SharePoint 2010 Document Lifecycle from an Event Receiver Point of View


On a recent project I needed to write an Event Receiver for a document library which set item level security on the document library items. Given the nature of document content management and the various ways in which a document library can be configured (content types, approval, check-in/out, versioning etc) I needed to understand the … Continue reading SharePoint 2010 Document Lifecycle from an Event Receiver Point of View

SharePoint Event Receiver ItemUpdating Event and Hidden Columns


I was recently developing a list item Event Receiver, implementing the ItemAdded and ItemUpdating events. The purpose of this event receiver is to populate fields of items of a particular content type, and the fields in question are hidden from the user by setting the ShowInNewForm and ShowInEditForm properties of the  FieldRef elements when the fields … Continue reading SharePoint Event Receiver ItemUpdating Event and Hidden Columns