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March 2006 - Posts

Friday, March 31, 2006 11:03 AM

What is Groove?

Here's a nice demo , introducing Microsoft Office Groove 2007.
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 11:31 AM

CreateWorkspace activity

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
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 11:20 AM

A simple WSS+Groove workflow

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
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:50 AM

Windows Workflow Foundation

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
Posted by hpyle | 1 Comments
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:25 AM

yield return

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 right
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:12 AM

DevCon report, en francais

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 written
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Thursday, March 16, 2006 11:14 AM

Office DevCon; Bill Gates and Kurt DelBene keynote webcasts

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
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Monday, March 13, 2006 10:14 AM

Groove, Ray

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.
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Wednesday, March 08, 2006 12:00 PM

Copy and Paste the Web

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.
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