Inspecting all EventReceivers in SharePoint 2007

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

The Event Reciever (SPEventReceiver derived, often refered to as Event Handlers) management in out of the box SharePoint 2007 is pretty poor. If your site uses events to drive business logic you probably have no simple way of inspecting the event recievers installed on your site.

There are several fine solutions available on the web that you can install which will add the missing functionality to a SharePoint site, however I haven’t been able to find anything which I can fire up quickly – enter a site URL and see the event properties. Useful if I’m on a client site, or just want to ensure that my own event receivers have installed in the correct places.

This morning I wrote a quick and dirty application to do just that. You can download the 24kb file here, run it on a SharePoint 2007 machine as administrator. I may want to add the ability to remove selected event receivers later.

You can also download the source code project, its a little bit rough and ready but does the job without falling over.

Tags: EventReceivers, inspector tool, list EventReceivers
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