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title: "Introducing Typemock Racer 1.0 – Find multithreaded deadlocks"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/5/19/introducing-typemock-racer-10-find-multithreaded-deadlocks.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/5/19/introducing-typemock-racer-10-find-multithreaded-deadlocks.html"
published: "2009-05-19T06:32:51"
updated: "2009-05-19T06:32:51"
tags: ["Agile", "Threading", "Typemock", "racer"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I’m proud to announce the official release of Typemock Racer - A Parallel Inspection engine for your multithreaded code. Think Microsoft Chess, only it’s available today, for visual studio 2008, and will continually be…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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---

# Introducing Typemock Racer 1.0 – Find multithreaded deadlocks

By Roy Osherove May 19, 2009 In [Agile](https://osherove.com/blog/category/agile), [Threading](https://osherove.com/blog/category/threading), [Typemock](https://osherove.com/blog/category/typemock), [racer](https://osherove.com/blog/category/racer)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 19, 2009; technical details may be outdated.

I’m proud to announce the official release [of Typemock Racer](http://www.typemock.com/learn_about_typemock_racer.php)\- A Parallel Inspection engine for your multithreaded code. Think Microsoft Chess, only it’s available today, for visual studio 2008, and will continually be updated with new features.

![image](https://osherove.com/img/wb/abd2b302_weblogs.asp.net_blogs_rosherove_image_thumb_7E44E913.png)

Racer’s main purpose is to find and recreate deadlocks in code that you give it. Think of it like specifying a unit test, but then putting one simple attribute on top of the test called \[ParallelInspection\]. This will turn the test into a Racer test.

In the future racer will extend to also checking for race conditions, but currently will find deadlocks in managed code.

I made a quick little movie that shows how to start using it quickly and painlessly. see below.

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## About the author

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