With the introduction of Generics in the CLR, why is it that the first
parameter of the EventHandler delegate is of Type Object and not a
Generic Type?

Since everytime we want a reference to the object that raised the event
we always have to cast the object to its native type befoe we use it.

So, I was expecting that in .NET 2.0 the signature for this delegate
would be

EventHandler<TSender, TEventArgs>

Since this is the benefit that Generics gives us.

Anyone have any suggestions to the reasons why this was not done?

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