Is it poor form for a C# class to subscribe to its own published events?

Question

I\'m probably just being neurotic, but I regularly find myself in situations in which I have class that publishes an event, and I find it convenient to subscribe to this eve

Answer 1

There's a very exotic problem due to internal optimization when doing this. Due to the optimization adding/removing event handlers is not thread safe. It only applies to events that are used by the declaring type like in your example.

Fortunately this has been changed with 4.0, but if you're on previous version, you could experience this.