Initializing events with initializer syntax

Question

I often want to write something like this:

new Form
{
    Text = \"Caption\",
    Controls =
    {
        new Button { Text = \"Button 1\", Click = (s, e) =         


        

Answer 1

I cannot see any reason why they could not have provided this small teaspoon of sugar, I guess they just didn't!

There is already quite a lot of syntactic sugar involved in events, if simply declare an event on a class without providing your own implementation, the compiler is providing a delegate backing field for you, plus add / remove 'method' implementations. ALso, when you add an event handler, the compiler uses delegate inference, allowing you to simply point to a method, rather than create a delegate that represents the method.

Interestingly, Mono C# does allow you to add an event handler in an object initializer:

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2009/Jul-27-1.html

Time to switch to Mono ;-)