Difference between event and delegate field

[Guest]

Hi everyone,

Given an delegate type as in

public delegate MyDelegate()

Does anyone know the difference between an event

public event MyDelegate MyEvent;

and a 'normal' delegate field

public MyDelegate MyEvent;

As far as I've understood, some client can subscribe to both of them using
the same syntax (MyEvent += new MyDelegate(...)) and all subscribers are
called using MyEvent().

So what's the difference (apart from a theoretical one) between the two
concepts?

Thank you for any clarification!

greetings
Martin

 

[Guest]

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Does anyone know the difference between an event
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Ok, I should have searched the newsgroup before ...

(see also
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dncscol/html/csharp04192001.asp)

Thank you anyway.

Martin