Unable to use SPEmailEventReceiver

Question

I'm attempting to create a SPEmailEventReciever on an Email enabled library...The problem is that intellisense is not showing that class for me, so I am unable to inherit from it.

MSDN shows it in the Microsoft.SharePoint workflow namespace, so it should show up with all of the other classes (such as SPItemEventReciever, etc).

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spemaileventreceiver.aspx

Answer 1

For intellisense, There might be some problem with your VS templates for SharePoint. Anyway, problem with intellisense will not stop you to inherit the class in code. Create a class like below :

    public class EventReceiver1 : SPEmailEventReceiver
    {
       /// <summary>
       /// The list received an e-mail message.
       /// </summary>
       public override void EmailReceived(SPList list, SPEmailMessage emailMessage, String receiverData)
       {
           base.EmailReceived(list, emailMessage, receiverData);
       }


    }

Ensure that you have reference for Microsoft.SharePoint.dll

Answer 2

I deleted the project and re-added it. It worked fine this time.

I'm wondering if it was because I accidentally selected 'Sandboxed Solution' when initially creating the project.