How wrong is it to create an event handler delegate with out the standard (Obj sender, EventArgs args) signature?

Question

I understand the benefits of using the standard MS event handler delegate signature as it allows you to easily expand on the information passed through the event with out breaki

Answer 1

You can do anything the wrong way if you're the only one who has to deal with it. But it's not a bad idea to learn standards and stick to them so that you keep good habits when you're working on code with others.

So I'll make you a deal. If you promise to do it the right way, I'll give you a code snippet that'll make it much less of a pain. Just put this in a .snippet file, and put that file in:

My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Code Snippets\Visual C#\My Code Snippets\
(or Visual Studio 2005 if applicable)

And here's the snippet; use it in VS by typing ev2Generic and hitting Tab:

  
    

      
      ev2Generic
      Code snippet for event handler and On method
      Kyralessa
      
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          type1
          Type of the first property in the EventArgs subclass.
          propertyType1
        
        
          arg1Name
          Name of the first argument in the EventArgs subclass constructor.
          property1Name
        
        
          property1Name
          Name of the first property in the EventArgs subclass.
          Property1Name
        
        
          type2
          Type of the second property in the EventArgs subclass.
          propertyType2
        
        
          arg2Name
          Name of the second argument in the EventArgs subclass constructor.
          property2Name
        
        
          property2Name
          Name of the second property in the EventArgs subclass.
          Property2Name
        
        
          eventName
          Name of the event
          NameOfEvent
        
      
      
         $eventName$;
            protected virtual void On$eventName$($eventName$EventArgs e)
            {
                var handler = $eventName$;
                if (handler != null)
                    handler(this, e);
            }]]>