simple,short question

[Amr M K]

Iam very good in OOP but ... why Event of controls in asp.net defined as protected

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[kubben]

I would guess it is because they didn't want anyone overriding them. Ben

[badgrs]

I'm pretty sure they don't necessarily have to be, thats just the way VS adds them in, no reason they couldn't be public (they can't be private as the page that ends up as a subclass of your code-behind has to access them).

[Christian Graus]

A page class instance exists only for a single postback. As it has no persistence, nothing external is ever going to access the event, unless it's in a control, but the fact is, it cannot be private ( as the aspx is turned into a class DERIVED from the code behind ), and it shouldn't be public ( no external class should be calling an event handler )

Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "I am working on a project that will convert a FORTRAN code to corresponding C++ code.I am not aware of FORTRAN syntax" ( spotted in the C++/CLI forum )