Preventing Document Modification in Windows SharePoint

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 provides a versioning capability that prevents documents from being overwritten by creating a version of the file each time a change is made to either the file or the metadata. However, there may be specific situations, such as archival or records-management scenarios, in which you want to let users modify metadata but not modify the file contents; that is, there is always only one version of the file. This Microsoft Office Visual How To shows how you can enable this in specific scenarios by using event handlers and handling short-term and long-term check-outs. 

Event Handler to prevent deletion of document from document library

1. Start Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
2. On the File menu, point to New, and then click Project.
   
   
   
   
3. In Project Types, under Visual Basic or C#, select Event Receiver.
   
4. Type <Name for your project > as the project name. Click OK.
5. In the SharePoint Customization Wizard, choose Deploy as a farm solution. Click Next.
   
6. In the Choose Event Receiver Settings dialog, select List Item Events in the What type of event receiver do you want? choose from drop down dropdown.
   
   
7. In the What item should be the event source? choose from dropdown, choose Tasks.
8. Choose the An item is being deleted option in the Handle the following events list. Click Finish.
9. In the EventReceiver1 file that is created, insert the following code in the ItemDeleting method.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Microsoft.SharePoint;

namespace EventHandler
{
    class AnnouncementDeleteRevert: SPItemEventReceiver
    {
        public override void ItemDeleting(SPItemEventProperties properties)
        {
            string errorMessageToDisplay= ("Announcements can not be deleted from this list");
            properties.ErrorMessage = HandledMessage;
            properties.Cancel = true;


//or

properties.Status = SPEventReceiverStatus.CancelWithError;
properties.ErrorMessage = "Deleting items from " + properties.RelativeWebUrl + " is not supported.";

        }
    }
}