Question

I’m trying to hide an event from an inherited class, but not via EditorBrowserable attribute.
I have a DelayedFileSystemWatcher which inherits from FileSystemWatcher and I need to hide the Changed, Created, Deleted and Renamed events and make them private.
I tried this, but it does not work:

    /// <summary>
    /// Do not use
    /// </summary>
    private new event FileSystemEventHandler Changed;

The XML comment is not showing in IntelliSense (the original info is shown). However, if I change the access modifier to public, the XML comment is shown in IntelliSense.

Any help is is welcome.

Answer 1

You don’t want to use it but it trivially solves your problem:

class MyWatcher : FileSystemWatcher {
    [Browsable(false), EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]
    private new event FileSystemEventHandler Changed;
    // etc..
}

The only other thing you can do is encapsulate it. Which is doable, the class just doesn’t have that many members and you are eliminating several of them:

class MyWatcher : Component {
    private FileSystemWatcher watcher = new FileSystemWatcher();
    public MyWatcher() {
        watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = true;
        watcher.Changed += new FileSystemEventHandler(watcher_Changed);
        // etc..
    }
    public string Path {
        get { return watcher.Path; }
        set { watcher.Path = value; }
    }
    // etc..
}