Managed Client Object Model in Event Receiver - Event is not firing at all

Question

When I use ClientContext context = new ClientContext("SITEURL"); in my event receiver, the event doesn't trigger at all. So my question is can I use managed client object model in event receivers.

When doc created event occurs, I want to copy the document from the document library to a new doc library in a new farm using managed client object model. is this possible or do I have to use ECMA.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

I was working on sandbox solution, and didn't realize sandbox solutions have limitations. When I tried as farm solution, managed object model works just fine in event receiver. for more info http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee536577.aspx thanks for the reply guys.

Answer 2

You can accomplish this using WebClient PUT. In this example filePath represents the path to the file in question. And fileName was taken from properties.ListItem.File.Name.

When I did this I downloaded the file to the local file system and then deleted it after the operation succeeded. There might be a more efficient way to do that, but it worked fine given my requirements. The users creating the documents in question did not have access to the remote farm.

string _userName = "remoteUserName";
string _password = "SuperSecurePassword";
string _domain = "domain";
remoteFileURL = "http://www.domain.com/LibraryPath/" + fileName;

WebClient webclient = new WebClient();
webclient.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(_userName, _password, _domain);
webclient.UploadFile(remoteFileURL, "PUT", filePath);
webclient.Dispose();