March 2007 - Posts

• Tip: Clearing the SPD workflow assembly cache

  Hi folks, it's Gabe Hall again with a quick tip you can use when developing workflow activities on WSS for use in SPD :). If you are building a workflow activity on WSS for SPD you may have to update your activity DLL regularly (say to fix bugs or alter Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:51 PM by spdblog | 10 Comments

• Visual Studio extensions for Windows SharePoint Services

  Hello all, My name's Alex Malek, I'm a Lead PM on the SharePoint Designer team. During my day job, I focus on the workflow experience in SharePoint and SPD. However, for the last year or so, I've been working on a little side project called the "Visual Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 27, 2007 10:59 PM by spdblog | 50 Comments

• Training Site Template - Part 2: Workflows

  Hey there, It's Sean again with another installment of the template development walkthrough. Last time we covered the list schema for the Employee Training Scheduling and Materials template, one of the new Application Templates for Windows SharePoint Read More... Posted Friday, March 23, 2007 10:21 PM by spdblog | 94 Comments

• Adding Activities to SPD

  Hey everyone, Eilene Hao and Gabe Hall here, a program manager and developer on the SPD workflow team; nice to meet you! Today we’d like to answer one of our most frequently asked questions: adding activities into the SPD workflow designer. There’s a Read More... Posted Thursday, March 15, 2007 2:14 AM by spdblog | 38 Comments Attachment(s): CreateACLTask.zip

• Training Site Template - Part 1: Introduction

  Hi folks, Sean Gabriel here. I'm a Program Manager for the SharePoint Designer team, and I work primarily on our application building experience. I'm definitely looking forward to sharing my knowledge here - so if you have topics in the app building space Read More... Posted Saturday, March 10, 2007 1:01 AM by spdblog | 36 Comments

• SharePoint Designer Training Videos Now Available Online

  The SharePoint Designer product team is excited to announce the first wave of the SharePoint Designer Training Videos. The six training sessions cover the topics of Customizing SharePoint Sites Part 1, Customizing SharePoint Sites part 2, Building Layout Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 06, 2007 11:58 PM by spdblog | 9 Comments

• ASP.NET Controls Filter the Data View

  Hey there, My name is John Jansen and I'm one of the Test Leads for the SharePoint Designer (SPD) product group. My specialty is data presentation and application building. But I also love to play around with CSS and generic ASP.NET controls. I plan to Read More... Posted Monday, March 05, 2007 5:57 PM by spdblog | 144 Comments