Hi there,

Just curious as to whether there's a clever way to see the events a
control/object is firing off, perhaps written out to the debug console. It
would be really handy to know which events a control is firing when I
perform a certain action, and the order in which they are occurring.

Thanks,

Erik

Put a concole.writeline in an eventhandler for every event for the object in
question.

"Erik Frey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:OxI$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi there,
>
> Just curious as to whether there's a clever way to see the events a
> control/object is firing off, perhaps written out to the debug console.
It
> would be really handy to know which events a control is firing when I
> perform a certain action, and the order in which they are occurring.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Erik
>
>

I was wondering if there was a -clever- way of doing it, dynamic for an
object you choose.

My initial thoughts were to use reflection to loop through all the event
signatures - I imagine you can do that. And adding a handler, with some
kind of dynamically created method? Maybe? I don't even know if such a
thing is possible.

"Stephany Young" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Put a concole.writeline in an eventhandler for every event for the object
in
> question.
>
> "Erik Frey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:OxI$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi there,
> >
> > Just curious as to whether there's a clever way to see the events a
> > control/object is firing off, perhaps written out to the debug console.
> It
> > would be really handy to know which events a control is firing when I
> > perform a certain action, and the order in which they are occurring.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Erik
> >
> >
>
>

Sometimes you just have to get down and dirty and write some code.

"Erik Frey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I was wondering if there was a -clever- way of doing it, dynamic for
an
> object you choose.
>
> My initial thoughts were to use reflection to loop through all the
event
> signatures - I imagine you can do that. And adding a handler, with some
> kind of dynamically created method? Maybe? I don't even know if such a
> thing is possible.
>
> "Stephany Young" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Put a concole.writeline in an eventhandler for every event for the
object
> in
> > question.
> >
> > "Erik Frey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:OxI$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > Just curious as to whether there's a clever way to see the events
a
> > > control/object is firing off, perhaps written out to the debug
console.
> > It
> > > would be really handy to know which events a control is firing when I
> > > perform a certain action, and the order in which they are occurring.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Erik
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

Stephany
I love that answer, did not look at the question :-)
Cor

Erik,
To dynamically create a method (class/Assembly) look at the
System.Reflection.Emit namespace. Word of advice, load the dynamic assembly
into a new AppDomain so you can unload it.

Alternatively you could use System.CodeDom to create a source module that
you later compile.

In either case you probably could have written a single module faster and
manually handle all the events! However! You would not have a cool utility
worth sharing, that would handle events out of any source. Of course if you
are going the cool utility route, be sure we can choose which events we want
handled! And post the utility on www.gotdotnet.com or someplace were the
rest of us can use it!

BTW: Dynamically handling events I think would be handy for utilities such
as www.nunit.org & www.csunit.org. Have an attribute that says this method
should raise this event. The tool would dynamically handle the event to be
certain it was raised. Similar to how they handles Exceptions.

Hope this helps
Jay

"Erik Frey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I was wondering if there was a -clever- way of doing it, dynamic for
an
> object you choose.
>
> My initial thoughts were to use reflection to loop through all the
event
> signatures - I imagine you can do that. And adding a handler, with some
> kind of dynamically created method? Maybe? I don't even know if such a
> thing is possible.
>
> "Stephany Young" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Put a concole.writeline in an eventhandler for every event for the
object
> in
> > question.
> >
> > "Erik Frey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:OxI$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > Just curious as to whether there's a clever way to see the events
a
> > > control/object is firing off, perhaps written out to the debug
console.
> > It
> > > would be really handy to know which events a control is firing when I
> > > perform a certain action, and the order in which they are occurring.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Erik
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

You could also look into bubble eventing. basically have everything point
to a sub that has the signiture (sp?) of (sender as object, e as
system.eventargs) and just keep adding handlers to it.

Then when you call the event handler (as an event is fired) you could do

console.writeline(e.gettype().tostring()) which will tell you what kind of
event argument handler your dealing with. and from there, you can pretty
much do what you want, since most event handlers have like signitures (and
are almost all derived from System.EventArgs...)

How is that for 'clever'



"Erik Frey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> I was wondering if there was a -clever- way of doing it, dynamic for
an
> object you choose.
>
> My initial thoughts were to use reflection to loop through all the
event
> signatures - I imagine you can do that. And adding a handler, with some
> kind of dynamically created method? Maybe? I don't even know if such a
> thing is possible.
>
> "Stephany Young" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Put a concole.writeline in an eventhandler for every event for the
object
> in
> > question.
> >
> > "Erik Frey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:OxI$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > Just curious as to whether there's a clever way to see the events
a
> > > control/object is firing off, perhaps written out to the debug
console.
> > It
> > > would be really handy to know which events a control is firing when I
> > > perform a certain action, and the order in which they are occurring.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Erik
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

Thanks for the advice - it looks like you were on the right track.
Someone pointed me to this:

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/controlinspector.asp

It basically does what you describe. Pretty handy utility!

