How to remove duplicate EventReceiver entries

Question

Lately i had a bug that time-to-time added duplicate event receiver entries in SPEventReceiverDefinitionCollection.

So how do i easily enumerate and remove these duplicate entries?

Answer 1

$eventReceiversToDelete = $list.EventReceivers | 
    group-object assembly, class, type | #Groups event receiver by assembly/class/type
    ? { $_.Count -gt 1 } |    #If any of assembly/class/type pairs are encountered more than once, we have a duplicate
    % { $_.Group[1..100] }  #enumerate starting from second item (indexed at 1), so we don't delete event receiver completely

for ($i = $eventReceiversToDelete.Count - 1; $i -ge 0; $i--) {
    Write-Host "Deleting $($eventReceiversToDelete[$i].Type) Event Receiver $($eventReceiversToDelete[$i].Name)" }
    #Uncomment to delete
    #$eventReceiversToDelete[$i].Delete()
}

Thanks to this blog post for showing the way: Finding (and Deleting) Duplicate Files