c# - Solution to remove Event handler dynamically (using reflection). Is there a better way to do this?

Question

I had the need to remove event handlers from a control loaded from a dll that I don't have the code for. Since there doesn't seem to be an 'official' (i.e. supported by public methods of the .NET Framework), I was was able to create a couple extension methods that did exactly that using Reflection.

See this blog post for all the details: Removing an Event from a WinForm ListView control using reflection

Here is a code sample of how to remove the SelectedIndexChanged event (dynamically and without access to the original handler)

//for a UserControl (in fact any control that implements System.ComponentModel.Component)
var userControl = new UserControl();
//we can get the current mapped event handlers
userControl.eventHandlers();
//its signature
userControl.eventHandlers_MethodSignatures();
//remove one by using the static field name
userControl.remove_EventHandler("EVENT_SELECTEDINDEXCHANGED");
//or use this one specifically mapped to the SelectedIndexChanged event
userControl.remove_Event_SelectedIndexChanged

My question is: "is there another way?"

Although my solution works and seems stable, I'm doing internal .NET objects manipulation, so maybe there is a better solution (in 4.0 or 4.5)?

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• How would that be possible to remove all event handlers of the Click event of a Button? - uses a similar solution to mine, but I don't think their solution works

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