Why are examples overly complicated?

This is one of many instances where the principle being explained is lost in an unnecessarily complicated code example. In this case, we want to show "How to raise base class events in derived classes", as the title says. All you need for this is a base class with a function that invokes the event, and the derived class that calls that function. That's it, no need for custom EventArgs, multiple derived classes and a contrived example of how to use the derived class, all that stuff just gets in the way.

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