Collection Events?

I was wondering if there is a way to monitor a collection (eg StringCollection) for changes.

Back in the Delphi world, there was a class called TStringList, which was essentially the same thing, and it had an OnChanged event, which enabled you to listen for changes to the list.

I think a Change event in the standard collection classes would be immensely helpful - or is there already a collection class with a Change event that I haven't found

If no such animal exists ... would it be worth petitioning to have an event added to the base collection classes for a future release

Cheers,
mabster

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Collection Events?

luca morelli
I agree it would be handy to add a Changed event on Collection.

However, it wouldn't be too hard to derive from Collection<T> and override the ClearItems, InsertItem, RemoveItem and SetItem methods to raise a Changed event.
myNameIsRon
Would the generic System.ComponentModel.BindingList class work for you

Best regards,
Johan Stenberg
RajPratapReddy
Possibly. I'm just using a collection to keep track of most recently used files. I wanted to catch the change event so I could update my File menu.

I'll check it out. Thanks.
DaveFinley
Yes, for now that might be the only option. Are those the only methods I'd have to override
Collection Events?

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