Before writing event receiver, you should have the Sharepoint list for which you are going to write the event receiver.If you have long term goal of creating multiple event receiver for lists, maintain a folder for these event receiver. 1. Create a folder EventReceiver 2. Right click on the folder EventReceiver à Select Add option à Select New Item option 3 . On the opened window, select the Visual C#-->Sharepoint 2010 and now select the Event Receiver Template In the Name textbox which is present below,Give the LISTNAMEEventReceiver. i.e suppose you are going write event receiver for ActionTracker list, then the event receiver’s name would be ActionTrackerEventReceiver After entering the name , click on Add button. 4. Wait for some time to connect to your local server 5. On the opened window, Select the List Item Events option from the dropdown of ‘ What