Thread-safe variable check
I use this often as a thread safe way of executing some code once (inside MVC route constraint, in my case). Variable holds a value of 1 if check was not performed. Bool type is not used because Interlocked supports just ints.
private static int _isFirstTime = 1;
private void ShouldRunJustOnce()
{
if (1 == Interlocked.Exchange(ref _isFirstTime, 0))
{
// code to execute
}
}