Event Receiver Methods Compared: Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and SharePoint Foundation 2010

Applies to: SharePoint Foundation 2010

Table 1 compares the list of available event receiver methods available in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with those available in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010. For alternate views of the SharePoint Foundation object model, see Catalog of SharePoint Foundation Events and Table of SharePoint Events, Event Receivers, and Event Hosts.

SharePoint Foundation Event Receivers

In addition to listing event receiver methods by SharePoint Foundation version, the table also shows you which of the event receiver methods are Before events (synchronous) and which are After events (either synchronous or asynchronous).

Table 1. Event receiver methods in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 vs. SharePoint Foundation 2010

Event Receiver Class

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Methods

New Methods in SharePoint Foundation 2010

SPItemEventReceiver

Before Events - Synchronous

After Events – Synchronous or Asynchronous

None.

SPWebEventReceiver

Before Events - Synchronous

After Events – Synchronous or Asynchronous

Before Events - Synchronous

After Events – Synchronous or Asynchronous

SPListEventReceiver

Before Events - Synchronous

After Events – Synchronous or Asynchronous

Before Events - Synchronous

After Events – Synchronous or Asynchronous

SPEmailEventReceiver

After Events – Synchronous or Asynchronous

None.

See Also

Concepts

Catalog of SharePoint Foundation Events

Table of SharePoint Events, Event Receivers, and Event Hosts