Raise button (or any control) click event manually. C#

Question

Can anyone tell me how to raise click event of button control (or for that matter for any event).

Platform: .net 2.0/3.0/3.5 Language: c# Domain: Windows Application, WinForms, etc.

Answer 1

You can use the Button.PerformClick method.

Answer 2

You can also look into Windows Accessibility or some UI automation framework that allows you to programmatically cause UI controls to respond to user gestures. If a control does not offer a way for its events to be programmatically triggered like PerformClick, you can derive from that control and expose a public method like PerformnXXX that when called internally invokes the event handlers subscribed to a particular event.

Answer 3

Maybe the solution is much more simple:

Maybe you don't really want your code "to click the button".
Do you just want to run the code which is behind the button from another place in the form?

If yes, put the code into a separate method (like "DoActionXXX") and call the method from the button and from everywhere else where you need it.