read of this variable thread safe, could I access (read) the variable directly by accessing Status variable, for example

[Code]
Console.write (Status);

if (Status > 0)
{
 // some ops
}
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thanks in advance,
George