Overloading event parameters

[Zeb]

Well, it's been a long time, but I'm back...

Obviously, I've done a lot of searching and experimenting but I'm having no luck. I have a workaround, but it's ugly, and I HATE ugly code

Problem is, I am using events to expose functionality, but I want to be able to overload the parameters that can be used when raising said events.

i.e. I want developers using this functionality to be able to call the functionality in different ways:
RaiseEvent(string, int, int);
RasieEvent(xmldocument, int, int);
etc, etc.

I've come up with two ways around my problem:
1. Expose the events through an overloaded static methods, and then raise specific events that way (i.e. RaiseEvent1, RaiseEvent2)
2. Pass in a "EventParameters" style object.

The first is ugly. The second will not be liked by my boss - he's stressed consistently that the interface to this functionality should be as simple as possible, and even adding "new EventParameters()" will draw his ire.

To show what I want with code, basically I want to be able to go

private delegate void MyEventDelegate(String str, int num, int pos);
private delegate void MyEventDelegate(XmlDocument doc, int num, int pos);
public static event MyEventDelegate RaiseEvent;

Obviously that syntax won't work, but I hope it expresses what I mean. And yes, I understand that multiple handlers, etc would need to be coded.

Is it possible to overload events? It doesn't seem to be, but no harm in asking

edit: VS2005 btw. .Net 2.0