Accessing the Created By coloumn value in event receiver(item added) sharepoint 2010

Question

Hi I am trying to access the created by coloumn in item added event reciever.But when i debug it shows null value...below is the code

public override void ItemAdded(SPItemEventProperties properties)
{
   var CreatedBy = (string)properties.AfterProperties["Author"];
   // ....
}

Answer 1

Try using ListItem instead of AfterProperties

var CreatedBy = (string)properties.ListItem["Author"];

I believe the AfterProperties are for the synchronous events (end in ING - e.g. Adding, Deleting, etc.)

Furthermore you can get an SPUser object from this. Refer to the following site for details on how that might be done. Once you have an SPUser object you have access to all sorts of useful properties such as Name, Email, and more.

• http://aarohblah.blogspot.com/2009/11/converting-list-item-to-spuser-object.html

Answer 2

are you trying to access the value in the specific field? if so, try something like this:

using (SPWeb web = SPContext.Current.Web)
            {
                SPList list = web.Lists["yourListHere"];
                SPListItemCollection items = list.GetItems();