How can I get an actual EventHandler delegate instance from an event in VB.NET?

Question

In C#, I could do something like this:

EventHandler handler = this.SomeEvent;

...which would allow me to, for example, do:

Delegate[] attachedHandlers = handler.GetInvocationList();

In VB.NET, I can't seem to figure out how to do a similar thing.

This doesn't work:

Dim handler As EventHandler = Me.SomeEvent

...due to the following error:

Public Event SomeEvent(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)' is an event, and cannot be called directly. Use a 'RaiseEvent' statement to raise an event.

But this doesn't work either:

Dim handler As EventHandler = AddressOf Me.SomeEvent

...because:

'AddressOf' operand must be the name of a method (without parentheses).

So how can I actually get an EventHandler from an event in VB.NET? The only idea that's immediately coming to mind is to use reflection, but that seems pretty ridiculous.

Answer 1

   Private Event MyEvent()
   Private delegates() As System.Delegate = MyEventEvent.GetInvocationList()

undocumented, found here

Answer 2

if you take a look at this How to Attach the Events of an Original Object to a Deep Copied Clone I have a code example on how to get the delegate for the event via reflection. As far as I know, its the only way to do it in VB.