Events in UserControl

Hi all, I am new to UserControls, and while developing my own control I found a problem with showing events of my control in the property grid at design time. If I have some events in my control I want to see them in Property grid and if I double-click that I want to have a handler, in the same way Microsoft does for its controls.

From stackoverflow

• They should automatically appear if I'm not mistaken. Make sure you've built your project though, or changes won't propagate to open designers. And make sure it's a public event too. (Private/protected events rightfully shouldn't show up because they're not accessible.)

  One thing you can do to make your user's design experience nicer is to do something like the following:

      [Description("This event is raised when the user presses the enter key while the control has focus."),
      Category("Key")]
      public event EventHandler EnterPressed;
  

  The "description" bit puts a nice message in the description panel of the property window. The "category" bit puts it in a certain category (the default is Misc. at the end).

  By the way, you haven't specified a language or environment, so the above may need to be modified if it's not C# in Visual Studio 2005+.

• I usually use this pattern, to create a custom event in UserControls:

      #region MyEvent CUSTOM EVENT
  
      protected virtual void OnMyEvent(MyEventEventArgs e)
      {
          if (MyEvent != null)
              MyEvent(this, e);
      }
  
      public delegate void MyEventHandler(object sender, MyEventEventArgs e);
      public event MyEventHandler MyEvent;
  
      public class MyEventEventArgs : EventArgs
      {
  
      }
  
      #endregion MyEvent CUSTOM EVENT
  

  This has the same naming convention of Microsoft events, you can fire OnMyEvent from inside your control, have custom EventArgs, handle MyEvent from other controls.