Implementing NotifyPropertyChanged without magic strings [duplicate]

Answer 1

Personally I like to use Microsoft PRISM's NotificationObject for this reason, and I would guess that their code is reasonably optimized since it's created by Microsoft.

It allows me to use code such as RaisePropertyChanged(() => this.Value);, in addition to keeping the "Magic Strings" so you don't break any existing code.

If I look at their code with Reflector, their implementation can be recreated with the code below

public class ViewModelBase : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
    // Fields
    private PropertyChangedEventHandler propertyChanged;

    // Events
    public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged
    {
        add
        {
            PropertyChangedEventHandler handler2;
            PropertyChangedEventHandler propertyChanged = this.propertyChanged;
            do
            {
                handler2 = propertyChanged;
                PropertyChangedEventHandler handler3 = (PropertyChangedEventHandler)Delegate.Combine(handler2, value);
                propertyChanged = Interlocked.CompareExchange(ref this.propertyChanged, handler3, handler2);
            }
            while (propertyChanged != handler2);
        }
        remove
        {
            PropertyChangedEventHandler handler2;
            PropertyChangedEventHandler propertyChanged = this.propertyChanged;
            do
            {
                handler2 = propertyChanged;
                PropertyChangedEventHandler handler3 = (PropertyChangedEventHandler)Delegate.Remove(handler2, value);
                propertyChanged = Interlocked.CompareExchange(ref this.propertyChanged, handler3, handler2);
            }
            while (propertyChanged != handler2);
        }
    }

    protected void RaisePropertyChanged(params string[] propertyNames)
    {
        if (propertyNames == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException("propertyNames");
        }
        foreach (string str in propertyNames)
        {
            this.RaisePropertyChanged(str);
        }
    }

    protected void RaisePropertyChanged(Expression> propertyExpression)
    {
        string propertyName = PropertySupport.ExtractPropertyName(propertyExpression);
        this.RaisePropertyChanged(propertyName);
    }

    protected virtual void RaisePropertyChanged(string propertyName)
    {
        PropertyChangedEventHandler propertyChanged = this.propertyChanged;
        if (propertyChanged != null)
        {
            propertyChanged(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(propertyName));
        }
    }
}

public static class PropertySupport
{
    // Methods
    public static string ExtractPropertyName(Expression> propertyExpression)
    {
        if (propertyExpression == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentNullException("propertyExpression");
        }
        MemberExpression body = propertyExpression.Body as MemberExpression;
        if (body == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentException("propertyExpression");
        }
        PropertyInfo member = body.Member as PropertyInfo;
        if (member == null)
        {
            throw new ArgumentException("propertyExpression");
        }
        if (member.GetGetMethod(true).IsStatic)
        {
            throw new ArgumentException("propertyExpression");
        }
        return body.Member.Name;
    }
}