Timothy Ferro gave a presentation on SharePoint 2010 event receivers. He began with an overview of his background in SharePoint development. The presentation covered the main types and events of event receivers in SharePoint 2010, with a focus on list item events. Ferro demonstrated how to set up a SharePoint 2010 event receiver solution and provided examples of using event receivers to update fields, validate data, check permissions, send alerts and emails, and create sites, lists, folders and items.

1. SHAREPOINT 2010
EVENT RECEIVERS
FEDSPUG – Washington, DC
SharePoint Development
January 5 th , 2012
Timothy Ferro

2. Agenda
 My Background
 Overview of SharePoint 2010 Event Receivers
 Focus on List Item Events
 Demo
 References

3. My Background
 SharePoint Architect / Senior Developer
 Booz Allen Hamilton
 4+ Years Developing MOSS 2007 and SharePoint
2010 Solutions
 Specializing in List Item Event Receivers, jQuery,
and Mapping Web Parts
 www.timferro.com
 @timferro

4. Overview of SharePoint 2010 Event Receivers
 Main Types: Site Collection, Web, List, Field, Item,
and Workflow
 Main Events: Creation, Update, Deletion,
Modification, Conversion, Attachment
 Synchronous vs. Asynchronous
 Binding Event Receivers
 Disabling

5. Focus on List Item Events
Event Receiver Base Class Supported Events
SPItemEventReceiver ItemAdding
ItemAdded
Available Event Host Types ItemDeleting
SPSite ItemDeleted
SPWeb ItemUpdating
SPList ItemUpdated
SPContentType ItemFileConverted
ItemFileMoving
ItemFileMoved
ItemCheckingIn
ItemCheckedIn
ItemCheckingOut
ItemCheckedOut
ItemAttachmentAdding
ItemAttachmentAdded
ItemAttachmentDeleting
ItemAttachmentDeleted

6. Demo
 Setting up SharePoint 2010 Event Receiver Solution
 Feature Activation Code
 Event Receiver Code
 Event Receiver Examples
 Update Fields
 Validate Data
 Check Permissions
 Alerts and Emails
 “Workflow”
 Create Sites/Lists/Folders/Items

7. References
 timothy.ferro@gmail.com
 www.timferro.com
 @timferro
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/gg749858.aspx
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/gg981880.aspx
 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spitemeventreceiv
er.aspx