Event Tracer
One of the problems facing a WinForms developer is choosing which event
handler to pick when he wants to handle a certain event. Now this sounds easy,
you might say: I want to do something when the user click on the form so I add
an event handler to the form Click event. And in this case that works just fine
but suppose you want to do something when a user tabs from one TextBox to the
next. In this case a number of events are raised. Now this utility gives the
developer insight into which events are raised and in what order. This way a
developer can see that the Validating event is raised when tabbing between
controls. But equally important the developer can spot an event that isn’t
raised. For example he might set the CausesValidation property to false and the
Validating event is no longer raised. Now he watch the trace, confirm the event
is no longer raised and pick another suitable event instead.
Note:
This version of the EventTracer is still an early 0.5 version so it isn’t
exactly finished yet. Any feedback will be appreciated, please mail me at
mauricedb@computer.org
You can
download it from here.
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