Why does nothing in WPF have a click event?

Question

This seems very strange to me.

I know through some adventurous inheritance you can convert most UIElements to a button, but it is a cumbersome way of implementing the most basic of of computer events

Answer 1

I think the most basic events are MouseDown and MouseUp which are available to every UIElement

Answer 2

The ButtonBase class certainly has a Click event. So has derived classes.

Answer 3

You can add RoutedEvents to your controls.

Here is an implementation example

Answer 4

use RoutedEvents event if you really need to use. Other wise use dependency property to register a Click event against your control and then do what ever you want to do.