WF Team Bloggers

SharePoint Developer FAQ - Got Questions?

2008-08-30T21:07:00Z

We've started a SharePoint Developer FAQ on the new MSDN Forums. Do you have questions and you can't find answers perhaps the FAQ will help. http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/sharepointdevelopment/thread/5834679b-482b-4924-b881-fa2146840d05 You can...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Alltop Blog Aggregation for SharePoint

2008-08-30T20:40:00Z

Looking for a good collection of SharePoint blogs. Here's one which list lots of them. Cool new service from Guy Kawasaki....( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Need SharePoint Web Hosting?

2008-08-30T18:14:00Z

Here's a place I came across which provides Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hosting. http://www.123together.com/SharePoint/...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

New SharePoint Site Published - WorleyParsons

2008-08-29T22:22:00Z

www.WorleyParsons.com was developed by SSW Sydney Web Design. But it's not just any SharePoint site. The team who built it tried some enterprising new development practices for streamlining their application lifecycle management with Visual Studio 2008...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Updated SharePoint SDK 1.4

2008-08-29T22:18:00Z

See Randall Isenhours blog entry about the updated SharePoint SDK documentation....( read more ) Read More......(read more)

New language support for Visual Studio extensions for SharePoint

2008-08-26T19:45:00Z

The Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint are downloadable here . They have been available in English and today we added Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Japanese and Korean. We expect to add French, German, Italian and Spanish in the...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint 1.2 and x64 Development Environments

2008-08-15T16:49:00Z

There has been lots of talk of using x64 servers for SharePoint. So naturally there has also been lots of talk about using x64 for SharePoint development environments. Currently the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, v1.2...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Conchango and Equiniti Case Study of Visual Studio Team System development for SharePoint

2008-08-15T16:17:00Z

Here's a case study I came across of a successful development using Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server for SharePoint Development....( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Cloud-Related PDC 2008 Sessions

2008-08-14T16:41:00Z

The PDC team is regularly posting a list of sessions . Lately, they posted a session to give me the opportunity to talk to you about Cloud-based Workflow Services. Workflow Services: Orchestrating Services and Business Processes Presenter: Moustafa Ahmed See how simple it is to use cloud-based workflow to perform complex orchestration across on-premises and cloud services. Also, learn how to run processes in the cloud while simplifying your system and increasing reliability in a distributed environment....(read more)

Reza Alirezaei Blogs on SharePoint Development on Virtual PCs

2008-08-12T22:49:00Z

I'm a fan of Virtual PC development for SharePoint and Reza has written a new blog series outlining a great way to leverage some of the wok we've done at Microsoft on trial VPC images. http://blogs.devhorizon.com/reza/?p=636...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Advanced Workflow Service Talk (Demo 4 of 4)

2008-08-11T15:52:10Z

When we start doing this two way style of messaging, we now open up to start modeling some interesting business problems. In the previous post, you'll note that I did not include the code, because I mentioned we needed to be more clever in scenarios where we listen in parallel. First, a brief diversion into how the Receive activity works. Everybody remembers the workflow queues, the technology that underlies all communication between a host and a workflow instance. The Receive...(read more)

Advanced Workflow Services Talk (Demo 3 of 4)

2008-08-07T21:17:30Z

So, we've seen in part 1 how to manage context, we saw in part 2 how we can take that basic knowledge to do duplex messaging. Once we start doing duplex work, there are some interesting patterns, and the first one is one that we like to call "long running work". Why are we interested in this? Well, as you probably know, the execution of a workflow is single threaded (this is a feature, not a bug). We also don't have a mechanism to force the workflow to be "pinned"...(read more)

Q & A on Advanced Workflow Services talk

2008-08-07T19:13:30Z

Martin posted an interesting question here on my last post: <quote> The first thing that we need to do in order to enable this duplex messaging to occur is that the "client" workflow has to explicitly provide its context token to the service so that the service can address the appropriate instance of the client workflow. Note, in the real world, you'll probably need to supply more than just the context token, you will need some address and binding information. </quote> Shouldn't...(read more)

Advanced Workflow Services Talk (Demo 2 of 4)

2008-08-06T18:30:04Z

A continuation of my series of demos from my advanced workflow services talk. Here we focus on duplex message exchange patterns. Duplex messaging is something that we model at the application level (as opposed to the infrastructure level) because we want to model that message exchange at the level of the application. Here's some scenarios where I could use duplex messaging: [concrete] I submit an order, and you tell me when it ships [abstract] I ask you do to do some long running work,...(read more)