Question

In Windows Forms projects, why does the designer by default use the Friend WithEvents attributes in VB.NET and private ones in C#?

For example, in a form.designer. file:

.cs

private Label Label1;

.vb

Friend WithEvents Label1 as Label;

For WithEvents, it is more or less clear (for using Handles, apparently). But why Friend in Visual Basic and private in C#?

Answer 1

Friend is used for compatibility with older Visual Basic code, where normally a control was used outside the form which contained it.
In C# there isn’t that necessity.

private is a better solution, for new code.