Tag Archives: Event Receivers

How DisableEventFiring / EventFiringEnabled works

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I’ve got an event handler on a SharePoint list that’s fairly long running, and this then raised a question in the office – do these settings control event firing for the currently running event handler, or for the entire list?

Very often you see lines of code like this…

this.EventFiringEnabled = false;
item.Update();
this.EventFiringEnabled = true;

… but was this really necessary? Are people worried about events not being handled ‘cos firing is disabled, or is this just a convenient way of tracking whether events are enabled or not? Continue reading →

Registering EventHandlers against ContentTypes

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In SharePoint, Event Handlers (or Event Receivers – whichever terminology, a child of SPItemEventReceiver) can be registered against lists/libraries. You can do this through an SPWeb (site) scoped feature, declaratively or programmatically with an SPEventReceiverDefinition.

Unfortunately, you can’t declaratively register event receivers at the SPSite (Site collection) level – which would be fantastic – just turn on the feature and across all your site collection lists/libraries of a give type would get additional event receivers. Personally, I think this may be a bug; I don’t see why this shouldn’t work at the SPSite level.

Anyway, there is still another option – we could register our event against a particular Content Type. This is a less often used approach, which raises two questions – how do you do it, and what happens to child Content Types? Continue reading →