In your example, anyone can fire the FooChanged.
When declared as an event, only instances of Foo can fire it, while
registering is still supported through += and -=.
// Ryan
On Feb 20, 2008 1:47 PM, James Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A colleague has been writing code and has missed the "event" keyword from his
> event definitions
>
> Eg:
>
> public class Foo {
> public EventHandler FooChanged;
> }
>
> He appears to be able to subscribe to these "events" in the normal fashion:
>
> x.FooChanged += new EventHandler(blah)
>
>
> He asked me what difference the event keyword made and I said I thought it
> was to do with attaching multiple subscribers, but I must admit I was
> surprised that the "+=" syntax above worked. I would have expected that
> since EventHandler is a delegate he would have had to have used just a normal
> assignment instead to make it work.
>
>
> Can anyone give me the real story here?
>
>
> Best wishes
> James
>
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