RoutedEvent Class
[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]
Represents a routed event to the Windows Phone event system.
Assembly: System.Windows (in System.Windows.dll)
The RoutedEvent type exposes the following members.
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | Equals(Object) | Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
 | Finalize | Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetHashCode | Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.) |
| GetType | Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.) |
| MemberwiseClone | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.) |
| ToString | Returns the string representation of the routed event. (Overrides Object::ToString().) |
In WPF, the RoutedEvent class holds additional information, such as the routing strategy. In Windows Phone, a routed event does not require this information. Only the bubbling route event routing technique is supported in Windows Phone, and the event identifiers are not required for trigger usages because trigger usages are limited to the Loaded case. Therefore, in Windows Phone a routed event is generally identified by name in XAML usages, which does not require the identifier field.
The primary usage of the RoutedEvent class in Windows Phone is to support an event handling technique whereby you can invoke handlers on routed events even if the Handled property of event data is true. This situation exists because control class implementations might handle input events as part of their logic. Specific instances of controls might still want to handle such events in uncommon scenarios. To use this technique, you call the UIElement::AddHandler method on the control instance, declaring handledEventsToo as true, and providing the static RoutedEvent identifier of the relevant event as the routedEvent parameter. This entails that only events where a RoutedEvent identifier exists in the class definition can be used in this way. For more information, see UIElement::AddHandler or Events for Windows Phone 8.