If I'm not mistaken, that has the same semantics as the standard one line event definition, i.e.: public event EventHandler MyEvent; // Inside the clas

If I'm not mistaken, that has the same semantics as the standard one line event definition, i.e.: public event EventHandler MyEvent; // Inside the class, MyEvent is bound to a multicast delegate. // Outside the class, MyEvent is bound to an auto-generated add/remove mechanism. // So MyEvent can only be set to null or invoked from inside the class.