Avoid duplicate event subscriptions in C#

Question

How would you suggest the best way of avoiding duplicate event subscriptions? if this line of code executes in two places, the event will get ran twice. I\'m trying to avoid

Answer 1

I think, the most efficient way, is to make your event a property and add concurrency locks to it as in this Example:

private EventHandler _theEvent;
private object _eventLock = new object();
public event EventHandler TheEvent
{
    add
    {
        lock (_eventLock) 
        { 
            _theEvent -= value; 
            _theEvent += value; 
        }
    }
    remove
    {
        lock (_eventLock) 
        { 
           _theEvent -= value; 
        }
    }
}