Why do we need the “event” keyword while defining events?

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Field-like events and public fields of delegate types look similar, but are actually very different.

An event is fundamentally like a property – it’s a pair of add/remove methods (instead of the get/set of a property). When you declare a field-like event (i.e. one where you don’t specify the add/remove bits yourself) a public event is created, and a private backing field. This lets you raise the event privately, but allow public subscription. With a public delegate field, anyone can remove other people’s event handlers, raise the event themselves, etc – it’s an encapsulation disaster.

For more on events (and delegates) read my article on this topic. (At some point I need to update this for C# 4, which changes field-like events very slightly. The gist of it is still correct though.)

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