Visual Basic® .NET Unleashed

Using the EventHandler Delegate

The most common delegate is EventHandler. A delegate is defined by preceding the name and signature of a procedure with the keyword Delegate. Applying this to what we know about the EventHandler delegate, we see that in Visual Basic .NET we can write a statement similar to the following:

Delegate Sub EventHandler(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs)

This statement identifies a type name EventHandler as a delegate that takes an Object and System.EventArgs parameters. (If you've written or seen a function pointer in C/C++ or defined a procedural type in Object Pascal, this syntax will appear similar to you.) The delegate EventHandler is a type. Variables of type EventHandler can be the AddressOf any subroutine ...