On .NET Framework 2.0 AutoResetEvent and ManualResetEvent inherit from EventWaitHandle. The EventWaitHandle class has 4 different constructors. 3 of the constructors support giving a name to the event. On the other hand both ManualResetEvent and AutoResetEvent do not support naming and provide a single constructor that receives the initialState. I can simply inherit from EventWaitHandle and write my own implementation of those classes that support all the constructor overloads, but I don't like to re-invent the wheel if I do not have to. My questions are:
Is there a special problem in naming events?
Do you have any idea why Microsoft did not support it?
Do you have a proposal better than inheriting from the EventWaitHandle class and calling the appropriate constructor as in the following example?
public class MyAutoResetEvent: EventWaitHandle
{
public MyAutoResetEvent(bool initialState)
: base(initialState, EventResetMode.AutoReset)
{
}
public MyAutoResetEvent(bool initialState, string name)
: base(initialState, EventResetMode.AutoReset, name)
{
}
public MyAutoResetEvent(bool initialState, string name, out bool createdNew)
: base(initialState, EventResetMode.AutoReset, name, out createdNew)
{
}
public MyAutoResetEvent(bool initialState, string name, out bool createdNew, EventWaitHandleSecurity eventSecurity)
: base(initialState, EventResetMode.AutoReset, string.Empty, out createdNew, eventSecurity)
{
}
}
