Events

COM+ provides a service for connecting objects that transmit information with those that want to receive this information. This service can be essential in today's distributed environments. When designing components for enterprise applications, it's just not possible to know all the external or internal objects with which your new class will need to interact. Therefore, it is important to anticipate the types of access to your object's events in which other objects will have interest. The loosely coupled event model creates a programming paradigm of event publishers and event subscribers that know nothing of one another at their time of inception.

Loosely Coupled Event Model

The term publisher describes any component that fires events. ...

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