Event Sink Guidelines

[This is preliminary documentation and subject to change.]

The following guidelines apply to all sinks:

• Do not use timers or other waiting methods to put an event on hold. This will either stop the store thread or a related time sensitive thread.
• Do not pop Graphical User Interfaces (dialogs) or any other type of user prompt, since the event process is running on the server and it stops either the store thread or a related thread.

The following information is useful when working with event sinks:

• All events run out of process relative to the Exchange store. See Running Sinks Without COM+ Application Wrappers in the COM+ Applications section for related information.