SharePoint 2010 Event Receiver - Deployment Process

This guide shows the deployment process of Event Receiver in basics words.

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What is deployed?

Deploying an Event Receiver involves the following components:

• Feature.xml   
  Feature definition
• Elements.xml   
  Defines:
  • Which event to handle e.g. item updated
  • Which assembly and which class handles the event
• Assembly   
  Code of the Event Receiver

Where is deployed?

If the feature is deployed to a Web Application it becomes available at the scope you defined [1]. The feature.xml and the elements.xml are written to the file system in the features folder. Assemblies are deployed to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).

Things to know!

• By default an Event Receiver is bound to a type of list (e.g. Document Library in general).
• You need to change the elements.xml to change this binding.

Resources

[1] Table of SharePoint Events, Event Receivers, and Event Hosts,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff408183.aspx