Notes on Event Handlers in SharePoint Add-Ins
In SharePoint 2010 world, most of the custom SharePoint application used EventReceiver . This guy played a vital role during that timeframe. EventReceiver is very simple. You can consider this as based on your trigger event, what action you want to execute – this could be a validation, schema change, item entry, workflow initiation, or even communicate with other application. In respect to SharePoint Online, we call this as RemoteEventReceiver(RER) . Same utilization through different channel. SharePoint Online utilize different DLLs, interface, and the implementation through add-ins. In this post, I walk through some notes about RemoteEventReceiver(RER) . Provider-hosted Add-ins Custom code can handle three categories of events in provider-hosted add-ins: · List events, such as the adding or deleting of a list on a website. · List item events, such as the editing of an item in a list. · Add-in events, such as the installation of an add-in. SharePo