why the keyword 'event' is required?

[Bae,Hyun-jik]

I am a newbie to C#.
During studying 'event' keyword, I erased the keyword 'event' and found that
its behavior doesn't change. For example:

public event AlarmEventHandler Alarm;

and

public AlarmEventHandler Alarm;

I don't know what is the difference from 'event' and no keyword.
Please reply. Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Hyun-jik Bae

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

I am a newbie to C#.
During studying 'event' keyword, I erased the keyword 'event' and found that
its behavior doesn't change. For example:

public event AlarmEventHandler Alarm;

and

public AlarmEventHandler Alarm;

I don't know what is the difference from 'event' and no keyword.
Please reply. Thanks in advance.

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/faq/#event.delegate

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

if you use event you are declaring an event , this event will use the
delegate AlarmEventHandler

if you do not use it you are declaring a variable of type AlarmEventHandler
, if you comes from a C background this is like a pointer to a function.

in any way they are two completely different things.


cheers,