Question

This is a bit of a Visual Studio question. I feel with all the helpful Intellisense there should be something to assist but I can’t seem to find it.

I made a page with a codebehind in ASP.NET C# in VS2008 and it autogenerates a PageLoad event method, of course. Well, what if I want to add methods for more events besides PageLoad? I would think there would be some list on the Foo.aspx page of possible method event handlers to add. Aren’t there more maybe like PageInit, PageDispose, (or equiv) etc…? Where can I find these?

EDIT – I can of course look up the method names in the api. I’m looking for a handy shortcut to add these in Visual Studio. If it generates one, can’t it make others?

Answer 1

• In the solution explorer, right click the page and select “View component designer” from the context menu
• open the properties panel/window (press F4)
• now click the yellow arrow/flash icon and you will see a list of all page events
• double-click the event for which you want to add a handler

I’m pretty sure there was another way (starting from the designer view), but I can’t reproduce it.

I usually do not use the page event handlers, instead I override the corresponding methods (e.g. OnLoad instead of Page_Load). To implement one of these overrides, you can simply type “override” in the code-behind and press space to get a list of methods that you can override.