Installing 2009 events code in Tridion 2011

Question

We recently upgraded a Tridion 2009 site to 2011, and are now trying to migrate the events code. Unfortunately Tridion doesn't seem to be hooking into the events.

I've done the following:

• Update the event triggers in the MMC snap-in.
• Deployed the events DLL to the 2011 server and registered it using regasm.exe.

Have I missed any steps out? I've written plenty of 2011 extensions but am not that familiar with how the 2009 events system works.

Answer 1

Legacy events are backwards compatible in Tridion 2011.

• Check if you class is using this Prog Id "TDSEvents.Events"
• Is your class COM visible?, you can check it in the AssemblyInfo class
• Does your assembly have an strong name?

As Nuno always recommends, after you have checked all the steps above, create a single vbs file and try to create an object for your class.

Set obj = CreateObject("TDSEvents.Events")

If the object is not null, then your are good.

Hope this helps.