How do I make an Event in the Usercontrol and have it handled in the Main Form?

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You need to create an event handler for the user control that is raised when an event from within the user control is fired. This will allow you to bubble the event up the chain so you can handle the event from the form.

When clicking Button1 on the UserControl, i’ll fire Button1_Click which triggers UserControl_ButtonClick on the form:

User control:

[Browsable(true)] [Category("Action")] 
[Description("Invoked when user clicks button")]
public event EventHandler ButtonClick;

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    //bubble the event up to the parent
    if (this.ButtonClick!= null)
        this.ButtonClick(this, e);               
}

Form:

UserControl1.ButtonClick += new EventHandler(UserControl_ButtonClick);

protected void UserControl_ButtonClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    //handle the event 
}

Notes:

  • Newer Visual Studio versions suggest that instead of if (this.ButtonClick!= null) this.ButtonClick(this, e); you can use ButtonClick?.Invoke(this, e);, which does essentially the same, but is shorter.

  • The Browsable attribute makes the event visible in Visual Studio’s designer (events view), Category shows it in the “Action” category, and Description provides a description for it. You can omit these attributes completely, but making it available to the designer it is much more comfortable, since VS handles it for you.

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