> Hello,
>
> In my task, I'm scanning all properties of an object and picking up to
> show their names in a treeview if it fits some criterias I defined. When
> scanning, I've a problem which causes stack overflow error...
>
> This happens when a class does have a circular reference...The best sample
> for this can be the treenode class. This class has a refence to it's
> parent node also to the treeview control itself. When scanning treenode
> class, because of this circular reference, I keep getting back to treeview
> control and start scannig all of it's properties which happens infinite
> times and at last getting a stack overflow error. The WindowsForms
> serializer somehow understands these kind of circular references and
> instead of trying to serialize that property, it just sets a reference to
> the original class.
>
> I'm trying to detect the same sitution and stop going through these
> circular referenced properties. Is there any method in .Net to let me
> understand this or any method anybody knows?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
> Regards,
>
> Özden
>

"Mario Vázquez" <alguien@microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ueG9l$KLHHA.4244@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hi Özden,
>
> I suppose you are trying to load recursively the hole treeview. Why you
> don't try to load only the first level of the current node?. In that way,
> it does'nt matter if you (or somebody) open a node which it was yet
> visited, because only the next level will be charged.
> Another aproach it will be to determine programatically with the
> ReferenceEquals method if the property you are trying to inspect it's
> equivalent to a parent object, and cancel the inspection in that case...
>
> Regards,
> Mario Vazquez
>
> "Özden Irmak" <ozdenirmak(at)isnet.net.tr> escribió en el mensaje
> news:Ove71IHLHHA.1008@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>>
>> In my task, I'm scanning all properties of an object and picking up to
>> show their names in a treeview if it fits some criterias I defined. When
>> scanning, I've a problem which causes stack overflow error...
>>
>> This happens when a class does have a circular reference...The best
>> sample for this can be the treenode class. This class has a refence to
>> it's parent node also to the treeview control itself. When scanning
>> treenode class, because of this circular reference, I keep getting back
>> to treeview control and start scannig all of it's properties which
>> happens infinite times and at last getting a stack overflow error. The
>> WindowsForms serializer somehow understands these kind of circular
>> references and instead of trying to serialize that property, it just sets
>> a reference to the original class.
>>
>> I'm trying to detect the same sitution and stop going through these
>> circular referenced properties. Is there any method in .Net to let me
>> understand this or any method anybody knows?
>>
>> Thanks in advance...
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Özden
>>
>
>