Test bed for asynchronous event receivers

Question

Is it somehow possible to configure SharePoint on a test/debug environment so the order of execution of event receivers is orchestrated?

There are moments when a couple ItemUpdated events occur, or also ItemAdded and ItemUpdated, and the order of execution is not always the same.

Thanks in advance, Joao

Answer 1

If you developed the eventreceivers, you have defined something like this

<Elements xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sharepoint/">
  <Receivers ListTemplateId="104">
    <Receiver>
      <Name>MyEventHandlers1</Name>
      <Type>ItemAdded</Type>
      <SequenceNumber>10</SequenceNumber>
      <Assembly>MyEventHandlers1, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=4358f2a5344ff0dc</Assembly>
      <Class>MyEventHandlers1.SimpleEventHandler</Class>
      <Data></Data>
      <Filter></Filter>
    </Receiver>
    <Receiver>
      <Name>MyEventHandlers2</Name>
      <Type>ItemAdded</Type>
      <SequenceNumber>10000</SequenceNumber>
      <Assembly>MyEventHandlers2, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=4358f2a5344ff0dc</Assembly>
      <Class>MyEventHandlers2.SimpleEventHandler</Class>
      <Data></Data>
      <Filter></Filter>
    </Receiver>
  </Receivers>
</Elements>

As you can see, both receivers are ItemAdded event receivers. The upper receiver has a much lower sequencenumber, which will tell the sharepoint server what event should run first.

I hope this will help you