SharePoint Event Receivers + Inherited Documents + ItemUpdating

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:27:49 +0000

A while back I posted some info about using Event Receivers in SharePoint 2010 and a workaround to item values being null. Today, I needed to do something much more basic, and during an ItemUpdating event set the value of a column. I wrote the code that I knew would work - but, of course, it simply wouldn’t work. I did a spot of Googling about, and found the chaps at Tango Technology who had written a very simple solution to it. But - it wouldn’t work for me. I knew the event was firing - but no matter what I did, the new value just wouldn’t “take”.

SharePoint 2010 + Associate workflow to Content Type in a feature

Thu, 05 May 2011 16:17:57 +0000

Quick tip: this plagued me for a while. You may develop a custom workflow which should only be associated with particular content types. You can deploy it to your site and then manually associate it to your content type. It’s possible to do this in code but the process isn’t as straight forward as it should be. Not to mention the fact that it’s infuriatingly hard to debug EventReceivers (“no symbols have been loaded” misery!).

Event Receiver on Matt Thornton

SharePoint Event Receivers + Inherited Documents + ItemUpdating

SharePoint 2010 + Associate workflow to Content Type in a feature