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With an explicit event, you need to provide your own backing store – either a delegate field or something like EventHandlerList. The current code is recursive. Try:

private EventHandler itemsProcessed;
public event EventHandler ItemsProcessed
{
    add
    {
        itemsProcessed-= value;
        itemsProcessed+= value;
    }

    remove
    {
        itemsProcessed-= value;
    }
}

Then (and noting I’m being a little cautious about the “about to turn null” edge-case re threading):

var snapshot = itemsProcessed;
if(snapshot != null) snapshot(this, EventArgs.Empty);

With more recent C# versions, this can be simplified:

itemsProcessed?.Invoke(this, EventArgs.Empty);

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