Allow overridable and overriding events
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Description
Given the following base class definition (in C#, since VB doesn't allow declaring virtual/overridable events, AFAICT):
```
public class Calculator
{
public virtual event EventHandler TurnedOn;
}
```
The following is perfectly valid in C#:
```
public class CalculatorProxy : Calculator
{
public override event EventHandler TurnedOn
{
add => // do something
remove => // do something
}
}
```
Yet the same cannot be achieved with VB, neither with an `Overrides Event...` nor a `Overrides Custom Event` or the like.
Even if declaring the `Overridable` event isn't allowed, for parity at least the `Overrides` custom event could look something like:
```
Public Class CalculatorProxy
Inherits Calculator
Public Overrides Custom Event TurnedOn As EventHandler
AddHandler(value As EventHandler)
` do something
End AddHandler
RemoveHandler(value As EventHandler)
` do something
End RemoveHandler
RaiseEvent(sender As Object, args As EventArgs)
` do something
End RaiseEvent
End Event
End Class
```
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