Does MSDN use wrong terminology when referring to events and their event handlers?!

Question

Hello,

I’ve noticed that on several occasions that MSDN uses “wrong” terminology when referring to events and their event handlers. For example:

The ProfileAutoSaving event is raised at the end of page execution if the ProfileManager.AutomaticSaveEnabled property is true. You can access the ProfileAutoSaving event of the ProfileModule class in the Global.asax file for your ASP.NET application using the Profile_ProfileAutoSaving global event

Why does the above quote describe Profile_ProfileAutoSaving as global event, when to my knowledge it is actually an event handler subscribed to ProfileAutoSaving event?!

thanx

Answer 1

Is it a global event because it's located in the Global.asax file? What's wrong about that?

Edit: I'm not sure what your distinction is between a "global event" and an "event handler." Those aren't mutually exclusive descriptions. Essentially, this is a global event handler.

Answer 2

The use of this terminology is specific to Global.asax, which has backwards compatibility features to make it similar to Global.asa from Classic ASP. Profile_ProfileAutoSaving is a global event in exactly the same way that Application_Error is a global event.