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Weak Events in C#

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Different approaches to weak events
// Copyright (c) 2008 Daniel Grunwald
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using System;

namespace SmartWeakEvent
{
	public interface IEventSource
	{
		event EventHandler Event;
	}
	
	public class SmartEventSource : IEventSource
	{
		SmartWeakEvent<EventHandler> _event = new SmartWeakEvent<EventHandler>();

		public event EventHandler Event {
			add { _event.Add(value); }
			remove { _event.Remove(value); }
		}

		public void RaiseEvent()
		{
			_event.Raise(this, EventArgs.Empty);
		}
	}
	
	public class FastSmartEventSource : IEventSource
	{
		FastSmartWeakEvent<EventHandler> _event = new FastSmartWeakEvent<EventHandler>();
		
		public event EventHandler Event {
			add { _event.Add(value); }
			remove { _event.Remove(value); }
		}
		
		public void RaiseEvent()
		{
			_event.Raise(this, EventArgs.Empty);
		}
	}
	
	public class EventListener
	{
		IEventSource source;
		
		public EventListener(IEventSource source)
		{
			this.source = source;
		}
		
		public void Attach()
		{
			source.Event += source_Event;
		}

		public void Detach()
		{
			source.Event -= source_Event;
		}
		
		void source_Event(object sender, EventArgs e)
		{
			Console.WriteLine("Event was called!");
		}
		
		~EventListener()
		{
			Console.WriteLine("EventListener was garbage-collected!");
		}
	}
}

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