Why is ReadOnlyObservableCollection.CollectionChanged not public?

Question

Why is ReadOnlyObservableCollection.CollectionChanged protected and not public (as the corresponding ObservableCollection.CollectionChanged is)?

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Answer 1

There are definitely good reasons for wanting to subscribe to collection changed notifications on a ReadOnlyObservableCollection. So, as an alternative to merely casting your collection as INotifyCollectionChanged, if you happen to be subclassing ReadOnlyObservableCollection, then the following provides a more syntactically convenient way to access the a CollectionChanged event:

    public class ReadOnlyObservableCollectionWithCollectionChangeNotifications : ReadOnlyObservableCollection
{
    public ReadOnlyObservableCollectionWithCollectionChangeNotifications(ObservableCollection list)
        : base(list)
    {
    }

    event System.Collections.Specialized.NotifyCollectionChangedEventHandler CollectionChanged2
    {
        add { CollectionChanged += value; }
        remove { CollectionChanged -= value; }
    }
}

This has worked well for me before.