asp.net event handler not firing

Question

I've been looking for a solution to this for several hours now and cannot find a solution.

The Scenario:

• I have a masterpage baseclass (called basemaster)
• All of my master pages inherit from basemaster
• basemaster defines an event 'Public Event HandleClickEvent As EventHandler'
• I have a masterpage named master1
• master1 defines an event handler 'Public Shadows Event HandleClickEvent As EventHandler'
• master1 has a user control named usr1
• usr1 has a button that raises event ButtonClicked when clicked
• I have a page (thePage) that uses master1
• thePage has a button click event handler that it registers like so: 'AddHandler Master.HandleClickEvent, AddressOf HandleTheClick'

• master1 has code something like:

  Protected Sub Usr1_ButtonClicked(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Usr1.ButtonClicked RaiseEvent HandleClickEvent(sender, e) End Sub

• when thePage loads I see it register the handler on master1

• when the button is clicked, Usr1_ButtonClicked is fired and I step through the RaiseEvent but HandleClickEvent on thePage is never reached.

I think I'm doing something stupid. I would appreciate some help.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Does the event on your master page class need to be an actual event handler? You should be able to just make it a public method and access it from your page (or user control) event handler like this:

Page.Master.MyPublicMasterPageMethod()

To call a method on your content page from your master page you could use VB's CallByName method: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/22x2chfx.aspx