How would it be possible to remove all event handlers of the 'Click' event of a 'Button'?
Note: Since the question on which I posted my original answer was closed as a duplicate of this question, I'm cross-posting an improved version of my answer here. This answer only applies to WPF. It will not work on Windows Forms or any other UI framework.
The below is a helpful utility method for removing all event handlers subscribed to a routed event on a given element. You can trivially convert this to an extension method if you like.
/// <summary>
/// Removes all event handlers subscribed to the specified routed event from the specified element.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="element">The UI element on which the routed event is defined.</param>
/// <param name="routedEvent">The routed event for which to remove the event handlers.</param>
public static void RemoveRoutedEventHandlers(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);
// If no event handlers are subscribed, eventHandlersStore will be null.
// Credit: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16392387/1149773
if (eventHandlersStore == null)
return;
// 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 });
// Iteratively remove all routed event handlers from the element.
foreach (var routedEventHandler in routedEventHandlers)
element.RemoveHandler(routedEvent, routedEventHandler.Handler);
}
You could then easily call this utility method for your button's Click
event:
RemoveRoutedEventHandlers(button, Button.ClickEvent);
Edit: I've copied the bug fix implemented by corona, which stops the method from throwing a NullReferenceException
when no event handlers are subscribed. Credit (and upvotes) should go to their answer.
Just wanted to expand on Douglas' routine slightly, which I liked very much. I found I needed to add the extra null check to eventHandlersStore to handle any cases where the element passed didn't have any events attached yet.
/// <summary>
/// Removes all event handlers subscribed to the specified routed event from the specified element.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="element">The UI element on which the routed event is defined.</param>
/// <param name="routedEvent">The routed event for which to remove the event handlers.</param>
public static void RemoveRoutedEventHandlers(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);
if (eventHandlersStore == null) return;
// 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 });
// Iteratively remove all routed event handlers from the element.
foreach (var routedEventHandler in routedEventHandlers)
element.RemoveHandler(routedEvent, routedEventHandler.Handler);
}
You can't, basically - at least not without reflection and a lot of grubbiness.
Events are strictly "subscribe, unsubscribe" - you can't unsubscribe someone else's handler, any more than you can change someone else's reference to an object.