How do static events compare to non-static events in C#?

Question

I just realized static events exist - and I\'m curious how people use them. I wonder how the relative comparison holds up to static vs. instance methods. For instance, a s

Answer 1

Much of OOP can be thought of in terms of message passing.

A method call is a message from the caller to the callee (carrying the parameters) and a message back with the return value.

An event is a message from the source to the subscriber. There are thus potentially two instances involved, the one sending the message and the one receiving it.

With a static event, there is no sending instance (just a type, which may or may not be a class). There still can be a recipient instance encoded as the target of the delegate.