What are the differences between delegates and events?

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Sean Chambers picture Sean Chambers · Aug 27, 2008 · Viewed 127.3k times · Source

What are the differences between delegates and an events? Don't both hold references to functions that can be executed?

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mmcdole picture mmcdole · Aug 27, 2008

An Event declaration adds a layer of abstraction and protection on the delegate instance. This protection prevents clients of the delegate from resetting the delegate and its invocation list and only allows adding or removing targets from the invocation list.

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