Combining Interlocked.Increment and Interlocked.Exchange

Question

I wish to atomically increment a static variable and simultaneously assign the new value to an instance field in a lock-free manner. The objective is for each object to get a unique, incrementing id upon creation, such that there is no chance for two objects to get the same id.

Will the following code achieve this?

class MyClass
{
    private static int currentOrderingId;
    private int orderingId;

    public MyClass()
    {
        Interlocked.Exchange(ref orderingId, Interlocked.Increment(ref currentOrderingId));
    }
}

Answer 1

You only need to do this:

orderingId = Interlocked.Increment(ref currentOrderingId);

There's no way that two threads could then receive the same value, so it is threadsafe.