Simplest event delegate ever

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Introduction

Check out this simple event delegate code. First, you have a source which generates an event:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace eventDelegate
{
    class Source
    {
        public event EventHandler SomeEvent; 
        // this event is of type EventHandler, 
        // meaning it can notify any function whose signature is like the 
        // one of EventHandler EventHandler is the delegate

        public void RaiseEvent()
        {
            if (null != SomeEvent) // to avoid exceptions when event 
            {                      // delegate wiring is not done
                SomeEvent(this, null);
            }
        }
    }
}

Next, you have a receiver which is supposed to get a notification of the event:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace eventDelegate
{
    class Receiver
    {
        public void NotifyMe(object source, EventArgs e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("I am notified by "+source.GetType());
        }
    }
}

Then you have the main program which does the wiring:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace eventDelegate
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Source theSource = new Source();
            Receiver theReceiver = new Receiver();

            theSource.SomeEvent += new EventHandler(theReceiver.NotifyMe);

            theSource.RaiseEvent();
        }
    }
}

As simple as that. It can now be extended to include custom event data and therefore a new class inheriting from EventArgs and therefore ending up with a new delegate which can handle this new EventArgs.