Summary

Chapter 3 demonstrated how events are supported in Visual Basic .NET. There is no question whether we need events, event handlers, and delegates—Windows is an event-based operating system. The question is whether or not the event model should be accessible to Visual Basic .NET programmers. The answers is a resounding yes.

Visual Basic .NET supports visually associating events and handlers at design time. It also supports associating events and handlers programmatically. VB6 did not support the underlying mechanism for the event model: function pointers (procedural types).

Visual Basic .NET has complete access to the event model and the underlying technology. In this chapter you learned how to associate event handlers with events visually ...

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