hi there everybody
I am a beginner .aspx developer. I keep seeing
around but i am unsure of what it is doing.
could somebody please explain? I can never see any use of either Sender or E within the code.

Cheers
Andy

What you are seeing are two arguments that an event handler accepts. The first (sender as Object) is the object on which the event has occurred (a button in a button click event).

The second is of type EventArgs or a derived type. This argument depends on the event and contains event related data. For example, a button click event accepts the System.EventArgs type. A paint event accepts the System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs type.

J

and now it all becomes clear.

so if i under stand you correctly, sender takes the ID of the object (eg button1) and E As eventargs takes "doThis" if the asp button looked like

<asp:button id="button1" OnClick="doThis" runat="server" />

Am i correct?
Andy

Sender is an object that contains a reference to the object that raised the event. So you could write:

CType(sender, Button).Text = "Text Changed"

and change the text of your "button1".

EventArgs represents any other arguments that need to be passed from the sending object to the event handler. An example of this is the Form.Closing event. It passes an instance of CancelEventArgs to the event handler which can be used to cancel the form's closing. So if you had:

Private Sub Form1_Closing(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles MyBase.Closing
        e.Cancel() = True
End Sub

the form would not close.

HTH

J