Visual Basic® .NET Unleashed

Chapter 9. Understanding Delegates

In This Chapter

• Using the EventHandler Delegate

• Reviewing Delegate Members

• Defining Delegates

• Passing Delegates as Arguments

• Multicasting Delegates

• Using Delegates Across Project Boundaries

• Summary

Visual Basic 6 provided an opportunity for us to become familiar with events as a dynamic aspect of Windows programming. From Chapter 8, you know that an event is an occurrence in your program, and an event handler is a procedure defined to respond to that occurrence.

To review, the event-handling mechanism works because procedures are effectively addresses. If we know the arguments that are passed to a procedure and have a procedure's address, we can invoke a procedure because this is how procedure invocation works internally. ...