Visual Basic® .NET Unleashed

Chapter 8. Adding Events

In This Chapter

• Understanding Events and Event Handlers

• Creating Event Handlers in the Windows Form Designer

• Creating Event Handlers in the Code Editor

• Creating Runtime Event Handlers

• Creating Event Handlers in the WebForms Designer

• Declaring and Raising Events

• Summary

Your programs receive feedback from users via events. Events are an important aspect of Windows programming. On the object-oriented side of the fence are classes that contain properties and methods. Without events, Windows applications would have no way to respond to external occurrences such as key presses and mouse clicks, or to repaint the screen. Events can be supported in structured languages, but all Windows programming languages need events to respond ...