If you're happy to use the Microsoft Reactive Extensions, then this can work nicely:
public class Foo
{
public delegate void MyEventHandler(object source, MessageEventArgs args);
public event MyEventHandler _event;
public string ReadLine()
{
return Observable
.FromEventPattern<MyEventHandler, MessageEventArgs>(
h => this._event += h,
h => this._event -= h)
.Select(ep => ep.EventArgs.Message)
.First();
}
public void SendLine(string message)
{
_event(this, new MessageEventArgs() { Message = message });
}
}
public class MessageEventArgs : EventArgs
{
public string Message;
}
I can use it like this:
var foo = new Foo();
ThreadPoolScheduler.Instance
.Schedule(
TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5.0),
() => foo.SendLine("Bar!"));
var resp = foo.ReadLine();
Console.WriteLine(resp);
I needed to call the SendLine message on a different thread to avoid locking, but this code shows that it works as expected.