Question

I have multiple layers in an application and i find myself having to bubble up events to the GUI layer for doing status bar changes, etc . . I find myself having to write repeated coded where each layer simply subscribes to events from the lower layer and then in the call back simply raise an event up the chain. Is there a more efficient way of doing this?

Answer 1

If all you’re doing is firing an event handler from another event handler, you can cut out the middle man and hook the event handlers directly in the add/remove blocks for the event.

For example, if you have a UserControl with a ‘SaveButtonClick’ event, and all you want to do when is call the event handler when the ‘SaveButton’ on your UserControl is clicked, you can do this:

public event EventHandler SaveButtonClick {     add { this.SaveButton.Click += value; }     remove { this.SaveButton.Click -= value; } } 

Now you don’t need any code to fire the SaveButtonClick event – it will automatically be fired when the SaveButton.Click event is raised (ie when someone clicks that button).