Trying to refactor this code and hit a wall. [resolved]

[TType85]

Here is a sample of the code I am refactoring it works great as is, but I don't want to write (copy/paste/change) this code for every time I need it.

Public Sub RaiseSendMessageEvent(ByVal e As DocGenCommon.DocGen.DocGenEventArgs)
 
        For Each del As [Delegate] In SendMessageEvent.GetInvocationList()
            Try
                del.Method.Invoke(del.Target, New Object() {e})
            Catch
                SendMessageEvent = DirectCast(System.Delegate.Remove(SendMessageEvent, del), IDocGenEventServer.SendMessageHandler)
            End Try
        Next
 
    End Sub

So far I have gotten this far and my problem is I cannot pass in the Type to the directcast statement.

Public Sub RaiseRemotedEvent(ByVal sender As [Delegate], ByVal eventtype As Type, ByVal e As DocGenCommon.DocGen.DocGenEventArgs)
 
        For Each del As [Delegate] In sender.GetInvocationList()
            Try
                del.Method.Invoke(del.Target, New Object() {e})
            Catch
                ' this is where the error is "Type 'eventtype' is not defined."
                sender = DirectCast(System.Delegate.Remove(sender, del), eventtype)
            End Try
        Next
 
    End Sub

Any suggestions?

[Andy]

try ...., eventtype.gettype) instead...
that parameter is expecting a type not a variable name.

[TType85]

try ...., eventtype.gettype) instead...
that parameter is expecting a type not a variable name.

Tried that.

I've tried eventtype.GetType, GetType(eventtype), passing an object declaring a type and using GetType. So far nothing works.

I should rewrite this in C# and see if it complains.

[TType85]

It appears to work if I use this:

sender = System.Delegate.Remove(sender, del)

I will have to do more testing to make sure it works right.

[TType85]

This is what I found that worked.

Public Sub RaiseRemotedEvent(ByVal sender As [Delegate])
 
        RaiseRemotedEvent(sender, New Object() {})
 
    End Sub
 
    Public Sub RaiseRemotedEvent(ByVal sender As [Delegate], ByVal args As Object())
 
        For Each del As [Delegate] In sender.GetInvocationList()
 
            Try
                del.Method.Invoke(del.Target, args)
            Catch
                sender = System.Delegate.Remove(sender, del)
            End Try
 
        Next
 
    End Sub