Lately, I’ve been working with customers who are doing both Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 SP1 and Windows Azure and it seems that the experience level of customers run the full range of just getting started in both areas, to being experienced in either one...

Whenever I first starting trying to figure out how to create a bootable VHD image and boot into it, I received plenty of links from people but it just seemed that no matter which link or advice I would follow, there was always something that just wouldn...

I realize that this topic may be somewhat of a bore for some of you out there that have already ventured down this road, but I have found that there are still many customers just now getting into SharePoint, and Workflow and then needing to create their...

Yes, I know this title sounds a bit odd, and the real title should be ‘When you are using an InfoPath task edit form, how do you use InfoPath data connection bindings to both retrieve and send data to a SharePoint 2007 workflow?’ So one day I was building...

I was recently working with a customer who made the statement ‘Whenever I use a delay activity in my workflow, the workflow will automatically unload itself but will only reload into memory when a particular workflow runtime host is running.  It...

A couple of years ago (that sounds like an eternity in computer years), I had written up an article on the versioning of workflows http://blogs.msdn.com/ncdevguy/archive/2007/06/14/versioning-techniques-for-workflows.aspx . Since then, a lot of things...

Wow! It's been a long time since I've blogged about anything! It seems every time I think of something to blog about, I find some other blog that already talks about the same thing. I guess it's best I get over this because you never know who will find...

It was January when I initially posted the steps on how to host a workflow, exposed as a WCF service, within IIS. Since then, and more specifically, with the .Net 3.5 SP1 update, a nice feature has been added to ease this process. So what I will do...

I was told recently by someone reading my blog that some of my code was being cut off on the right hand side of the blog border. I've changed the look now to allow for easier reading. Hope this helps!

Ok, so if you've been following along up to this point in grand anticipation, this is going to be a happy time for you...we now get to test our custom action. Step 1 – Create the Workflow 1. Open SPD to the site /FleetCustomers"> http://<yourmachineanddomain...

So, in my last post we went through the first steps of what we need to do to create a custom action for Office SharePoint Designer (SPD). In Part 2, we will add the necessary .ACTION file and make a modification to our web applications web.config file...

Sorry about the long title, but I thought it may help when someone is doing a search for such a topic. On with the show.... Invariably, if you are using Office SharePoint Designer (SPD) to create workflows, your power users are going to say 'Hey, I...

I decided to move into the brave new world of Windows Server 2008. My intention was to setup a new VPC image to do some testing with WCF. As I recalled from my experiments with WPF, there is an issue with XAML intellisense be disabled if you install...

I started out in my attempt to figure out how to host a workflow service in IIS by looking at the following MSDN article: How to: Host a Workflow Service in IIS http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb675264.aspx This gave me 'most'...

Not sure if you've had the time to go out and view the new BizTalk Adapters site. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/biztalk/bb544997.aspx The new site includes a simplified categorization of the adapters, better organization, and some new adapter...

I just recently began my journey down the road of learning about WSS and MOSS. My primary focus of course is for the workflow portion of the product, but what I have found while building that base of knowledge, is that you do need to know quite a bit...

As of right now, there are no documents (whitepapers) available that pertain specifically to workflow versioning other than what you will find on MSDN at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/En-US/library/aa349375.aspx . However, out on the forum http://wf...

Hello All! I thought pretty hard about how to title this blog and considering that I wanted it to cover topics in Workflow, BizTalk, MOSS WF and anything inter-related, I decided to name it 'Topics in Integration'. If you have any other thoughts on...