Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Event Receivers: Delete all event receivers associated to a list

scenario: How to delete all the event receivers associated to a list?

Approach:


List eventreceivers = new List();

foreach (SPEventReceiverDefinition EventReceiver in list.EventReceivers)
{
eventreceivers.Add(EventReceiver);
}

foreach (SPEventReceiverDefinition er in eventreceivers)
{
er.Delete();
}


Note: We can not have only 2nd foreach loop alone. The current list of event receivers associated to a list gets updated everytime a delete operation is performed. So, an exception will be raised if you use only delete operation.

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