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I've been learning some new features of ASP.NET beyond my current level of comfort, and I'm trying to figure out exactly how custom events can fit in, from a design standpoint. I know how they work, and the observer/subscriber pattern, but it seems that custom events aren't talked about much. It seems like an entire app could be built from registering events and responses all over the place, and yet, we see more controller-type classes that fire bits of code off in a predetermined pattern...it's OOP, and yet still sort of procedural. I've been learning some new features of ASP.NET