How do I fire an event in VB.NET code?

Question

I have a form that has a start button (to allow users to run the processes over and over if they wish), and I want to send a btnStart.Click event when the form

Answer 1

You are trying to implement a bad idea. Actually, you have to make a subroutine to accomplish these kind of tasks.

Private Sub btnStart_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles btnStart.Click

      call SeparateSubroutine()

End Sub

private sub SeparateSubroutine()

   'Your code here.

End Sub

And then whereever you want to call the btnStart's click event, just call that SeparateSubroutine. This should be a correct way in your case.

Answer 2

Steps in involved in raising an event is as follows,

Public Event ForceManualStep As EventHandler
RaiseEvent ForceManualStep(Me, EventArgs.Empty)
AddHandler ForceManualStep, AddressOf ManualStepCompletion

Private Sub ManualStepCompletion(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)        


End Sub

So in your case, it should be as below,

btnStart_Click(btnStart, EventArgs.Empty)

Answer 3

You should send a button as sender into the event handler:

btnStart_Click(btnStart, New EventArgs())

Answer 4

Just Call

btnStart.PerformClick()