Tracing all events in VB.NET

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Published on 2010-05-10T13:05:38Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 15:44 UTC
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I keep running into situations where I don't know what event I have to listen to in order to execute my code at the correct time. Is there any way to get a log of all events that is raised? Any way to filter that log based on what object raised the event?

EDIT: Final solution:

Private Sub WireAllEvents(ByVal obj As Object)
    Dim parameterTypes() As Type = {GetType(System.Object), GetType(System.EventArgs)}
    Dim Events = obj.GetType().GetEvents()
    For Each ev In Events
        Dim handler As New DynamicMethod("", Nothing, parameterTypes, GetType(main))
        Dim ilgen As ILGenerator = handler.GetILGenerator()
        ilgen.EmitWriteLine("Event Name: " + ev.Name)
        ilgen.Emit(OpCodes.Ret)
        ev.AddEventHandler(obj, handler.CreateDelegate(ev.EventHandlerType))
    Next
End Sub

And yes, I know this is not a good solution when you actually want to do real stuff that triggers off the events. There are good reasons for the 1 method - 1 event approach, but this is still useful when trying to figure out which of the methods you want to add your handlers to.

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