Question

I am having a nightmare trying to debug the event receiver of a Sharepoint list.
This is the code of what I am doing:

//Add an event receiver to the list
list.EventReceivers.Add(SPEventReceiverType.ItemAdded, "DatasEvent, Version = 1.0.0.0, Culture = neutral, PublicKeyToken =  6f4db1e1fedbed57", "DatasEvent.DatasEventReceiver");

public override void ItemAdded(SPItemEventProperties properties)
{
    try
    {
        int itemIdSql;
        SPListItem item = properties.ListItem;
        ...
    }
    catch (SqlException ex)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine(ex.Message);
    }
}

If I place a breakpoint in the event receiver it will not stop.

Answer 1

First of all ensure that the latest assembly version gets to the GAC. The easiest way for it is to use the “Deploy” option from the context menu of the project or simply hit F5.

Then please let us know where this code is allocated

//Add an event receiver to the list
list.EventReceivers.Add(SPEventReceiverType.ItemAdded, “DatasEvent, Version = 1.0.0.0, Culture = neutral, PublicKeyToken = 6f4db1e1fedbed57”, “DatasEvent.DatasEventReceiver”);

if it is placed in a feature receiver then make sure that it is activated before you try to attach to w3wp.exe that corresponds to the app pool your target web application corresponds to.