Here's a nice demo , introducing Microsoft Office Groove 2007.

My CreateWorkspace activity has several properties: the Groove identity in which the workspace will be created; the name of the new workspace; the path to find the workspace template; and (for other activities to consume) the actual workspace which was...

Here's a picture of my demo workflow in Visual Studio. The "listenForIncident" activity waits until an Incident is created in a SharePoint list. (I need to re-code this to use events. Right now it polls the WSS site, and sleeps if it doesn't find anything...

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is an important new framework, part of WinFX. I'm not an expert on this yet -- specifically I haven't done the homework around the eventing model and external host services -- but I know enough to be dangerous. I think...

Here's a .NET 2.0 language feature I discovered recently: "yield". It's spectacularly useful in some situations -- to build a pipeline of lazy iterators, for example -- but also neat enough I'm using it all over. One example where it actually is the...

For my "Groove development overview" presentation at the Office System Developers Conference, I was lucky to be joined by Jean-Michel Davault from Hommes et Process, who has some great stories to tell about their Groove customers in France. J-M has...

Next week is the Microsoft Office System Developers Conference 2006. It's a deep-dive event, with several hundred ISVs, systems integrators and enterprise developers focusing on the whole Office 2007 developer landscape. I'm looking forward to presenting...

Take a few minutes to read this big article in today's Boston Globe , talking about Ray Ozzie and Groove. It's a good summary of how we got here and some of the services-business challenges Ray is now leading.

In case you didn't see it, the latest great little mindbomb from Ray and Jack (Groove founders, now both based in Redmond) is a simple, extensible way to copy and paste structure data from the Web, between pages and sites, and even to/from desktop applications...