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Why do event arguments derive from EventArgs?

I just found myself creating a new EventArgs to go with a custom event handler in C# and I remembered the standard advice of “always derive your event args classes from System.EventArgs”. The thing is, I have no idea why you would want to do this. I don’t see any value in dealing with things in terms of the base class, and it doesn’t provide any features, so why bother?

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