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Creating SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio 2008

My friend Doug is having some problems with SharePoint workflows and using the OnTaskCreated activity.  He says it doesn't work, but I haven't had problems with this.  Hoping that this video helps him as well as shows some of my readers how to quickly create a workflow for SharePoint 2007 with Visual Studio 2008.

The whole video is only 8:44, starting from creating a project from scratch all the way to creating a simple workflow.

Doug - if you see any variation between what I did and what you did, please let me know.  I'd be glad to look up the hotfixes that are installed on the VPC if that helps as well. 

Double-click the video to watch full screen.

Published Saturday, August 30, 2008 9:58 AM by kaevans

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# a-foton » Creating SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio 2008

Saturday, August 30, 2008 11:41 AM by a-foton » Creating SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio 2008

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# re: Creating SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio 2008

Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:10 PM by Doug Ware

Thanks Kirk!

As you know that's pretty much the same as the demo I sent you with a difference that I am setting task properties. I am getting the same error effect on a couple of environments, but I'm going to drop it onto a client's dev environment Tuesday to see if I can repro it there as well.

It's worth noting that this often works for me as well. If I create 10 items in a row, a number of them will complete, but some won't and the path is indeterminate. In other words, sometimes only task1 is handled, sometimes 1 and 2, 2 and 3, 1 and 3, etc.

I really appreciate you looking at this (on a Saturday morning no less) and I look forward to finding a fix. This problem in my opinion is extremely serious because once the event fails to fire, the workflow is in an unrecoverable, but non-error, state.

Have fun at Tech-Ed!

# re: Creating SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio 2008

Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:12 PM by Doug Ware

P.S. I'll put up a screen shot soon that shows what I am seeing.

# re: Creating SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio 2008

Saturday, August 30, 2008 12:16 PM by Lamont Harrington

Robert Shelton has an entire series of "How To" SharePoint Workflow videos, including revised How To's leveraging VS 2008. Worth taking a look.

http://www.sheltonblog.com/archive/2007/11/04/series-of-sharepoint-workflow-how-to-videos.aspx

# re: Creating SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio 2008

Saturday, August 30, 2008 3:07 PM by Doug Ware

I believe I found the root cause. You can read about it here: http://www.elumenotion.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=69

I also included a possible work around for those affected.

--Doug

# re: Creating SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio 2008

Saturday, August 30, 2008 4:28 PM by kaevans

@Lamont - ABSOLUTELY agreed, I leverage Robert's material frequently.  For anyone wanting to see how to build real-world workflows with SharePoint and Visual Studio, check out Robert's fantastic work.

# re: Creating SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio 2008

Saturday, August 30, 2008 4:28 PM by kaevans

@Lamont - ABSOLUTELY agreed, I leverage Robert's material frequently.  For anyone wanting to see how to build real-world workflows with SharePoint and Visual Studio, check out Robert's fantastic work.

# re: Creating SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio 2008

Saturday, August 30, 2008 4:28 PM by kaevans

@Lamont - ABSOLUTELY agreed, I leverage Robert's material frequently.  For anyone wanting to see how to build real-world workflows with SharePoint and Visual Studio, check out Robert's fantastic work.

# re: Creating SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio 2008

Saturday, August 30, 2008 4:29 PM by kaevans

@Doug - hoping that it is as simple as finding a missing hotfix, because I have customers running this same scenario in production under significant load without similar symptoms.

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