How do I wait for a C# event to be raised?

Question

I have a Sender class that sends a Message on a IChannel:

public class MessageEventArgs : EventArgs {
  public Message         


        

Answer 1

WaitOne is really the right tool for this job. In short, you want to wait between 0 and MaxWaitInMs milliseconds for a job to complete. You really have two choices, poll for completion or synchronize the threads with some construct that can wait an arbitrary amount of time.

Since you're well aware of the right way to do this, for posterity I'll post the polling version:

MessageEventArgs msgArgs = null;
var callback = (object o, MessageEventArgs args) => {
    msgArgs = args;
};

_c.MessageReceived += callback;
_c.Send(m);

int msLeft = MaxWaitInMs;
while (msgArgs == null || msLeft >= 0) {
    Thread.Sleep(100);
    msLeft -= 100; // you should measure this instead with say, Stopwatch
}

_c.MessageRecieved -= callback;