Static event tries to declare non static instance

Question

I am/was trying to create an event that my main form can subscribe to. This class will eventually be larger, it is for doing info/warning/error info to Windows event viewer (have not done that part yet) but it also sends to the form information. I have used events in many places, but this is the first time I am trying to make one in a static class. I didn't think there would be any issues, but I get this error "raiseEventtoForm: cannot declare instance members inside a static class."

All of my members are static- I am not sure why this is happening.

Am I not able to produce events in a static class? I can't find anything indicating I wouldn't be allowed to.

Edit: Updated delegate to not have static keyword.

public static class HABLAEvents
{
    public delegate void RaiseMessageEvent(string message, Color foreColor, Color backColor);
    public static event RaiseMessageEvent trigger = delegate { };
    public static void MessageEvent(string message, Color foreColor, Color backColor) { trigger(message, foreColor, backColor); }

    public static void raiseEventtoForm(string message, Color fc, Color bc)
    {
        MessageEvent(message, fc, bc);
    }
}

Edit: That same error "cannot declare instance members inside a static class" is also present for trigger and MessageEvent

Answer 1

here, take an example:

using System;

public static class Test
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        EventsClass.someDelegateEvent += func;
        EventsClass.Raise();

    }


    public static void func(int number){
        Console.WriteLine(number);
    }

}

public static class EventsClass
{
    public delegate void someDelegate(int num);

    public static event someDelegate someDelegateEvent;

    public static void Raise()
    {
        if (someDelegateEvent != null)
        someDelegateEvent(6);
    }
}