Erik

"Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:uydTf%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Erik,
> To dynamically create a method (class/Assembly) look at the
> System.Reflection.Emit namespace. Word of advice, load the dynamic
assembly
> into a new AppDomain so you can unload it.
>
> Alternatively you could use System.CodeDom to create a source module that
> you later compile.
>
> In either case you probably could have written a single module faster and
> manually handle all the events! However! You would not have a cool utility
> worth sharing, that would handle events out of any source. Of course if
you
> are going the cool utility route, be sure we can choose which events we
want
> handled! And post the utility on www.gotdotnet.com or someplace were the
> rest of us can use it!
>
> BTW: Dynamically handling events I think would be handy for utilities such
> as www.nunit.org & www.csunit.org. Have an attribute that says this method
> should raise this event. The tool would dynamically handle the event to be
> certain it was raised. Similar to how they handles Exceptions.
>
> Hope this helps
> Jay
>
> "Erik Frey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I was wondering if there was a -clever- way of doing it, dynamic for
> an
> > object you choose.
> >
> > My initial thoughts were to use reflection to loop through all the
> event
> > signatures - I imagine you can do that. And adding a handler, with some
> > kind of dynamically created method? Maybe? I don't even know if such a
> > thing is possible.
> >
> > "Stephany Young" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > Put a concole.writeline in an eventhandler for every event for the
> object
> > in
> > > question.
> > >
> > > "Erik Frey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > > news:OxI$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > > Hi there,
> > > >
> > > > Just curious as to whether there's a clever way to see the
events
> a
> > > > control/object is firing off, perhaps written out to the debug
> console.
> > > It
> > > > would be really handy to know which events a control is firing when
I
> > > > perform a certain action, and the order in which they are occurring.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Erik
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

Thanks for the advice:

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/controlinspector.asp

"CJ Taylor" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:e9$1CH%(E-Mail Removed)...
> You could also look into bubble eventing. basically have everything point
> to a sub that has the signiture (sp?) of (sender as object, e as
> system.eventargs) and just keep adding handlers to it.
>
> Then when you call the event handler (as an event is fired) you could do
>
> console.writeline(e.gettype().tostring()) which will tell you what kind of
> event argument handler your dealing with. and from there, you can pretty
> much do what you want, since most event handlers have like signitures (and
> are almost all derived from System.EventArgs...)
>
> How is that for 'clever'
>
>
>
> "Erik Frey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > I was wondering if there was a -clever- way of doing it, dynamic for
> an
> > object you choose.
> >
> > My initial thoughts were to use reflection to loop through all the
> event
> > signatures - I imagine you can do that. And adding a handler, with some
> > kind of dynamically created method? Maybe? I don't even know if such a
> > thing is possible.
> >
> > "Stephany Young" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > Put a concole.writeline in an eventhandler for every event for the
> object
> > in
> > > question.
> > >
> > > "Erik Frey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > > news:OxI$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > > Hi there,
> > > >
> > > > Just curious as to whether there's a clever way to see the
events
> a
> > > > control/object is firing off, perhaps written out to the debug
> console.
> > > It
> > > > would be really handy to know which events a control is firing when
I
> > > > perform a certain action, and the order in which they are occurring.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Erik
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

Erik,
Thanks for the link! I'll need to look at that later.

Jay

"Erik Frey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:eCXX0u%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks for the advice - it looks like you were on the right track.
> Someone pointed me to this:
>
> http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/controlinspector.asp
>
> It basically does what you describe. Pretty handy utility!
>
> Erik
>
> "Jay B. Harlow [MVP - Outlook]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message
> news:uydTf%(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Erik,
> > To dynamically create a method (class/Assembly) look at the
> > System.Reflection.Emit namespace. Word of advice, load the dynamic
> assembly
> > into a new AppDomain so you can unload it.
> >
> > Alternatively you could use System.CodeDom to create a source module
that
> > you later compile.
> >
> > In either case you probably could have written a single module faster
and
> > manually handle all the events! However! You would not have a cool
utility
> > worth sharing, that would handle events out of any source. Of course if
> you
> > are going the cool utility route, be sure we can choose which events we
> want
> > handled! And post the utility on www.gotdotnet.com or someplace were the
> > rest of us can use it!
> >
> > BTW: Dynamically handling events I think would be handy for utilities
such
> > as www.nunit.org & www.csunit.org. Have an attribute that says this
method
> > should raise this event. The tool would dynamically handle the event to
be
> > certain it was raised. Similar to how they handles Exceptions.
> >
> > Hope this helps
> > Jay
> >
> > "Erik Frey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > I was wondering if there was a -clever- way of doing it, dynamic
for
> > an
> > > object you choose.
> > >
> > > My initial thoughts were to use reflection to loop through all the
> > event
> > > signatures - I imagine you can do that. And adding a handler, with
some
> > > kind of dynamically created method? Maybe? I don't even know if such
a
> > > thing is possible.
> > >
> > > "Stephany Young" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > > Put a concole.writeline in an eventhandler for every event for the
> > object
> > > in
> > > > question.
> > > >
> > > > "Erik Frey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > > > news:OxI$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > > > Hi there,
> > > > >
> > > > > Just curious as to whether there's a clever way to see the
> events
> > a
> > > > > control/object is firing off, perhaps written out to the debug
> > console.
> > > > It
> > > > > would be really handy to know which events a control is firing
when
> I
> > > > > perform a certain action, and the order in which they are
occurring.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > >
> > > > > Erik
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>