cEventHelper.cs

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.IO;
using System.Management;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Text;

namespace PluginRainForms
{
  //--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  static public class cEventHelper
  {
    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 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 void BuildEventFields(Type t, List<FieldInfo> lst)
    {
      // Type.GetEvent(s) gets all Events for the type AND it's ancestors
      // Type.GetField(s) gets only Fields for the exact type.
      //  (BindingFlags.FlattenHierarchy only works on PROTECTED & PUBLIC
      //   doesn't work because Fieds are PRIVATE)

      // NEW version of this routine uses .GetEvents and then uses .DeclaringType
      // to get the correct ancestor type so that we can get the FieldInfo.
      foreach (EventInfo ei in t.GetEvents(AllBindings))
      {
        Type dt = ei.DeclaringType;
        FieldInfo fi = dt.GetField(ei.Name, AllBindings);
        if (fi != null)
          lst.Add(fi);
      }

      // OLD version of the code - called itself recursively to get all fields
      // for 't' and ancestors and then tested each one to see if it's an EVENT
      // Much less efficient than the new code
/*
      foreach (FieldInfo fi in t.GetFields(AllBindings))
      {
        EventInfo ei = t.GetEvent(fi.Name, AllBindings);
        if (ei != null)
        {
          lst.Add(fi);
          Console.WriteLine(ei.Name);
        }
      }
      if (t.BaseType != null)
        BuildEventFields(t.BaseType, 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 RemoveAllEventHandlers(object obj) { RemoveEventHandler(obj, ""); }

    //--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    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;

        // 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(fi.Name, AllBindings);
          foreach (Delegate del in dels)
            ei.RemoveEventHandler(obj, del);
        }
        else
        {
          // INSTANCE EVENT
          EventInfo ei = t.GetEvent(fi.Name, 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);
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }

    //--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  }
}