To create a new event handler on a control you can do this
c.Click += new EventHandler(mainFormButton_Click);
or this
c.Click += mainFormButton_Click;
and to remove an event handler you can do this
c.Click -= mainFormButton_Click;
But how do you remove all event handlers from an event?
I found a solution on the MSDN forums. The sample code below will remove all Click events from button1.
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
button1.Click += button1_Click;
button1.Click += button1_Click2;
button2.Click += button2_Click;
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) => MessageBox.Show("Hello");
private void button1_Click2(object sender, EventArgs e) => MessageBox.Show("World");
private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) => RemoveClickEvent(button1);
private void RemoveClickEvent(Button b)
{
FieldInfo f1 = typeof(Control).GetField("EventClick",
BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
object obj = f1.GetValue(b);
PropertyInfo pi = b.GetType().GetProperty("Events",
BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
EventHandlerList list = (EventHandlerList)pi.GetValue(b, null);
list.RemoveHandler(obj, list[obj]);
}
}
From Removing All Event Handlers:
Directly no, in large part because you cannot simply set the event to null.
Indirectly, you could make the actual event private and create a property around it that tracks all of the delegates being added/subtracted to it.
Take the following:
List<EventHandler> delegates = new List<EventHandler>(); private event EventHandler MyRealEvent; public event EventHandler MyEvent { add { MyRealEvent += value; delegates.Add(value); } remove { MyRealEvent -= value; delegates.Remove(value); } } public void RemoveAllEvents() { foreach(EventHandler eh in delegates) { MyRealEvent -= eh; } delegates.Clear(); }
It doesn't do any harm to delete a non-existing event handler. So if you know what handlers there might be, you can simply delete all of them. I just had similar case. This may help in some cases.
Like:
// Add handlers...
if (something)
{
c.Click += DoesSomething;
}
else
{
c.Click += DoesSomethingElse;
}
// Remove handlers...
c.Click -= DoesSomething;
c.Click -= DoesSomethingElse;
If you reaallly have to do this... it'll take reflection and quite some time to do this. Event handlers are managed in an event-to-delegate-map inside a control. You would need to
In short, a lot of work. It is possible in theory... I never tried something like this.
See if you can have better control/discipline over the subscribe-unsubscribe phase for the control.
A bit late to the party, but I used this link that worked perfectly well for me: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/103542/Removing-Event-Handlers-using-Reflection
The beauty of this code is that it works for all, WFP, Forms, Xamarin Forms. I used it for Xamarin. Note that you need this way of using Reflection only if you don't own this event (e.g. a library code that crashes on some event that you don't care about).
Here is my slightly modified code:
static Dictionary<Type, List<FieldInfo>> dicEventFieldInfos = new Dictionary<Type, List<FieldInfo>>();
static BindingFlags AllBindings
{
get { return BindingFlags.IgnoreCase | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Static; }
}
static void BuildEventFields(Type t, List<FieldInfo> lst)
{
foreach (EventInfo ei in t.GetEvents(AllBindings))
{
Type dt = ei.DeclaringType;
FieldInfo fi = dt.GetField(ei.Name, AllBindings);
if (fi != null)
lst.Add(fi);
}
}
static List<FieldInfo> GetTypeEventFields(Type t)
{
if (dicEventFieldInfos.ContainsKey(t))
return dicEventFieldInfos[t];
List<FieldInfo> lst = new List<FieldInfo>();
BuildEventFields(t, lst);
dicEventFieldInfos.Add(t, lst);
return lst;
}
static EventHandlerList GetStaticEventHandlerList(Type t, object obj)
{
MethodInfo mi = t.GetMethod("get_Events", AllBindings);
return (EventHandlerList)mi.Invoke(obj, new object[] { });
}
public static void RemoveEventHandler(object obj, string EventName = "")
{
if (obj == null)
return;
Type t = obj.GetType();
List<FieldInfo> event_fields = GetTypeEventFields(t);
EventHandlerList static_event_handlers = null;
foreach (FieldInfo fi in event_fields)
{
if (EventName != "" && string.Compare(EventName, fi.Name, true) != 0)
continue;
var eventName = fi.Name;
// After hours and hours of research and trial and error, it turns out that
// STATIC Events have to be treated differently from INSTANCE Events...
if (fi.IsStatic)
{
// STATIC EVENT
if (static_event_handlers == null)
static_event_handlers = GetStaticEventHandlerList(t, obj);
object idx = fi.GetValue(obj);
Delegate eh = static_event_handlers[idx];
if (eh == null)
continue;
Delegate[] dels = eh.GetInvocationList();
if (dels == null)
continue;
EventInfo ei = t.GetEvent(eventName, AllBindings);
foreach (Delegate del in dels)
ei.RemoveEventHandler(obj, del);
}
else
{
// INSTANCE EVENT
EventInfo ei = t.GetEvent(eventName, AllBindings);
if (ei != null)
{
object val = fi.GetValue(obj);
Delegate mdel = (val as Delegate);
if (mdel != null)
{
foreach (Delegate del in mdel.GetInvocationList())
{
ei.RemoveEventHandler(obj, del);
}
}
}
}
}
}
Example usage: RemoveEventHandler(obj, "Focused");
removes all handlers for button: save.RemoveEvents();
public static class EventExtension
{
public static void RemoveEvents<T>(this T target) where T : Control
{
var propInfo = typeof(T).GetProperty("Events", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
var list = (EventHandlerList)propInfo.GetValue(target, null);
list.Dispose();
}
}
I found this answer and it almost fit my needs. Thanks to SwDevMan81 for the class. I have modified it to allow suppression and resumation of individual methods, and I thought I'd post it here.
