C # Event Not Handled

Question

I am learning event handling in C #, creating an application using the iTunes COM API. I have a method that should start when iTunes stops playing the song, but the method is never called when I fire the event in the application by clicking the Stop / Pause button.

EDIT . Based on dboarman's answer, I removed the while loop. Now the event is being processed, but only if I restart iTunes before running PlayPlaylist (). If the second time I launched PlayPlaylist (), the stop event will no longer be fired / processed.

void trayIcon_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    PlayPlaylist();
}

public static void PlayPlaylist()
{

    itapp = new iTunesApp();
    itapp.OnPlayerStopEvent += 
        new _IiTunesEvents_OnPlayerStopEventEventHandler(itapp_OnPlayerStopEvent);

    lastPlaylist = itapp.LibraryPlaylist;

    itapp.Play();            
}

static void itapp_OnPlayerStopEvent(object iTrack)
{
    Debug.WriteLine("Stop Event fired");
    //...
}

Updated source at Pastebin here (lines 59-68 are relevant).

Spec: Genius (iTunes Genius ). StopEvent .

Answer 1

itapp ,

System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ReleaseComObject(itapp);

iTunes, . - = , .

Answer 2

, :

public static void PlayPlaylist()
{
    itapp = new iTunesApp();
    itapp.OnPlayerStopEvent += new _IiTunesEvents_OnPlayerStopEventEventHandler(itapp_OnPlayerStopEvent);

    lastPlaylistID = itapp.LibraryPlaylist.playlistID;
    Debug.WriteLine("Last playlist:");
    Debug.WriteLine(lastPlaylistID);

    itapp.Play();

    while (true)
    {
        System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(1000);
    }
}

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. - :

static List<myTrack> Tracks;

public static void PlayPlaylist() 
{
    itapp = new iTunesApp();
    itapp.OnPlayerStopEvent += new _IiTunesEvents_OnPlayerStopEventEventHandler(itapp_OnPlayerStopEvent);

    foreach (myTrack track in Tracks)
    {
    // perform play
    }
}

, .

Answer 3

, , ManualResetEvent.

private ManualResetEvent _resetEvent;

public void PlayPlaylist() 
{
    _resetEvent = new ManualResetEvent(false);
    itapp = new iTunesApp();
    itapp.OnPlayerStopEvent += new _IiTunesEvents_OnPlayerStopEventEventHandler(itapp_OnPlayerStopEvent);


    // Block until the resetEvent has been Set() or
    // give up waiting after 5 minutes
    _resetEvent.WaitOne(1000*5*60); 
}

itapp_OnPlayerStopEvent() : _resetEvent.Set();

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Answer 4

, , , - (.. iTunes ). ? iTunes API, ; , .

private bool stopIt;

private void trayIcon_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (!stopIt)
    {
        PlayPlaylist();
        stopIt = true;
    }
    else
    {
        StopPlaylist();
        stopIt = false;
    }
}

public static void PlayPlaylist()
{

    itapp = new iTunesApp();
    itapp.OnPlayerStopEvent += 
        new _IiTunesEvents_OnPlayerStopEventEventHandler(itapp_OnPlayerStopEvent);

    lastPlaylist = itapp.LibraryPlaylist;

    itapp.Play();            
}

public static void StopPlaylist()
{
    itapp.Stop(); // don't know if this is the right method name

    // unhook the event so the reference object can free if necessary.
    itapp.OnPlayerStopEvent -= 
        new _IiTunesEvents_OnPlayerStopEventEventHandler(itapp_OnPlayerStopEvent);
}

private static void itapp_OnPlayerStopEvent(object iTrack)
{
    Debug.WriteLine("Stop Event fired");
    // ...
}