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Tuesday, July 26, 2005 8:51 AM

GWS Application: Part 2

Let's ask Groove for a list of accounts, identities, and workspaces, and display them in our form. A groove account contains one or more identities , which are alternate names for the same user. You can create multiple identities, to appear with different
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Monday, July 25, 2005 3:09 PM

GWS Application: Part 1

Almost ready to write some code to call Groove Web Services now. My aim is to create an Outlook addin, which reads data from the Groove Forms tool we made earlier; the tool is a contact directory, and we'll pull those records out of Groove, into a contact-picker
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Monday, July 25, 2005 1:02 PM

Enterprise Data Bridge

So, the Groove client is a web services server. But most users carry their Groove around -- I have my account on a laptop, which follows me everywhere, so connecting this to "central" enterprise systems is only possible if I'm in the office, on the white
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Monday, July 25, 2005 11:02 AM

Groove Web Services

A quick overview of Groove Web Services (GWS), before EDB, I think. The primary programming interface to Groove nowadays, apart from writing script inside of the Forms tool, is to talk SOAP. (I've written about Groove web services in the past , but not
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Friday, July 22, 2005 1:49 PM

One more thing...

The Rabbit is muttering to itself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!" , so I must press on. So much to do. I have to write about the Groove EDB Server next, and then Web Services, and start showing some (C#) Real Code. I have a presentation the first
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Friday, July 22, 2005 11:36 AM

Deep dive: how Groove Forms synchronizes data

As I mentioned earlier , Groove's essential magic is that all members of a workspace see the same information in the space. That's maintained even though members can work offline (each member has a copy of each of their workspaces, so all the information
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Friday, July 22, 2005 10:24 AM

Contact Form and View

Back to work, then; let's make a Contact form, with some suitable fields on it. In the last instalment , we were just about to add fields to a new form So let's do that; create a text field. (Select field type "text" and press the "Next>" button, or
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Friday, July 22, 2005 8:26 AM

Digression: the types of fields

Groove Forms forms are constructed by laying out fields on a page. Actually, fields are just about the only things on the page (apart from field-groups and tab-groups, which we'll get to some time later). So a "field", in the form designer, encompasses
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Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:57 PM

Forms, Fields, and Views

The Groove Forms tool is a simple form designer. Sometimes it looks complex, but really the structure is quite straightforward. Let's begin at the beginning. A Groove workspace contains tools, and members. You create a workspace, you're the only member.
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Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:41 PM

Getting Started with Forms

Let's get coding. I want to build a system which has Groove workspaces connected to a central system. This'll be a framework to show the various moving parts, and code to knit them together, and hopefully building something which has at least a nominal
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Friday, July 08, 2005 4:18 PM

In the beginning...

So, you found my MSDN blog. This will be a continuation of the technical parts of my regular weblog (which is at http://www.cabezal.com/blog/ ). Specifically, I have lots to say about Groove as a development platform; the Groove Forms tool; tips and tricks
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Tuesday, July 05, 2005 9:39 AM

The White Rabbit put on his spectacles.

"Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?" he asked. "Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
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