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Thursday, May 29, 2008 1:00 PM

Create compact and powerful conditions in your workflows using SharePoint Designer

Ok although some people might know that I personally try never to use SharePoint Designer for designing, developing and deploying workflows, there are some of you that accept its limitations and use it in the most imaginative ways to create very powerful workflows that nicely complement your MOSS solutions. I sincerely applaud those efforts and in that spirit please check out the latest post from the Microsoft SharePoint Designer team titled Create compact and powerful conditions in your workflows...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2008 4:14 PM

Final Release of VSeWSS 1.1 (Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services)

It kind of took them some time. Some of you might remember my old (ish) post ( http://dotnet.org.za/zlatan/archive/2007/08/29/ctp-for-version-1-1-of-the-quot-visual-studio-extensions-for-windows-sharepoint-services-quot-vsewss.aspx ) announcing CTP for version 1.1 of the "Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services" (VSeWSS). So much like the CTP version these extension are in fact (as you're guessing) for Visual Studio 2005. The whole awesome thing that VSeWSS 1.1 brought...
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Sunday, October 07, 2007 12:45 AM

Windows Workflow Foundation Updates

Here's a list of some very useful updates for Windows Workflow Foundation that some of you might appreciate (I know I did): New, great SharePoint Document Workflow with Visual Studio 2008 Workshop from MSDN Public Sector Development Blog, much like mine ( How to Create a SharePoint 2007 Workflow using Visual Studio 2008 Beta (Example) ) but with a bit more nice detail, like creating logs etc. Here's the download link ( http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector/archive/2007/10/05/sharepoint-document...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007 6:31 PM

SharePoint 2007 Workflow (WWF) VS OpenText Livelink Workflow

SharePoint 2007 Workflow (Visual Studio 2008) Livelink Workflow (Livelink Server 9.7) Workflow Platform Type Framework Engine Electronic Forms Support Yes (InfoPath) Yes (LL Forms Module) Interoperability with Desktop Applications Yes (Microsoft Office Suite Only) No Interoperability with Email Yes Yes Integration with Line of Business Applications Yes No (Actually maybe with some insanely complicated level of integration) Electronic Signatures Yes (WRMS, a bit complicated) Yes (eSign) Supports Attachments...
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Saturday, September 15, 2007 4:29 PM

Iterate through items in a MOSS 2007 list when using Windows Workflow Foundation

Brad from Shoprite asked me on my forum ( http://zlatandzinic.com/forums/ ) about this, so as usual I try to make my answers available to a larger pubic so here it goes: Here's an example of the code to use (mostly for event handlers): using(SPSite mySite = new SPSite( http://yourspserver/ )) { using(SPWeb myWeb = mySite.OpenWeb()) { SPList yourList = myWeb.Lists["NameOfYourList"]; //you can also use the List ID if you don't want to specify the list by name foreach (SPListItem item...
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Saturday, September 15, 2007 3:41 PM

Compare the differences between building MOSS 2007 Workflows in Visual Studio 2005 Vs Visual Studio 2008

Old (VS 2005) way was: Create workflow in Visual Studio 2005 Author the feature definition file Add GUID Add title Add description Add manifest location Author workflow template definition file Add GUID Add name Add description Compile the workflow files into a .NET assembly Sign the assembly Add key file Design the actual workflow, add code etc. (This is the "real" developer task) Install assembly into the Global Assembly Cache Extract public key token Add key token to workflow template...
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Saturday, September 15, 2007 2:00 PM

How to Create a SharePoint 2007 Workflow using Visual Studio 2008 Beta (Example)

A lot of people have complained that access to the Virtual Labs that I mentioned earlier in my blog is very slow and unstable. So this tutorial that I’m about to give you is based on the case in Microsoft Virtual Labs. I’ve also had a lot of requests of posting example code for creating workflows in VS2008 Beta (last one from Stephen Korow). You’re about the witness an evolution in building workflows for Microsoft, no need for command line deployment, specific configuration of workflow features,...
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Friday, August 31, 2007 10:13 PM

