Handle property change event listeners (lots of them) more elegantly (dictionary?)

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Published on 2010-03-16T11:05:49Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 11:06 UTC
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hELLO !

Here i have a simple class example with three fields of type class B and some other stuff. As you can see im listening on every child object change. Since i could need alot of properties of type class B i wonder if there is a way of shrinking the code. Creating a listener + a method for each seems like i will have ALOT of code. How would i fix this ... using a dictionary or something similar? I have been told that IoC could fix this, but im not sure where to start.

public class A : INotifyPropertyChanged
{
    public event PropertyChangedEventHandler PropertyChanged;

    public int _id;
    public int Id
    {
        get { return _id; }
        set
        {
            if (_id == value)
            {
                return;
            }

            _id = value;
            OnPropertyChanged("Id"); 
        }
    }

    public string _name;
    public string Name
    {
        get { return _name; }
        set
        {
            if (_name == value)
            {
                return;
            }

            _name = value; 
            OnPropertyChanged("Name"); 
        }
    }

    public B _firstB;
    public B FirstB
    {
        get { return _firstB; }
        set 
        {
            if (_firstB == value)
            {
                return;
            }

            if (_firstB != null)
            {
                FirstB.PropertyChanged -= firstObjectB_Listener;
            }

            _firstB = value;

            if (_firstB != null) 
                FirstB.PropertyChanged += new PropertyChangedEventHandler(firstObjectB_Listener);

            OnPropertyChanged("FirstB"); 
        }
    }

    public B _secondB;
    public B SecondB
    {
        get { return _secondB; }
        set
        {
            if (_secondB == value)
            {
                return;
            }

            if (_secondB != null)
            {
                FirstB.PropertyChanged -= secondObjectB_Listener;
            }

            _secondB = value;

            if (_secondB != null)
                SecondB.PropertyChanged += new PropertyChangedEventHandler(secondObjectB_Listener);

            OnPropertyChanged("FirstB");
        }
    }

    public B _thirdB;
    public B ThirdB
    {
        get { return _thirdB; }
        set
        {
            if (_thirdB == value)
            {
                return;
            }

            if (_thirdB != null)
            {
                ThirdB.PropertyChanged -= thirdObjectB_Listener;
            }

            _thirdB = value;

            if (_thirdB != null)
                ThirdB.PropertyChanged += new PropertyChangedEventHandler(thirdObjectB_Listener);

            OnPropertyChanged("ThirdB");
        }
    }

    protected void OnPropertyChanged(string name)
    {
        PropertyChangedEventHandler handler = PropertyChanged;
        if (handler != null)
        {
            handler(this, new PropertyChangedEventArgs(name));
        }
    }

    void firstObjectB_Listener(object sender, PropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Object A has found a change of " + e.PropertyName + " on first object B");
    }

    void secondObjectB_Listener(object sender, PropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Object A has found a change of " + e.PropertyName + " on second object B");
    }

    void thirdObjectB_Listener(object sender, PropertyChangedEventArgs e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Object A has found a change of " + e.PropertyName + " on third object B");
    }
}

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