Shall event works without delegates?

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I know events uses delegates in bottom.

But shall event works without delegates?

Posted 16-Sep-13 0:55am

Sandesh M Patil

Updated 16-Sep-13 1:29am

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Sriram Bala 16-Sep-13 7:36am

Hi,
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596521073.do?cmp=af-orm-msdn-book-9780596521066 - Chapter 17. Events in C# are implemented with delegates. The publishing class defines a delegate. The subscribing class does two things: first, it creates a method that matches the signature of the delegate, and then it creates an instance of that delegate type encapsulating that method. When the event is raised, the subscribing class's methods are invoked through the delegate.
Happy reading.
Sriram.B

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2013-09-16T02:18:00

Basically, no.

Delegates are basically references to functions, and without some mechanism like that, events could not function, and we would be back to the older Windows way of manually processing a message loop.
There is a lot written about how events work, but there is a good description here: http://www.ikriv.com/dev/dotnet/delegates.html[^] and Events and event handling in C#[^] is helpfull (if rather old) as well.