Silverlight Events

Just a short post about Silverlight events.

When writing Silverlight apps using Orcas and Silverlight 1.1, there are 2 key ways that you can hook up events.

The first way is to specify the event directly in the Xaml:

<canvas mouseleftbuttonup="ClickMeButton_MouseLeftButtonUp" background="Red" height="30" width="100" name="ClickMeButton">

The second way (as demonstrated in the ScottGu video on the Silverlight.net site) is to do it in code:

ClickMeButton.MouseEnter += new MouseEventHandler(ClickMeButton_MouseLeftButtonUp);

In both cases there would be a resultant method to deal with the event like in all event driven applications.

I think most people are aware of the latter approach because of the video but the former approach also lets you keep your code behind a bit more tidy.

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