it's bit weird to be honest. VS will declare them private and my code works with them being private as well

i ripped this out of my cuirrent project and this code does fire okay

private void InitializeComponent()
{ 
          this.btnHomePage.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.btnHomePage_Click);
}


private void btnHomePage_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
	Response.Write("Done");
}

try making a new page in a new project. VS does get it's knickers in a twist sometimes, like when you drop a control on the form, can see the declaration in the CodeBehind but can't reference it in IntelliSense