Orchestration / Workflow

51 of 1201 | Cloud-Related PDC 2008 Sessions - 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.   Note that the sessions titles, scope, and defintions are not yet final. The PDC team also published a few other cloud services related talks in PDC. They are a lot to wr......

52 of 1201 | Do you know Silverlight has an inbuilt native RSS Reader? - Interesting, I keep asking this question a lot and the responses I get are something that un-nerves me. In that, in Silverlight there is a native RSS Reader built in, so the ability to consume an RSS Feed is so easy, it's almost cheating (Sharepoint readers, pay attention here). The secret to this can be found in the namespace: using System.ServiceModel.Syndication; The class in question is the SyndicationFeed. Code example of how to use this great API, can be found here: http://silverlight.net/Quickstarts/Remote/ed86e719-0da0-49e1-a9e1-b31f483070d4.aspx I personally have been using it with Sharepoint, in that I'm no Sharepoint 2007 guru at all, I've learnt Sharepoint through just go......

53 of 1201 | Request for scenarios : CAG - In Windows Workflow Foundation V1, we shipped an activity called the CAG or the Conditioned Activity Group. If you use the CAG activity in your workflow applications, I would appreciate if you could share example scenarios for which you find the CAG activity useful. Please contact me through my blog or post comments!...

54 of 1201 | How to check if a sharepoint 2007 workflow is running - Searching for a way to check if a workflow is running on a list item (useful, for example, in an item event handler), I found some code like this:         public static bool IsWorkflowRunning(SPListItem listItem, Guid workflowId)         {             foreach (SPWorkflow workflow in listItem.Workflows)             {                 if (workflow.ParentAssociation.BaseTemplate.Id == workflowId &&                     workflow.InternalState == SPWorkflowState.Running)                 {                     return true;                 }             }             return false;         } What this code does is iterate the workflows list for the ......

55 of 1201 | SharePoint Custom Actions - If you are developing a SharePoint feature and adding custom actions to various menus, the following is the table containing Default Custom Action Locations and IDs. DisplayFormToolbar N/A Location corresponds to the display form toolbar of lists. ExportEventToolbarButton (calendars) ExportContactToolbarButton (contacts) EditControlBlock N/A Corresponds to the per-item edit control block (ECB) menu.   EditFormToolbar N/A Location corresponds to the edit form toolbar of lists.   Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.ApplicationCreated Links Application Created page. CreateSite HomePage Microsoft.SharePoint......

56 of 1201 | CRM Accelerators – Part II – eService Accelerator - Last week we introduced the Analytics Accelerator which is part of the CRM Accelerators for Microsoft Dynamics CRM customers and partners to be released in the next few months, each week we will unveil more details of each accelerator. In this article we feature the eService Accelerator. eService Accelerator – Due to be released in Q3 2008 The eService accelerator provides businesses the ability to deliver self-service capabilities to their customers while tracking and managing these interactions in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. Customer Service is generally considered a cost center where cost-savings and productivity are the top priorities for most businesses. This stands in stark contr......

57 of 1201 | End User Training links for Sharepoint 2007 (MOSS) - So one of my colleagues happened to ask me if we have any public links for end user training on Sharepoint 2007 (MOSS) and I found following are some of things that can come handy: Checkout: http://blog.sharepointhosting.com/Downloads/SharePoint-Tutorials.aspx http://www.sharepoint-screencasts.com/   Following also should help: o   Introducing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007  o   Introduction to sites, workspaces, and pages  o   Introduction to My Site  o   Introduction to libraries o   Create a library  o   Add one or more files to a library o   Open or edit files in a libra......

58 of 1201 | A Brief History in ENTITIES (... or what the Heck is this EF THing?) - part I - So, it seemed like it would be useful to talk a bit about why we built the EF and the EDM, what we think it is and where we think it is going. A lot of docs exist on the EF and EDM. One can find many opinions on both all over the web. I wanted to take time to talk about them from my perspective as a person who has been on the team since its inception. This is merely my perspective and rationale, not intended to be spin. Hopefully it will clarify some things, hopefully it will promote more candid feedback and debate. Starting at the beginning  (kind of) -> the making of the EDM Back in the days when we were working on the Whidbey Release (VS 2005), I was in a team called MBF (Mic......

59 of 1201 | Advanced Workflow Service Talk (Demo 4 of 4) - 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 activity works by creating a queue that the WorkflowServiceHost (specifically the WorkflowOperationInvoker) will use to send the message received off the wire into the workflow.  Now, th......

60 of 1201 | Dallas - Fort Worth Connected Systems User Group -   My buddy, Todd Stone ( http://www.toddastone.com/ ), is running this group.  If you are in the DFW area you need to check it out.  The group discusses BizTalk Server, Windows Communication and Workflow Foundation.  Check them out...(read more) ...

