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How We Did It: Christian Children’s Fund extranet powered by SharePoint

Overview Ironworks Consulting , a management and web consulting firm and Microsoft Gold Partner, recently launched a new global extranet for the Christian Children’s Fund (CCF), which is one of the most respected child development organizations in the

Developing Workflow Solutions with SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows Workflow Foundation

During the past several months, we've seen a lot of questions about developing custom SharePoint workflows in the comments of various posts on this blog as well as in the SharePoint Workflow community forum . Many of the answers can be found in a recently
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Announcing: Design and build sites for Office SharePoint Server 2007

[Cross-posted from the ECM Team Blog .] [ Updated March 11, 2008: Based on your feedback, we have created a downloadable version of this guide . It's the same content, but now available in a convenient .doc format.] My name is Rob Silver. I'm a technical
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SharePoint SDK Downloads Now Live with SP1 Updates

Hello SharePoint Developers! We are excited to announce the availability of the latest updates to the downloadable SDKs for SharePoint Products and Technologies. The February update is version 1.3 and captures changes made as part of Service Pack 1 (SP1).

Issues with the “Delay” activity in SharePoint workflows - we need your help!

Hi everyone, We’ve received quite a bit of feedback about delays not working consistently in SharePoint workflows, so I wanted to touch base with you about our status and ask for your assistance. As for status, this is a top priority issue for us, and
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How we did it: PFGC.com -- design, development, and go live in 10 weeks!

Dominion Digital , a Virginia-based Microsoft Gold Partner, recently launched the Performance Food Group’s new website at www.pfgc.com . Performance Food Group markets and distributes more than 68,000 national and private label food and food-related products

Download the MOSS SDK or the WSS SDK

[cross-posted from Randall Isenhour's blog ] Download the MOSS SDK or the WSS SDK We have officially made the released versions available (we refer to it internally as “RTM,” or released to manufacturing) of the MOSS SDK for Microsoft Office SharePoint

What About Workflow and ASPX Forms?

Hi everyone, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about using aspx forms in workflow, so I wanted to talk about them a bit here and hopefully address some of the questions you have. To prevent boring you to death;), I will try keep this pretty high level and
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Developing Workflows in VS: Part 7 - Summary and Final Thoughts

You might feel a little intimidated; there’s a lot to think about and understand. But don’t worry! Like I said before, there are just a few key things to really get your head around, and once you can see how they all fit together, the world of workflow

Developing Workflows in VS: Part 6 - Deploy and Debug your workflow

Step 4: Deploy Your Workflow Once you have your forms and code ready to go, it’s time to compile and deploy your workflow. To prepare for deployment: There are two required files for workflow features: 1) Feature.xml – just like every SharePoint feature,
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Developing Workflows in VS: Part 5 - Code Your Workflow

Step 3: Code Your Workflow With your data in place, write your workflow logic. It’s pretty straightforward, but here are a couple pitfalls that you should watch out for: Pitfall: Re-using non-serializable SharePoint objects after rehydration Many non-workflow
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Developing Workflows in VS: Part 4 - Design and Bind Your Forms

Step 2: Design and Bind Your Forms With your workflow skeleton in place, you should now be able to see where you will be collecting data and what data to collect. With this information, you can create your forms, set up a schema for the collected data,
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Developing Workflows in VS: Part 3 - Five Steps for Developing Your Workflow

Okay, the moment you’ve all been waiting for: how do you write a custom SharePoint workflow? In this section, we will break it down into five steps: 1) Model your workflow in Visual Studio 2) Create and bind your forms 3) Code your workflow 4) Deploy
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Developing Workflows in VS: Part 2 - Planning Your Workflow: Two Things to Keep in Mind

Before writing any code, a little planning to map your business process to SharePoint workflow can go a long way. The two most important things to keep in mind are that a) SharePoint workflows are document-centric , meaning they run process around a document
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Developing Workflows in VS: Part 1 - Workflow Objects and A Crash Course on Mechanics

The Workflow Objects Workflow Template vs. Association vs. Instance There are a few important terms in workflow that often get confused: template, association, and instance. If you don’t read anything else from this series, make sure you understand this
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