VS 2005 C#, OnClick issue with copied Button.

[DavidKnight]

I'm a VB.NET developer trying to wotk in the C# environment. I ran into a funny situation that I have not run into while working in a VB webform.

I copy and paste an existing Standard.Button "Button1" in Design view and endup with the follow HTML Source code:

<form id="form1" runat="server">
<div>

<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" OnClick="Button1_Click" Style="z-index: 100; left: 276px; position: absolute; top: 15px" Text="Button" />

<asp:Button ID="Button2" runat="server" OnClick="Button1_Click" Style="z-index: 100; left: 278px; position: absolute; top: 55px" Text="Button" />

</div>
</form>

Why does the Copied Button "Button2" have its OnClick event set to "Button1_Click"? What am I missing? Do I have to check each time I copy an object in Design View?

This seems to be a major difference from VB to C# in the handling of Button objects. The VB environment handles the OnClick in the code behind. (OnClick in VB isn't even available on the HTML side.) Where in C# it does the OnClick in the HTML and not in the code behind.

Thanks in advance for the help;
David

 

[jmeckley]

this is by design the only thing that much change is the id of the control so VS does this for you.

if you don't want to wire the events to the control in markup (personally i can't stand it) then you can wire them up in the Init event

Button1.Click += DoSomething;
Button2.Click += DoSomethingelse;

where you define the event handlers DoSomething and DoSomethingelse

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.