Withevents VS Handles

[michaelrawi]

Supposed I want to create a button, and only need it's click event. Which one should I use:

dim withevents button1 as windows.forms.button

or

dim button1 as windows.forms.button
addhandler button1.click,addresof button1_click

Which is the best and why?

Thanks in advance

 

[michaelrawi]

Oh, I've look some of you have a fancy code tag with visual studio style / color. How can I do that ?

 

[snarfblam]

To make your VB code pretty, use the

 tags, and to make C# code look pretty use [CS] tags.

As for the difference between WithEvents and AddHandler, the only difference is that WithEvents does the wiring automatically. That means that if you declare a WithEvents variable, every time you assign an object to the variable, the handlers are automatically attatched and every time you remove an object from a variable (assign another object or assign Nothing to the variable) the handlers are removed. 

AddHandler/RemoveHandler gives you more control over how event handlers at attatched and removed, but if WithEvents suits your needs then that is probably your best bet because it requires a smaller amount of clearer code (but is harder to port to other languages).

Both methods basically compile down to the same thing.