Question

I’ve been trying figure out how to add a handler to a method using Codedom, but am not getting very far.

The method I want to reproduce via Codedom is:

Private Sub Startup() Handles btnStart.Click
    ''# Do work
End Sub

The method is easy enough to create with:

Dim StartupMethod As New CodeMemberMethod
StartupMethod.Name = "Startup"
StartupMethod.Attributes = MemberAttributes.Private

But I can’t figure out how to add the Handles btnStart.Click. I’ve looked at CodeAttachEventStatement, but this I don’t believe it can do a Handles on a method.

Does anyone know how to achieve this?

EDIT: The solution below works for VB, but does not work for C# because the handler is looking to handle an event rather than a method.

Answer 1

Handles is just a syntactic sugar vb.net offers you for your convenience.
Under the hood it is converted to:

AddHandler btnStart.Click, AddressOf Startup

So I think it won’t be possible. You should try to use the CodeAttachEvent statement instead

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.codedom.codeattacheventstatement.aspx

Another possibility is to use CodeSnippetTypeMember() as described here

Workaround for VB.NET partial method using CodeDom?