Latest Visual Studio 2008 VSTO Virtual Labs

Make sure you have killer bandwidth before you start going through these, they are all very very useful, and serve as an excellent introduction into Office System (VSTO) Development with new Betas of Visual Studio 2008. ISV Virtual Lab: Building Custom Office Applications Using Microsoft VSTO Part 1-Data Binding with Word Content Controls In Part 1 of this lab series, you will learn to create a structured Word template project using Visual Studio Tools for Office. You will also learn to lock the...
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 9:22 AM

MOSS 2007 SDK 1.2 and WSS 3.0 SDK 1.2 Released

Eben is already talking about it in his previous post , where he's pointing out the main feature of the new release, but besides this there is a whiole whack of new updates including most importantly the documentation and more how-to's as well as new samples, tools and utilities. I can't wait to sink my teeth into this!!!!! Here is full Microsoft's write up (as emailed to me by Eben): · MOSS 2007 SDK 1.2. Includes Conceptual and Class Library Reference documentation, Web Services...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2007 12:22 AM

Iterating through Users in a SharePoint Group

I've had some questions with respect to iterating through users in a group, in some of my previous posts I talked about what to do if the users specify an AD group instead of the SharePoint group (check Sharepoint Workflow (WWF) and Active Directory ). Please bear in mind that it's considered best practice to only deal with SharePoint Groups when it comes to user manipulation in SharePoint, meaning that regardless whether you chose to have SSO (Single Sign-On) configured or not, when looking...
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Friday, July 06, 2007 5:47 PM

Developing SharePoint Solutions and Office Business Applications (OBA) Using .Net

I will be presenting at the following event. Come and join us!!!!!!! Official Invitation as follows: Office Business Applications are a new breed of application that help businesses unlock the value of their line-of-business (LOB) systems and turn document-based business processes into real applications. OBAs leverage the client, server, services and technologies of the 2007 Microsoft Office system to solve business problems. Applications and documents can be extended to add enterprise-specific features...
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Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:04 AM

For those of you that are getting started with Windows Workflow Foundation

Lately I've been getting a lot of requests to explain building SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio 2005 with WWF extensions. If I go back in time and look back into my initial research, I remember which document was more useful than the rest. This is actually a manual from the Hot Lab held at last year's Tech Ed (2006) in US which demonstrates using Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Designer 2007 as well as Visual Studio 2005 with WWF extensions to design a SharePoint Workflow. I've been...
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Monday, June 25, 2007 7:09 PM

Sharepoint Workflow (WWF) and Active Directory (Update)

Although it's a bit too late now with respect to my work done when posted my previous blog, Microsoft ECM team already provided us with a nice parser (mine is very similar to this one) and much more. It comes with the 2007 Office System Developer Resources\ECM Starter Kit. The following actions can help you achieve some nice SD user manipulation: FindManager FindManager looks up a given user's manager in active directory and returns the manager in a parameter. Handlers and properties: In...
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Friday, June 15, 2007 9:31 AM

Sharepoint Workflow (WWF) and Active Directory

I’m currently designing a Sharepoint Workflow using VS2005 with WWF extensions for the client and part of the requirement is to, once you assign a task to a group in Active Directory, be able to assign separate tasks for each user that belongs to that AD group and subgroups. Now, there doesn’t seem to be a way to do that using provided workflow steps so you have to use the AD API to resolve the users and loop the Create Task step until all the users get their separate task (if you know a better way...
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Monday, May 07, 2007 3:21 AM

My Trip To Redmond Ctnd......... Office Business Applications (OBA)

On the Day 2 of my pilgrimage to Redmond I managed to get an appointment with Moin Moinuddin. Moin Moinuddin is a Retail Industry Architect part of the D&PE organization at Microsoft. Moin is responsible for evangelizing Microsoft’s platform and products to the Architects in the Retail community. We had a long discussion regarding architectures for some specific SharePoint solutions that I’m currently busy with, of which one is for a large retailer, we also touched on various suggested SharePoint...
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