Jan 24 2006

Sharping like a beer

Category: .Net — Rory Primrose @ 20:21

The first thing I seem to have been bitten by with my adventures into C# from my VB comfort zone is accessing control events from the form designer.

Following my VB instincts, I double click a control to get its default event in the code file, or select an event in the code file that already exists for the control. I go to the top right dropdown list to change to the event I want and.... whoa. This list doesn't display all the possible events for the control. Instead, it displays a list of all the objects, methods, properties and other definitions for the class.

So here is the situation. I have a listbox that I want to wire up dragdrop events for. Is there an easy way to do this with the designer view or the code file view? Perhaps C# people are so keyboard loving that prefer to type in the method declaration and event handler manually?

Probably I am just missing the obvious but it is hard to stop thinking like a beer.

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Eddie de Bear Eddie de Bear says:
Monday, January 23, 2006 at 4:36 PM

Rory,

In the designer, select the control and open up the propeties window. On the property window is a Botton that lists all the events for the selected control. Just double click on the Event you want to handle and the designer does all the rest... Easy.

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Geoff Appleby Geoff Appleby says:
Monday, January 23, 2006 at 6:13 PM

There's a second option too.  In the forms constructor type (in my test case i had a button on the form):
button1.Click +=

Intellisense kicks in and says press tab to complete the line - you get the eventhandler line added. Then press tab again and it creates the method signature.

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Rory Primrose Rory Primrose says:
Monday, January 23, 2006 at 7:42 PM

Sweet, thanks boys.

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