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KulaGGin
KulaGGin

Reputation: 1233

How to automatically change names of event handlers for a control after renaming it?

Let's say there's a Windows Forms App and there's a button called button1.

I double click on a button, it creates an event handler called private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e). Then I rename this button from button1 to myButton.

I would like to make IDE to rename all event handlers for this button from button1_ to myButton_ accordingly and also rename all references it can find in a solution to these event handlers.

I understand it can probably introduce problems in some specific cases, but that's what I currently do manually: rename event handler in the designer, it creates new handler in the code, then delete empty handler and rename original handler. And repeat for every handler for this control.

I would like to automate it with a single shortcut "Rename all event handlers and references to these event handlers for this control".

I hope it makes sense what I want to achiever here. Is there a way to do this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 671

Answers (1)

HaveSpacesuit
HaveSpacesuit

Reputation: 3994

All you have to do is rename the event handler in the code.

  • In Form1.cs, find button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
  • Place your cursor in the method name and press F2 (or Edit > Refactor > Rename...)
  • Highlight button1 and change it to myButton.

This will update the reference on the form and all other places in the code which reference the event handler.

Upvotes: 2

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