// This class allows you to selectively suppress event handlers for controls. You instantiate
// the suppressor object with the control, and after that you can use it to suppress all events
// or a single event. If you try to suppress an event which has already been suppressed
// it will be ignored. Same with resuming; you can resume all events which were suppressed,
// or a single one. If you try to resume an un-suppressed event handler, it will be ignored.
//cEventSuppressor _supButton1 = null;
//private cEventSuppressor SupButton1 {
// get {
// if (_supButton1 == null) {
// _supButton1 = new cEventSuppressor(this.button1);
// }
// return _supButton1;
// }
//}
//private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
// MessageBox.Show("Clicked!");
//}
//private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
// SupButton1.Suppress("button1_Click");
//}
//private void button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
// SupButton1.Resume("button1_Click");
//}
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.ComponentModel;
namespace Crystal.Utilities {
public class cEventSuppressor {
Control _source;
EventHandlerList _sourceEventHandlerList;
FieldInfo _headFI;
Dictionary<object, Delegate[]> suppressedHandlers = new Dictionary<object, Delegate[]>();
PropertyInfo _sourceEventsInfo;
Type _eventHandlerListType;
Type _sourceType;
public cEventSuppressor(Control control) {
if (control == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("control", "An instance of a control must be provided.");
_source = control;
_sourceType = _source.GetType();
_sourceEventsInfo = _sourceType.GetProperty("Events", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
_sourceEventHandlerList = (EventHandlerList)_sourceEventsInfo.GetValue(_source, null);
_eventHandlerListType = _sourceEventHandlerList.GetType();
_headFI = _eventHandlerListType.GetField("head", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
}
private Dictionary<object, Delegate[]> BuildList() {
Dictionary<object, Delegate[]> retval = new Dictionary<object, Delegate[]>();
object head = _headFI.GetValue(_sourceEventHandlerList);
if (head != null) {
Type listEntryType = head.GetType();
FieldInfo delegateFI = listEntryType.GetField("handler", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
FieldInfo keyFI = listEntryType.GetField("key", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
FieldInfo nextFI = listEntryType.GetField("next", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
retval = BuildListWalk(retval, head, delegateFI, keyFI, nextFI);
}
return retval;
}
private Dictionary<object, Delegate[]> BuildListWalk(Dictionary<object, Delegate[]> dict,
object entry, FieldInfo delegateFI, FieldInfo keyFI, FieldInfo nextFI) {
if (entry != null) {
Delegate dele = (Delegate)delegateFI.GetValue(entry);
object key = keyFI.GetValue(entry);
object next = nextFI.GetValue(entry);
if (dele != null) {
Delegate[] listeners = dele.GetInvocationList();
if (listeners != null && listeners.Length > 0) {
dict.Add(key, listeners);
}
}
if (next != null) {
dict = BuildListWalk(dict, next, delegateFI, keyFI, nextFI);
}
}
return dict;
}
public void Resume() {
}
public void Resume(string pMethodName) {
//if (_handlers == null)
// throw new ApplicationException("Events have not been suppressed.");
Dictionary<object, Delegate[]> toRemove = new Dictionary<object, Delegate[]>();
// goes through all handlers which have been suppressed. If we are resuming,
// all handlers, or if we find the matching handler, add it back to the
// control's event handlers
foreach (KeyValuePair<object, Delegate[]> pair in suppressedHandlers) {
for (int x = 0; x < pair.Value.Length; x++) {
string methodName = pair.Value[x].Method.Name;
if (pMethodName == null || methodName.Equals(pMethodName)) {
_sourceEventHandlerList.AddHandler(pair.Key, pair.Value[x]);
toRemove.Add(pair.Key, pair.Value);
}
}
}
// remove all un-suppressed handlers from the list of suppressed handlers
foreach (KeyValuePair<object, Delegate[]> pair in toRemove) {
for (int x = 0; x < pair.Value.Length; x++) {
suppressedHandlers.Remove(pair.Key);
}
}
//_handlers = null;
}
public void Suppress() {
Suppress(null);
}
public void Suppress(string pMethodName) {
//if (_handlers != null)
// throw new ApplicationException("Events are already being suppressed.");
Dictionary<object, Delegate[]> dict = BuildList();
foreach (KeyValuePair<object, Delegate[]> pair in dict) {
for (int x = pair.Value.Length - 1; x >= 0; x--) {
//MethodInfo mi = pair.Value[x].Method;
//string s1 = mi.Name; // name of the method
//object o = pair.Value[x].Target;
// can use this to invoke method pair.Value[x].DynamicInvoke
string methodName = pair.Value[x].Method.Name;
if (pMethodName == null || methodName.Equals(pMethodName)) {
_sourceEventHandlerList.RemoveHandler(pair.Key, pair.Value[x]);
suppressedHandlers.Add(pair.Key, pair.Value);
}
}
}
}
}
}