Clearly distinguish between "subscribing to an existing event with an event handler" and "raising an event"

[zspitz]

As in much of OOP, there are two sides to events:

1. class design -- declaring the event, and raising it within the class
2. event consumption -- subscribing to the event

This article doesn't clearly differentiate between those two sides.

Specifically, the subheadings ("Call an event handler using Handles and WithEvents" and "Call an event handler using AddHandler") are confusing. How does subscribing to an event handler qualify as "calling" the event handler? And raising the event is in any case done using RaiseEvent.

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• Content: How to call an event handler - Visual Basic
• Content Source: docs/visual-basic/programming-guide/language-features/procedures/how-to-call-an-event-handler.md
• Product: dotnet-visualbasic
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[BillWagner]

Thanks for raising this @zspitz

I've added it to our backlog to address.