title: Sharepoint 2010 Event Receiver Item Adding and Updating in another List
body: <p>i have two list, i wanted to update the second list while adding a new item in first one.
  i am using the following code but nothing happens. </p>
  
  <pre><code>     public override void ItemAdding(SPItemEventProperties properties)
        {
          base.ItemAdding(properties);
          string MenuList = properties.ListTitle;
  
          if (MenuList == "Menu")
          {
              string mySiteUrl = "http://rizwan-pc";
              using (SPSite mysiteCollection = new SPSite(mySiteUrl))
              {
                  using (SPWeb mySite = mysiteCollection.RootWeb)
                  {
                      string title = properties.ListItem["Title"].ToString();
  
                      SPList Menu_lookUp = mySite.Lists["Menu LookUp"];
                      SPListItem newListItem = Menu_lookUp.Items.Add();
                      newListItem["Applicable"] = title;
                      newListItem.Update();
                  }
              }
          }
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i wanted to copy the new item in the second list which i currently added in the first list.
  any help would be great, Thanks in advance.</p>