Module 11:

Events

By

SRIRAM . B
Overview
 Events
 What is an event?
 How events work?
 Defining an event
 Handling an event
Events

 Events allow an object to notify other objects that a change has

occurred. The other objects can register an interest in an event,
and they will be notified when the event occurs.

 How Events work?

 Publisher raises an event to alert all interested objects
(subscribers)
 Subscriber provides a method to be called when the event is
raised

 Defining an event

event mydelegate myevent; (To be declared within the class)

Events
 Subscribing to an Event
obj.myevent = new mydelegate(obj.my);
obj.myevent += new mydelegate(obj.my1);
 Notifying
obj.myevent();
 Passing parameters to events
 Derive a class from EventArgs
 Have the necessary get methods
 Create the delegate with 2 parameters one is the
sender and the other is the eventargs
Handling an event

 To handle an event we need to subscribe to the

event by providing an event handler function whose
signature matches that of delegate specified for use
with the event.
Example - Events
using System;
using System.Timers;
namespace events
{
public class EventHandler2
{
static int counter = 0;
static string str = "STG INTERNATIONAL
LIMITED";
public static void WriteChar(object o,
ElapsedEventArgs e)
{
Console.WriteLine(str[counter++ % str.Length]);
}
Example - Events

static void Main(string[] arg)

{
Timer tm = new Timer(100);
tm.Elapsed += new
ElapsedEventHandler(WriteChar);
tm.Start();
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
Session Ends
Exercise
Relax