How to remove all Click event handlers? [duplicate]

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Possible Duplicate: How would that be possible to remove all event handlers of the Click event of a Button?

I want to remove all click event handlers from a button. I found this method in Stack Overflow question How to remove all event handlers from a control.

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]);
}

But this line always returns null:

  typeof(Control).GetField("EventClick", BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.NonPublic);

And this method was written in 2006.

Is there any latest version of this method?

Note: I am working with WPF and .NET 4.0.

I can't help much for why that's returning null, but @JonSkeet has a pretty good answer at stackoverflow.com/questions/6828054/… on why this is not possible without reflection. Perhaps you need to approach the problem differently. — Eric Andres
– Eric Andres, Commented Feb 24, 2012 at 17:07
What is the fundamental problem you're trying to solve / goal you're trying to accomplish? — RQDQ
– RQDQ, Commented Feb 24, 2012 at 17:53
You realize that you’re trying to apply WinForms code to WPF? — Douglas
– Douglas, Commented Feb 24, 2012 at 19:07
see answer "Solution to remove Event handler dynamically (using reflection). Is there a better way to do this?" stackoverflow.com/questions/11031149/… — Dinis Cruz
– Dinis Cruz, Commented Jun 14, 2012 at 10:24

Douglas · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-24 19:39:16Z

20

The below is a helpful utility method for retrieving all subscribed event handlers for any routed event:

/// <summary>
/// Gets the list of routed event handlers subscribed to the specified routed event.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="element">The UI element on which the event is defined.</param>
/// <param name="routedEvent">The routed event for which to retrieve the event handlers.</param>
/// <returns>The list of subscribed routed event handlers.</returns>
public static RoutedEventHandlerInfo[] GetRoutedEventHandlers(UIElement element, RoutedEvent routedEvent)
{
    // Get the EventHandlersStore instance which holds event handlers for the specified element.
    // The EventHandlersStore class is declared as internal.
    var eventHandlersStoreProperty = typeof(UIElement).GetProperty(
        "EventHandlersStore", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
    object eventHandlersStore = eventHandlersStoreProperty.GetValue(element, null);

    // Invoke the GetRoutedEventHandlers method on the EventHandlersStore instance 
    // for getting an array of the subscribed event handlers.
    var getRoutedEventHandlers = eventHandlersStore.GetType().GetMethod(
        "GetRoutedEventHandlers", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
    var routedEventHandlers = (RoutedEventHandlerInfo[])getRoutedEventHandlers.Invoke(
        eventHandlersStore, new object[] { routedEvent });

    return routedEventHandlers;
}

Using the above, the implementation of your method becomes quite simple:

private void RemoveClickEvent(Button b)
{
    var routedEventHandlers = GetRoutedEventHandlers(b, ButtonBase.ClickEvent);
    foreach (var routedEventHandler in routedEventHandlers)
        b.Click -= (RoutedEventHandler)routedEventHandler.Handler;
}

answered Feb 24, 2012 at 19:39

Douglas

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2 Comments

phloopy Over a year ago

This is a very useful answer that is unfortunately attached to a closed question. I think the "duplicate" would be improved by you providing the same answer there as well.

Douglas Over a year ago

@phloopy: Good suggestion. I just posted an improved version of the above solution there.

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