Asp.net button click event not working - asp.net

Question

I have a table which is populated programatically. Buttons are also created within the table as it's built. But i can't seem to find a way to get my button click event to work. It just doesn't seem to fire the event.
Any ideas please? I'm new to asp.net.
Here is the code:
using Parse;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
namespace FrogPointCMS
{
public partial class Beacons : System.Web.UI.Page
{
string merchantName;
string myMerchantID;
ParseObject merchantObject;
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
merchantName = Request.QueryString["user"];
myMerchantID = Request.QueryString["merchantID"];
// merchantObject = (ParseObject)Session["Merchant"]; // this works to retrieve objects from another screen
merchantObject = Global.merchantObjectStatic;
if (merchantObject != null)
{
getBeacons();
}
}
public async void getBeacons()
{
MyParseQueries myQuery = new MyParseQueries();
var myBeacons = await myQuery.getMyBeacons(); // get all the beacons
foreach (ParseObject beacon in myBeacons)
{
string aliasName = "";
string offerType = "N/A";
string offerTitle = "";
string offerDescription = "";
var merchantOb = beacon.Get<ParseObject>("merchantObjectId");
var merchantID = merchantOb.ObjectId;
if (merchantID == myMerchantID)
{
if (beacon.ContainsKey("contentObjectID"))
{
ParseObject content = beacon.Get<ParseObject>("contentObjectID"); // get the content object from parse.
offerType = content.Get<string>("offerType");
offerTitle = content.Get<string>("offerTitle");
offerDescription = content.Get<string>("offerDescription");
}
aliasName = beacon.Get<string>("aliasName");
//HERE IS THE PROBLEM AREA WITH THE BUTTON CREATION AND CLICK EVENT
Button assignNameBtn = new Button();
assignNameBtn = new Button();
assignNameBtn.ID = "assignName";
assignNameBtn.Text = "Assign Name";
assignNameBtn.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.assignNameBtn_Click);
// assignNameBtn.OnClientClick = "buttonClickTest2()"; //this works to trigger the java in the html page
// assignNameBtn.OnClientClick = "assignNameBtn_Click()";
Button assignActionBtn = new Button();
assignActionBtn.ID = "assignAction";
assignActionBtn.Text = "Assign Action";
var tr = new HtmlTableRow();
var checkBox = new HtmlTableCell();
var tableCellName = new HtmlTableCell();
var tableCellButton1 = new HtmlTableCell();
var tableCellButton2 = new HtmlTableCell();
var tableCellAction = new HtmlTableCell();
checkBox.InnerHtml = "<input type=\"checkbox\"/>";
tableCellName.InnerText = aliasName;
tableCellButton1.Controls.Add(assignNameBtn);
tableCellButton2.Controls.Add(assignActionBtn);
tableCellAction.InnerText = offerType + " - " + offerTitle + " - " + offerDescription;
tr.Cells.Add(checkBox);
tr.Cells.Add(tableCellName);
tr.Cells.Add(tableCellButton1);
tr.Cells.Add(tableCellAction);
tr.Cells.Add(tableCellButton2);
beaconTable.Rows.Add(tr);
}
}
}
void assignNameBtn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var btn = (Button)sender; // testing
HtmlTableRow row = (HtmlTableRow)btn.NamingContainer; //testing
// System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Clicked");
// assignNameBtn.OnClientClick = "buttonClickTest2()";
Response.Write("It worked");
}
}
}
The table in question startes like this in the .aspx file
<form id="mainform" runat="server">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="beaconTable" runat="server" >
<tr>
<th class="table-header-check"><a id="toggle-all" ></a> </th>
<th class="table-header-repeat line-left minwidth-1">Beacon Name </th>
<th class="table-header-repeat line-left minwidth-1" style="width: 113px"></a></th>
<th class="table-header-repeat line-left">Assigned Action</th>
<th class="table-header-repeat line-left"></a></th>
</tr>

Answer 1

You should use without parentheses
assignNameBtn.Click += assignNameBtn_Click;