Why you need partial methods in c#? Can events be used to achieve the same goal?

Question

I was reading the book \"Apress Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C#\" and I came across partial methods, but I really don\'t understand what is the need for them.

Answer 1

Partial methods are defined at compile time, events at runtime. So they are different things.

Partial methods were brought to the picture to extend existing classes that you have no control over (part of the framework or auto-generated)

Hope this helps