How to catch the feature activate time

Question

I am trying to write one program such that, when ever a feature is activated then it should display the activated time in the sharepoint list. for that i written following code.

public class Feature1EventReceiver : SPFeatureReceiver
    {
        // Uncomment the method below to handle the event raised after a feature has been activated.

        public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)
        {
            SPSite site = properties.Feature.Parent as SPSite;
            SPWeb web = site.RootWeb;

            SPList list = web.Lists["Features Tracker"];
            if (list == null)
            {
                Guid listid = web.Lists.Add("Features Tracker", "Trakcs the feature activation time", SPListTemplateType.GenericList);
                web.Lists[listid].Fields.Add("Activated Time", SPFieldType.DateTime, true);
                SPView myview = web.Lists[listid].DefaultView;
                myview.ViewFields.Add("Activated Time");
                myview.Update();
            }
                SPListItem listitem = list.Items.Add();
                listitem["Activated Time"] = DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay;

        }
}

I created another feature with same functionality. Now there is no error. But, time stamp is not inserted into the "Features Tracker" list. Any solution??

Answer 1

You need to use the Update() method on the SPListItem object.

Also, you want the line:

listitem["Activated Time"] = DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay;

to be simply:

listitem["Activated Time"] = DateTime.Now;

otherwise you'll get an unhandled exception.

This is the code I have, which works (the method being the same one you've selected):

SPSite site = SPContext.Current.Site;
SPWeb web = site.RootWeb;
SPList list;
try
{

    list = web.Lists["Features Tracker"];
}
catch (ArgumentException)
{
    list = null;
}
if (list == null)
{
    Guid listid = web.Lists.Add("Features Tracker", "Trakcs the feature activation time", SPListTemplateType.GenericList);
    web.Lists[listid].Fields.Add("Activated Time", SPFieldType.DateTime, true);
    SPView myview = web.Lists[listid].DefaultView;
    myview.ViewFields.Add("Activated Time");
    myview.Update();
    list = web.Lists["Features Tracker"];
}
SPListItem listitem = list.Items.Add();
listitem["Activated Time"] = DateTime.Now;
listitem.Update();

Answer 2

But at the end of all operations do you do?

listitem.Update();