Event Shadowing/hiding in C#

You will not be able to "hide" this event; The .NET language ensures that this member is accessable (all public parent members are accessable from child objects).

The best you could do is effectively disable the event by placing the following code in your ListView subclass:

  protected override void OnSelectedIndexChanged(EventArgs e)
  {
  }

i.e.: do not call base.OnSelectedIndexChanged(e), and the SelectedIndexChanged event will not be processed.

Or you could do this (more similar to what you demonstrated in your question), when a user subscribes to YourListView.SelectedIndexChanged the request is essentially ignored:

  public new event System.EventHandler SelectedIndexChanged
  {
    add
    {
      //base.SelectedIndexChanged += value;
    }
    remove
    {
      //base.SelectedIndexChanged -= value;
    }
  }

Note that the user could always cast your object back to a System.Windows.Forms.ListView and access the ListView.SelectedIndexChanged event from there though.

An alternative possibliity would be to filter out the appropriate window messages by overriding the System.Windows.Forms.Control.PreProcessMessage method which happens to be intended at filtering out unwanted messages - see http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemwindowsformscontrolclasspreprocessmessagetopic.asp

HTH

Thanks for the quick response.

As in VB.NET we can shadow the same event, why cannot be it done in C# ?

Thank you

The second example I gave you ("public new event System.EventHandler SelectedIndexChanged") is the c# equivalent of a shadow.  In neither case is the functionality or accessibility of the ListView.SelectedIndexChanged event changed.

Does that answer your question rk_1972, or do you have any more questions?

Sorry buddy,
that doesn't work. I am not able to Raise the event.

What is it exactly you are trying to do?  Are you trying to disable the SelectedIndexChanged event, or are you creating a NEW event that happens to have the same name as SelectedIndexChanged, but actually has nothing to do with it?

Yes, You are right !

I am trying to create a new event with same name and with different signature.

A similar code in VB is

Public Shadows Event SelectedIndexChanged
(ByVal  sender As Object, ByVal e As SelectedIndexChangedEventArgs)

please note the SelectedIndexChangedEventArgs derived from eventArgs class. And stores few variable values and objects.

So when i write a event in my composite control , it should raise with this eventArgs, instead of regular empty eventArgs.

Thank you





 

What will cause this event to be raised?

Yes, I am trying the same but i am not able to raise event ...

Below is the code:

//Add the items to the controls collection as linkbuttons
 foreach(ListItem objItem in this.Items)
 {                        
    // create a new link button for each item and set the respective values.
   ExtLinkButton objLink = new ExtLinkButton();
   objLink.Text = objItem.Text;
   objLink.Value = objItem.Value;
   objLink.Selected = objItem.Selected;
   objLink.Enabled = true;
   objLink.EnableViewState = false;
                        
 // every link buttons click event is handled by new event handler.
   objLink.Click += new EventHandler(ExtLnkButton_Click);
   this.Controls.Add(objLink);
                          
 }            

  void ExtLnkButton_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
  {
  // sender is a Link Button, set that to a objLink
  BasicControls.ExtLinkButton objLink  = (BasicControls.ExtLinkButton)  sender  ;
  // instantiate the class SelectedIndexChangedEventArgs.
  OnSelectedIndexChanged(new  SelectedIndexChangedEventArgs(objLink));
            }

// To raise the event, you pass two arguments: the sender (the control MyControl) and the //MyEventArgs object passed to the method.      

      protected virtual void OnSelectedIndexChanged(SelectedIndexChangedEventArgs e)
            {      
                     if (SelectedIndexChanged != null)                          
                  {
                        SelectedIndexChanged(this , e);
                  }
            }      




---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Event Args Code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
public class SelectedIndexChangedEventArgs: System.EventArgs
      {                        
            public ExtLinkButton Link;
            internal SelectedIndexChangedEventArgs(ExtLinkButton objLink)
            {
                  this.Link = objLink;            
            }                                    
            
            // shadow the Read only property "Empty" of the System.EventArgs
            // The value of Empty is a read-only instance of EventArgs equivalent to the result of calling the EventArgs constructor
            public new SelectedIndexChangedEventArgs Empty
            {
                  get
                  {
                        return new SelectedIndexChangedEventArgs(null);
                  }                        
            }            
      }            

Okay I got it  !

Thanks for your answers.