Can I customize automatic event handler generation in Visual Studio?

Question

When you subscribe to an event in code, Visual Studio automatically completes the code after += and generates the appropriate event handler:

button.Click += new EventHandler(button_Click);
//              ↑_____auto generated code_____↑

Notice how it explicitly creates the delegate instance: even though method groups are implicitly convertible to delegates since C# 2, the IDE behavior still hasn't changed in VS2010.

So I'd like to know, is there a way to generate code like this instead?

button.Click += button_Click;

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EDIT
just to make things clear to everyone: the code above is not in a designer file (I wouldn't care which syntax is used if it was the case). It's the snippet that is triggered when you type += after an event name and press TAB

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EDIT2
I reported this as a suggestion on Connect, you can vote for it if you also want the current behavior to be changed

Answer 1

The suggestion on Connect has been marked as fixed, so the new behavior should be included in the next public build of VS11.

EDIT: just checked, it is indeed included in the beta.

Answer 2

Thanks for clarifying your question. Unfortunately, there isn't a way to configure or customize the event hookup code that is generated by the C# language service. To make matters worse, the Generate Method Stub feature won't work on an event hookup either -- though it should, and that is already fixed for the next release of Visual Studio.

Sorry that there isn't a better story for this particular feature. :-(

Answer 3

I use this extension for Visual Studio since a couple of years.