Creating a weak subscription to an IObservable

Question

What I want to do is ensure that if the only reference to my observer is the observable, it get\'s garbage collected and stops receiving messages.

Say I have a control w

Answer 1

Ran across this thread a couple years later...just wanted to point forward to the solution identified on Samuel Jack's blog which adds an extension method to IObservable called WeaklySubscribe. It uses an approach of adding a shim between the subject and observer that tracks the target with a WeakReference. That is similar to solutions offered by others for the problem of strong references in event subscriptions, such as in this article or this solution by Paul Stovell. Having for awhile used something based on Paul's approach I like Samuel's solution to weak IObservable Subscribes.