Get User who created list item

Question

In IAlertNotifyHandler implementation I need name of the user who created/add the current item/document to the list (for which this alert is being sent). What is the way to do this?

Answer 1

When you create your OnNotification method you can access the list item with code similar to this.

public bool OnNotification(SPAlertHandlerParams ahp)

    {

      SPSite site = new SPSite(ahp.siteUrl+ahp.webUrl);

      SPWeb web = site.OpenWeb();

      SPList list=web.Lists[ahp.a.ListID];

      SPListItem item = list.GetItemById(ahp.eventData[0].itemId);

      String user = item("Author");

     }

Not sure on your requirements but you may need to add some additional code to then get a domain\username if this is what you require.

Note: This is sub-optimal code to highlight only the code needed to get the list item. I know there are dispose issues here.