Chapter 18. Events

In This Chapter

• The Two Sides of Delegates 834

• A Reactive Application 835

• How Events Work 843

• Raising Events, the Correct Way 845

• Add and Remove Accessors 847

• Detach Your Event Handlers 852

• Recommended Event Patterns 861

• Case Study: INotifyProperty Interfaces and UI Programming 871

• Countdown, the GUI Way 882

• Modern Approaches to Reactive Programming 888

Fully loaded with a bag of knowledge about delegates, we’re now in a great position to start learning about one of their direct applications: events. In Chapter 17, during our examination of asynchronous delegate invocation, we already hinted at the difference between interactive and reactive programming. Events are clearly a good fit for the latter category, ...

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