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New WSS Workflow Activities for SharePoint Designer

By on December 10, 2009 in Process Automation, SharePoint Development

One of the great things about Windows Workflow Foundation is the support for declarative no-code workflows that reference pre-compiled workflow activity libraries.  With enough of these activity libraries in place, you can use SharePoint Designer 2007 to build some pretty powerful applications without writing any additional code.  But it also presents a kind of chicken-and-egg [...]

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OBA Book Available from MS Learning

By on January 27, 2009 in Microsoft Office, Process Automation, SharePoint Development, Smart Client

In case you missed it, my most recent authoring adventure, 6 Microsoft Office Business Applications for Office SharePoint Server 2007 is now available from Microsoft Learning, Barnes & Noble, Amazon and Quantum Books. This was a collaborative effort with Rob Barker, Joanna Bichsel, Adam Buenz, Steve Fox, Bhushan Nene and Karthik Ravindran. If you're building [...]

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Atlanta Code Camp – 2007

By on January 23, 2009 in Code Generation, InfoPath, Microsoft Office, Process Automation, SharePoint Development

Registration for the 3rd annual Atlanta Code Camp is now open!
Here's the link to register (you'd better hurry):
https://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=113135
The 3rd annual Atlanta Code Camp will take place on January 20th. The event is completely free and lunch is included. Doors open at 7:30am at the Decatur campus of DeVry University. Here's the address:

250 North Arcadia Ave
Decatur [...]

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Add Your Own Custom Workflow Activities to SharePoint Designer 2007

By on January 4, 2009 in Process Automation, SharePoint Development

Update (4/4/2007):  I've just learned that another SharePoint blogger has written about this very topic 3 months ago.  The weird part is that the custom action he created also writes to the event log.  In all honesty, this was sheer coincidence (I really should learn to do a search before posting!).  In the interest of fairness [...]

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Are you an Office Geek?

By on January 1, 0001 in InfoPath, Microsoft Office, Process Automation, SharePoint Development

I know it. You know it. Your wife or girlfriend, husband or brother surely knows it. If you’re reading this, you might as well admit it – you’re a geek. The question is: are you an “Office Geek”?
We’re not like other geeks. We have so much more fun!
Think about it.
We’ve got shared add-ins to build, [...]

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SharePoint Designer To The Rescue

By on January 1, 0001 in Microsoft Office, Process Automation, SharePoint Development

So I needed to setup a quick demo of the new SharePoint 2007, InfoPath 2007 and workflow. The task was simple – create an InfoPath form with a few fields, save the form to a SharePoint form library with certain fields promoted so they would be visible to the workflow logic, then create a workflow [...]

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Will Workflow Solve the Software Crisis?

By on January 1, 0001 in Process Automation

20 years ago, software legend Brad Cox (Objective-C) described the emerging software crisis and advocated a fundamental change in the way we approach software development.

Hardware engineers have discovered how to reuse each other’s efforts; to stand on the shoulders of giants, instead of their toes.  We’re already face to face with the software crisis – [...]

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Content Types – The Soul of a New Paradigm

By on January 1, 0001 in Process Automation, SharePoint Development

As you probably know by now, SharePoint 2007 has a new feature called Content Types. Having been asked by more than a few friends and colleagues what they are, or more precisely, what benefits they offer, I decided to share my thoughts. So here goes…

List : Content Type :: Data Structure : Object

I [...]

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Professional SharePoint 2007 Book Excerpt

By on January 1, 0001 in Content Management, Process Automation, Records Management, SharePoint Development

Wrox Press has posted a promotional excerpt from the Professional SharePoint 2007 Development book due out in June. The topic is “Creating Content Type Metadata for SharePoint 2007 Document Management Solutions” from one of my chapters. To read the excerpt, go to http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-305185.html. Comments and feedback are welcome.

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Get Ready for ODC2008

By on January 1, 0001 in Content Management, Microsoft Office, Process Automation, SharePoint Development

As the new year approaches… Wait! Is it 2008 yet? So much is happening – so fast! Do you ever get that feeling that you’ll never catch up? I sure do. Time flies…
For the past few weeks, I’ve been busy writing chapters for a new book (more on that later), developing and experimenting with new [...]

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