>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 IntelliSenseWeird is right. I understood your example to be the norm. But in this case it didn't work and - being new to ASP.NET - I'm trying to figure out why. Thanks.