Blocking and waiting for an event

Question

It sometimes want to block my thread while waiting for a event to occur.

I usually do it something like this:

private AutoResetEvent _autoResetEvent          


        

Answer 1

I think like these should work, didn't tried just coded.

public class EventWaiter where T : EventArgs
{
    private System.Threading.ManualResetEvent manualEvent;

    public EventWaiter(T e)
    {
        manualEvent = new System.Threading.ManualResetEvent(false);
        e += this.OnEvent;
    }

    public void OnEvent(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        manualEvent.Set();
    }

    public void WaitOne()
    {
        manualEvent.WaitOne();
    }

    public void Reset()
    {
        manualEvent.Reset();
    }
}

Didn't thought about too much, but can't figure out how to make it isolated from the EventArgs.

Take a look at the MSDN ManualResetEvent and you will discover that you can kind of chain the waits and so some weird stuff.