When you subscribe to an event in code, Visual Studio automatically completes the code after +=
and generates the appropriate event handler:
button.Click += new EventHandler(button_Click);
// ↑_____auto generated code_____↑
Notice how it explicitly creates the delegate instance: even though method groups are implicitly convertible to delegates since C# 2, the IDE behavior still hasn't changed in VS2010.
So I'd like to know, is there a way to generate code like this instead?
button.Click += button_Click;
EDIT
just to make things clear to everyone: the code above is not in a designer file (I wouldn't care which syntax is used if it was the case). It's the snippet that is triggered when you type +=
after an event name and press TAB
EDIT2
I reported this as a suggestion on Connect, you can vote for it if you also want the current behavior to be changed
The suggestion on Connect has been marked as fixed, so the new behavior should be included in the next public build of VS11.
EDIT: just checked, it is indeed included in the beta.