Sorry for the title, it's not explicit.
Further to my precedent question, I want to subscribe a method to an event object retrieved dynamically (via reflection). The object in question is a field of a Control :
public void SubscribeEvents(Control control)
{
Type controlType = control.GetType();
FieldInfo[] fields = controlType.GetFields(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
MethodInfo method = typeof(Trace).GetMethod("WriteTrace");
// "button1" hardcoded for the sample
FieldInfo f = controlType.GetField("button1", BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
// "Click" hardcoded for the sample
EventInfo eInfo = f.FieldType.GetEvent("Click");
if (eInfo != null)
{
EventHandler dummyDelegate = (s, e) => WriteTrace(s, e, eInfo.Name);
Delegate realDelegate = Delegate.CreateDelegate(eInfo.EventHandlerType, dummyDelegate.Target, dummyDelegate.Method);
eInfo.AddEventHandler(?????, realDelegate); // How can I reference the variable button1 ???
}
}
I don't know how to reference the variable 'button1'. I've tried something like this :
public void SubscribeEvents(Control control)
{
Type controlType = control.GetType();
FieldInfo[] fields = controlType.GetFields(BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
MethodInfo method = typeof(Trace).GetMethod("WriteTrace");
// "button1" hardcoded for the sample
FieldInfo f = controlType.GetField("button1", BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
// "Click" hardcoded for the sample
EventInfo eInfo = f.FieldType.GetEvent("Click");
Type t = f.FieldType;
object o = Activator.CreateInstance(t);
f.GetValue(o);
if (eInfo != null)
{
EventHandler dummyDelegate = (s, e) => WriteTrace(s, e, eInfo.Name);
Delegate realDelegate = Delegate.CreateDelegate(eInfo.EventHandlerType, dummyDelegate.Target, dummyDelegate.Method);
eInfo.AddEventHandler(o, realDelegate); // Why can I refer to the variable button1 ???
}
}
But I have an exception here :
f.GetValue(o);
System.ArgumentException was unhandled Message=Field 'button1' defined on type 'WindowsFormsApplication1.Form1' is not a field on the target object which is of type 'System.Windows.Forms.Button'.
That's because you're trying to create a new instance of Button
and trying to get the value of its button1
property, which obviously does not exist.
Replace this:
Type t = f.FieldType;
object o = Activator.CreateInstance(t);
f.GetValue(o);
with this:
object o = f.GetValue(control);
You can use a method like this to obtain the value of a field for any object:
public static T GetFieldValue<T>(object obj, string fieldName)
{
if (obj == null)
throw new ArgumentNullException("obj");
var field = obj.GetType().GetField(fieldName, BindingFlags.Public |
BindingFlags.NonPublic |
BindingFlags.Instance);
if (field == null)
throw new ArgumentException("fieldName", "No such field was found.");
if (!typeof(T).IsAssignableFrom(field.FieldType))
throw new InvalidOperationException("Field type and requested type are not compatible.");
return (T)field.GetValue(obj);
}