C# 5.0 Unleashed

A Reactive Application

Before we dive into the C# language feature called events, let’s see how far the observation from the previous two figures brings us by using bare-bone delegates to create a reactive application. To keep things simple, we continue our way in the good old world of console applications to implement a countdown mechanism that’s operated as follows:

The user sets the number of seconds to count down.

The user instructs the countdown mechanism to start.

The countdown raises an event after every elapsed second.

The countdown ...