How to know if a delegate has been assigned to an event????

[Bob Rock]

Hello,

is there a way to dynamically query if a callback delegate has been
tied to an event to avoid raising the event if none have been tied or
raise an exception if proper for the situation???
Thx.
Bob Rock

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Bob Rock <an************ ***@yahoo.com> wrote:

is there a way to dynamically query if a callback delegate has been
tied to an event to avoid raising the event if none have been tied or
raise an exception if proper for the situation???

The normal way is:

if (myEventDelegat e==null)
{
....
}

That's assuming the code which needs to find this out is within the
class declaring the event - you can't find out from outside.

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[C Addison Ritchie]

Try this:
if (myEventDelegat e != null)
{
myEventDelegate (...);
}

Delegate types represent references to methods with a particular signature and return type. They make it possible to treat methods as objects that can be assigned to variables and passed as parameters. As such they can be compared to null just as easily as any other reference.

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"Bob Rock" wrote:

Hello,

is there a way to dynamically query if a callback delegate has been
tied to an event to avoid raising the event if none have been tied or
raise an exception if proper for the situation???
Thx.
Bob Rock

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

You can get the delegates invocation list using GetInvocationLi st. The count
of objects in this array is the number of handlers tied to the event. The
order in which they are presented in this list is the order in which the
event will call them.

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"Bob Rock" <an************ ***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Hello,

is there a way to dynamically query if a callback delegate has been
tied to an event to avoid raising the event if none have been tied or
raise an exception if proper for the situation???
Thx.
Bob Rock

[Bob Rock]

"Bob Powell [MVP]" <bob@_spamkille r_bobpowell.net > wrote in message news:<O0******* ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl>.. .

You can get the delegates invocation list using GetInvocationLi st. The count
of objects in this array is the number of handlers tied to the event. The
order in which they are presented in this list is the order in which the
event will call them.

--
Bob Powell [MVP]
Visual C#, System.Drawing

Bob, thank you. Unfortunately doing myEvent.GetInvo cationList().Le ngth
causes an exception if the event has no delegated tied to it ... there
is no array in that case.

Jon controlling the null value on the event works perfectly well.
Bob Rock