VB.NET: DoubleClick event for a Button
Spanish version / Versión en Español It's not everyday that you need to handle a double click event for a Button, but I happened to stumble upon a case. Suppose you have a Grid where the icons are buttons (in my case, those were image thumbnails, and so I intended to have the user double click a thumbnail in order to load the associated image). That led me to the need of handling the double click event for those Buttons. Now, .NET exposes the DoubleClick event for a Button, but it doesn't get fired for some obscure reason (Defined as a no-op?). Therefore, a workaround is to handle the more general MouseDown event instead, and consider the case where two clicks where made: Private Sub Button1_MouseDown(ByVal sender As System.Object, _ ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) _ Handles Button1.MouseDown If e.Clicks = 2 Then MessageBox.Show("The button was double-clicked.") End If End Sub ...