Type.GetEvent Method (String)
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
public final EventInfo GetEvent ( String name )
public final function GetEvent ( name : String ) : EventInfo
Parameters
Return Value
The EventInfo object representing the specified public event which is declared or inherited by the current Type, if found; otherwise, a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).The search for name is case-sensitive. The search includes public static and public instance events.
If the requested type is non-public and the caller does not have ReflectionPermission to reflect non-public objects outside the current assembly, this method returns a null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic).
The following table shows what members of a base class are returned by the Get methods when reflecting on a type.
| Member Type | Static | Non-Static |
|---|---|---|
| Constructor | No | No |
| Field | No | Yes. A field is always hide-by-name-and-signature. |
| Event | Not applicable | The common type system rule is that the inheritance is the same as that of the methods that implement the property. Reflection treats properties as hide-by-name-and-signature. See note 2 below. |
| Method | No | Yes. A method (both virtual and non-virtual) can be hide-by-name or hide-by-name-and-signature. |
| Nested Type | No | No |
| Property | Not applicable | The common type system rule is that the inheritance is the same as that of the methods that implement the property. Reflection treats properties as hide-by-name-and-signature. See note 2 below. |
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Hide-by-name-and-signature considers all of the parts of the signature, including custom modifiers, return types, parameter types, sentinels, and unmanaged calling conventions. This is a binary comparison.
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For reflection, properties and events are hide-by-name-and-signature. If you have a property with both a get and a set accessor in the base class, but the derived class has only a get accessor, the derived class property hides the base class property, and you will not be able to access the setter on the base class.
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Custom attributes are not part of the common type system.
If the current Type represents a constructed generic type, this method returns the EventInfo with the type parameters replaced by the appropriate type arguments.
If the current Type represents a type parameter in the definition of a generic type or generic method, this method searches the events of the class constraint.
The following example creates an EventInfo object and gets the event for a button class for the specified event.
#using <system.dll> #using <system.windows.forms.dll> #using <system.drawing.dll> using namespace System; using namespace System::Reflection; using namespace System::Security; int main() { try { Type^ myType = System::Windows::Forms::Button::typeid; EventInfo^ myEvent = myType->GetEvent( "Click" ); if ( myEvent != nullptr ) { Console::WriteLine( "Looking for the Click event in the Button class." ); Console::WriteLine( myEvent ); } else Console::WriteLine( "The Click event is not available in the Button class." ); } catch ( SecurityException^ e ) { Console::WriteLine( "An exception occurred." ); Console::WriteLine( "Message : {0}", e->Message ); } catch ( ArgumentNullException^ e ) { Console::WriteLine( "An exception occurred." ); Console::WriteLine( "Message : {0}", e->Message ); } catch ( Exception^ e ) { Console::WriteLine( "The following exception was raised : {0}", e->Message ); } }
import System.*;
import System.Reflection.*;
import System.Security.*;
class MyEventExample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
try {
Type myType = System.Windows.Forms.Button.class.ToType();
EventInfo myEvent = myType.GetEvent("Click");
if (myEvent != null) {
Console.WriteLine("Looking for the Click event in the Button"
+ " class.");
Console.WriteLine(myEvent.ToString());
}
else {
Console.WriteLine("The Click event is not available in the "
+ "Button class.");
}
}
catch (SecurityException e) {
Console.WriteLine("An exception occurred.");
Console.WriteLine("Message :" + e.get_Message());
}
catch (ArgumentNullException e) {
Console.WriteLine("An exception occurred.");
Console.WriteLine("Message :" + e.get_Message());
}
catch (System.Exception e) {
Console.WriteLine("The following exception was raised : {0}",
e.get_Message());
}
} //main
} //MyEventExample
Windows 98, Windows 2000 SP4, Windows CE, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows Mobile for Pocket PC, Windows Mobile for Smartphone, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Starter Edition
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