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)  
        {  
        }  
    }