Browsing through some online tutorials, I've been tryingto add a custom event
to an app I'm developing but I'm having a little problem.

Simplifying the code down to the following (a form with a button that fires
the event):

namespace CustomEvent
{
       public delegate void MyEventHandler(object sender, MyEventArgs e);

       /// <summary>
       /// Summary description for Form1.
       /// </summary>
       public class Form1 : System.Windows.Forms.Form
       {
               public event MyEventHandler MyEvent;

               protected virtual void OnMyEvent(MyEventArgs e)
               {
                       MyEvent(this, e);
               }

<< snip template form code >>

               private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
               {
                       OnMyEvent(new MyEventArgs("Fred"));
               }
       }

       public class MyEventArgs: EventArgs
       {
               private string name;
               public MyEventArgs(string name)
               {
                       this.name = name;
               }
               public string Name
               {
                       get {return name;}
               }
       }
}

The problem I'm having is that the MyEvent(this, e); call fails in
OnMyEvent(...) with the following error:

"An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in
CustomEvent.exe

Additional information: Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong?

Cheers in advance
Ant