Problem creating or deleting Sharepoint List in Visual Web Part's Feature Receiver when called from stsadm or powershell.

Summary of Issue.

Working Process
In a Visual Studio Web Part, I was trying to create a Sharepoint List using a Feature Receiver Event. Every thing works fine when I deployed the solution using Visual Studio 2010.

Problem
I tried deploying the solution using STSADM Command or Powershell scripts. The deployment went fine but the Sharepoint List was not getting created. After research I found out the issue was in the activation code. I was using SPContext.Current.Web.Url. Now the correct way to do this is mentioned below.


If the Feature Scope="Web"

public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)

{

    SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate

        {

            SPWeb _web = (SPWeb)properties.Feature.Parent;    

    });            

}

If the Feature Scope="Site"

public override void FeatureActivated(SPFeatureReceiverProperties properties)

{

    SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate

        {

            SPSite _site = (SPSite)properties.Feature.Parent;    

    });            

}

Hope you find this helpfull. Please comment if you have any queries.