Events - Illustrated C# 2005 - page 357

Declaring an Event
The publisher must provide the event and the code to raise the event.
Creating an event is simple—it requires only a delegate type and a name. The syntax for
an event declaration is shown in the following code, which declares an event called Elapsed .
Notice the following about event Elapsed :

It is declared inside a class called MyTimerClass . ￿

￿ It accepts event handlers with the return type and signature matching the delegate type

EventHandler .

￿ It is declared public so that other classes and structs can register event handlers with it.

class MyTimerClass
{ Keyword Name of event
↓ ↓
public event EventHandler Elapsed;
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Delegate type

You can declare more than one event in a declaration statement by using a comma-
separated list. For example, the following statement declares three events.

public event EventHandler MyEvent1, MyEvent2, OtherEvent ;
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Three events

Events can also be static, by including the static keyword in the declaration, as shown in
the following code.

public static event EventHandler Elapsed;
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Keyword