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How to properly handle events on labels ontop of a button?

I have a class which I inherit from Button. In this class, I create labels which I can use as custom button captions. The problem I have on these custom buttons is when I click the label nothing happens, and if I click outside the label but still on the button it works as usual. To solve this I wrote:
lblTitle.Click += new EventHandler(LabelClick);
And in LabelClick I wrote:
private void LabelClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
base.OnClick(e);
}
This worked good, but then I noticed that I didnt get the clickanimation of the click, when I clicked on the label. So I made the same thing with onMouseDown and Up.
lblTitle.MouseDown += new MouseEventHandler(LabelMouseDown);
lblTitle.MouseUp += new MouseEventHandler(LabelMouseUp);
private void LabelMouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
base.OnMouseDown(e);
}
private void LabelMouseUp(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
base.OnMouseUp(e);
}
But then I sometimes get the effect of clicking two times on the button. So now I'm wondering, how do I give the user the same click animation when clicked on the button and the label ontop of the button - without making the button click twice?
Thanks in advance and if you gonna downgrade this question, please leave a comment on why!

I think that the problem is that LabelClick & LabelMouseDown & LabelMouseUp all these three events are fired when you click the label which fires them in the base button. so your click event is duplicated when you make a MouseDown event. (this should be a comment, but i dont have enough reputation to leave a comment, hope it will help :) )

Handling UserControl events dynamically

Initially i was having a picture box which can be moved on the form by user from one place to another.
I have handled the events for the picture box and it was moving perfectly.
But now user wants to display a text below the picture. So I thought to create a custom control dynamically and add that picture box and a label control inside the user control.
I also set the dock properties of controls to TOP and Bottom. Now my user control is completely covered with the sub controls.
After that i want to handle the mouse events for the user control. But unfortunately that is not working for me.
As per my understanding, now i cannot access the user control instead i am having access to sub controls in user control, so the mouse events for user control are not working.
Correct me if am wrong, and provide any solution.

well, the mouse event like MouseDown and MouseUp occurs only when the mouse is doing something on the specific control. the best offer i can give you is to catch each mouse event in the controls and call a method on the userControl
public UserControl1()
{
InitializeComponent();
this.MouseDown += new MouseEventHandler(this.UserControl1_MouseDown);
this.comboBox1.MouseDown += new MouseEventHandler(this.comboBox1_MouseDown);
}
private void UserControl1_MouseClick(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
UCMouseDown();
}
private void UserControl1_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
UCMouseDown();
}
private void comboBox1_MouseDown(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
UCMouseDown();
}
private void UCMouseDown()
{
// Your code
}

Call parent control click event c#

I developping one win-form application which having one custom control with one label and text box, and placed the custom control in one panel with docksytle as fill,
there is mouse click event for panel and custom control both, but when i click only custom control mouse click event is firing not the panel click event,
so anyone please let me know how to call the panel mouse click event.

Are you sure that you really need to invoke click of parent control? In general it would be, in my opinion, a code smell if you will do something like that - especially when it requires some strange constructions.
If you need to react in a same way when clicking on panel and on any child control inside the panel, it should be enough just to call the same method from two event handlers (that is from event handler of parent panel and event handler of child control. If you need, for example, mouse pointer location inside parent panel, you can easily calculate the position of mouse pointer using, for example, PointToScreen() and PointToClient() methods.

This is not a general solution, but maybe it's what you're looking for:
private void CustomControl_MouseClick(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
panel_MouseClick(sender, e);
}
private void panel_MouseClick(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
}

Create Click Event for each control in panel and invoke the parent :
private void This_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.InvokeOnClick(this, null);
}

How to call an event handler from one control to the another control?

In Visual C# Form Application, When I Click on the button I want to add to the other controls(like listboxes,labels,textboxes) in same form.
How do I do this?

I have no idea what "to come to the other controls" might mean. But the event handlers in your Form derived class is the switchboard. Implement the button's Click event and have it do whatever you want done with any other controls. A trivial example:
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
label1.Text = "You clicked the button!";
}

In the form designer, add an event handler to the button's Click event.
The form designer will give you a new method like this; add your code into this method:
private void button_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// Write some code that uses list boxes, labels, text boxes etc.
}

You question is somewhat unclear, but if you simply want to access other controls on the form, just go ahead and do so:
private void YourButton_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string someValue = yourTextBox.Text;
// do something with the value
}

If you want to add one event handler to many controls, you can do it.
Just go to properties of control you wish to subscribe, find appropriate event from list (ex: onClick) and choise your existed handler.
But this method will be sutable if events compotable.
Describe your task more detail.

How does a Windows Forms control know when its form was (de)activated?

I have a Windows Forms application in C# .NET. It contains a user-drawn control that also handles the keyboard focus. If a part of the control has the focus, a focus highlight border is painted around it. When the form that contains the control is deactivated, the focus border must disappear from the control, obviously. But the control doesn't even get a notification about it. It only receives the "Leave" event when another control is focused, not another window. How can the control know about that?

When the Form+Control are loaded, the Control can subscribe to the Activate and DeActivated events of the Form.
If it is a UserControl, you have the Control.Load event to do this. For a CustomControl I would have to look it up.
Anyway, be sure to implement Dispose in your Control to unsubscribe to the events.
Just gave it a try:
private void UserControl1_FormActivate(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
label1.Text = "Acitve";
}
private void UserControl1_FormDeActivate(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
label1.Text = "InAcitve";
}
private void UserControl1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
this.ParentForm.Activated += UserControl1_FormActivate;
this.ParentForm.Deactivate += UserControl1_FormDeActivate;
}