Question

I’ve done some reading on SO, but didn’t find the answer to my question.

As @Canavar points out in his answer there are 2 ways to subscribe to an event:

Declarative:

<asp:Button runat="server" ID="myButton" OnClick="myButton_Click" />  

Code Behind:

myButton.Click += new EventHandler(myButton_Click);

I subscribe to events declaratively, but hardly ever use the “sender” and EventArgs in default event handlers. Most of the time I end up calling a method from the event handler.

Would it be better to subscribe to events using a delegate?

myButton.Click += delegate{DoStuff();};

Let me know if I’m over complicating things, and should stick to declarative event subscription, and calling my DoStuff() method from default event handler.

Answer 1

Your handler needs to match the event’s specified params. If you use a delegate you will just be defining the same thing. Discarding the params seems like a waste since you might need them in the future for some reason. I can’t think of any good reason to not want the parameters.

And an event handler is a delegate already 🙂