C# - Events. Why would I use them?

I know this is sorta offtopic, but the general programming section is mainly german speaking - dont get me wrong, thats my native language, but when it comes to programming I dont even understand exceptions in my language..

My question is rather simple I guess:

Why would i ever your events?

I see no point for them to exist. I can do the same thing on variables by an simple get{} set{} accessor, and within methods, i can simply call another method.

Ofc there might be that thing with subscribing to multiple handlers and unsubscribing, but i can simply do a boolean check within my get / set. Unless im doing like 5 different things in them based on some condition, i´d have to write more code using events.

I hope someone could explain the benefits to me. I´ve been on codeproject and msdn for some time now but cant find a reason to use them. I know how to define them, how to implement them but i fail to understand the point of their existence.

Thanks in advance!

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I am not going to go into details, but how I see it is, that they are good at keeping layers detachable from each other.

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Okay, I read all of your Posts/Links and came to the conclusion, that there is no point for me to use them yet. I simply dont have any scenarios where it would benefit me enough to consider it.

Imho, delegates and events just kill readablilty.

Delegates can be very helpful. In fact, you'll see me using them in Project Phoenix's socket system. I use delegates as a replacement for pure virtual functions. Then, inheritance comes into play in initializing those delegates. Just one design idea, but there's a lot of uses for delegates. You can use delegates to point to functions outside a tree or other data structure, or store entire functions to memory in data structures using events. There really is a lot you can do with them.