Return a value from an Event — is there a Good Practice for this?

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It’s often awkward to return values from events. In practice, I’ve found it much easier to include a writable property on a set of custom EventArgs that is passed to the event, and then checked after the event fires — similar to Cancel property of the WinForms FormClosing event.

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