In Parts I , II , and III , I talked about the slight changes that we made to field like events, to the += and -= event accessor operators, and how this may affect you. Just so we’re all on the same page, I want to consolidate here a list of Dos and Don’ts so you know how to use these language features...

In the last two posts, I revealed that field-like events in C# 4 have a better synchronization story , and that we changed += and -= in a kind of subtle way to protect you, in many cases, from the semantic differences this introduces between C# 3 and C# 4. Now I’m here to tell you about some more...

Last time , we saw that the field-like event accessor code that the C# compiler emits has changed. And it’s better in a few ways because we’ve banished the locking code that we used to emit. There are a few questions that came up in the comments, and two of them in particular are probably as straightforward...

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything about the way the compiler generates field-like events, and I have some good news. We fixed them! Well, anyway, we changed them, and I believe that in C# 4, they are better than they used to be. Read this old post to refresh yourself, if you care. The...

My last post was many months ago, and I've been pretty busy here since then. Nobody who starts a blog means to neglect it, even though mostly that's what happens. I won't let it go for so long again. =) Anyway, we were talking about events . Field-like events in particular, and the nastiness of their...

Hi all, my name's Chris Burrows, and I'm a developer on the C# Compiler team here in Redmond. I'll introduce myself further in a subsequent post, but I just want to start off with a note that has at least a little substance. So let's talk about C# events as they've existed for a long time now, and...