61 of 1201 | Dallas - Fort Worth Connected Systems User Group -   My buddy, Todd Stone ( http://www.toddastone.com/ ), is running this group.  If you are in the DFW area you need to check it out.  The group discusses BizTalk Server, Windows Communication and Workflow Foundation.  Check them out...(read more) ...

62 of 1201 | The Emissary Design Pattern and RIAs (Rich Internet Applications) - Here is a first draft of a new presentation.   I gave it a couple of months ago just after TechEd and thought I would share it as I try to write up some of my thoughts on RIAs.  I plan to rework this a bit more and present it again at TechEd Europe.   The talk is titled: "The Emissary Design Pattern and RIAs (Rich Internet Applications)" Abstract: The Emissary design pattern was first described in 1999 in the old "Fiefdoms and Emissaries" talk.  The concept of a "fiefdom" is very similar to what we today call a service in a Service Oriented Architecture.  The fiefdom is a separate trust sphere and transactional boundary.   An emissary is a pr......

63 of 1201 | week3 - Another Fine Mess - Collaboration User Group Meeting - August 20 - week3 - Another Fine Mess Date: 20 August 2008, Wednesday Time: 09:00 AM End time: 11:00 AM Location: Maple Grove Community Center - Banquet Room More information and online registration: http://wcig.shuttlepod.org/Default.aspx?pageId=155624&eventId=20875&EventViewMode=2 Join Virgil Carroll from High Monkey and Rick Adams from PC Solutions for this month's topic:  Best practices for backup, document archiving, and SharePoint site management.  Agenda Why SharePoint environments get out of control: Site management planning (why it matters) Understanding the risk of creating new sites for every project / meeting / team Alternatives: using metadata, categorized views, and......

64 of 1201 | Introduction - How is software created? Well, let me explain things from a different perspective. What is a human body made of? Atoms, combined to make molecules of Elements and Compounds. These, in special combinations make the DNA and different structures present within the cell. Cell is a unit of life, performing all the major activities, such as metabolism and reproduction. Many different types of cells combine in different ways to make a tissue. Same or different tissues make up an organ, which is the independent functional unit, such as the heart or brain. Many organs communicate with each other to carry out vital functions of the body, hence making a System, such as the Circulatory System or ......

65 of 1201 | Creating SharePoint Workflows for WSS with Visual Studio 2008 - I just ran across one of those nuisance things with Visual Studio 2008 that I haven't seen before.  Create a SharePoint workflow (Sequential or State, doesn't matter) for a WSS site (not MOSS).  Build the project, you'll get an error similar to the following:  Error    3    Feature '739f61bf-5616-427a-80d6-ed30fdc04b1f' could not be installed because the loading of event receiver assembly "Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Feature, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" failed: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Feature, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyTok......

66 of 1201 | How To: Run A Workflow When a Specific Field Changes - Hi all, Kesha here once again with a tip using Workflow. Stephen Howard posted a very helpful video showing how to design a Workflow which runs when a specific field changes, you can find it on Microsoft Office Online . In short, the video demonstrates how to create a mirror field to store the old value of a column, then how to use the conditions to ensure the Workflow runs only when the Document Owner field changes. In addition, the video shows how the conditions prevent “infinite loop”. Pretty good stuff, check it out. Kesha...

67 of 1201 | Refresh SPWorkflowActivationProperties Item - If you're developing workflows for SharePoint 2007, you are probably familiar with the Item property of the SPWorkflowActivationProperties class. Usually your workflow gets an instance of SPWorkflowActivationProperties when the OnWorkflowActivated activity executes, which is bound to a public field on the workflow class so you can hang on to it for the lifetime of the workflow. Perhaps one of the more useful properties of this class is Item, which returns an instance of SPListItem, representing the list item on which the workflow runs. This is all fine, but maybe for more than two step workflows or for a better design/maintainability of the code, it makes sense (and I try to do it) to enc......

68 of 1201 | Advanced Workflow Services Talk (Demo 3 of 4) - 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" in memory.  What this means is that things like the asynchronous programming model  (APM), can't be used, since there isn't a guarantee that there will be something to call bac......

69 of 1201 | Looking at Blackpoint with Shaun and Sebastian from K2 - Kirk Evans talks with Shaun Leisegang and Sebastian Garrioch from K2 to learn more about K2 Blackpoint.  Blackpoint is a tool built upon Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows Presentation Foundation that targets SharePoint, allowing users to build workflows and process-driven applications quickly with no code.  In this interview, you will see how K2 Blackpoint makes it simple to create a workflow using an InfoPath form, route tasks to a user or group, send an email message, and send an SMS message, all with no code, and done in a very short period of time.  Given the price point of $5,000 US, you can easily see how this tool quickly pays for itself. To learn more about Bla......

70 of 1201 | PerformancePoint Server Security and Kerberos - Hi, it’s me again (Ross), the one who previously posted “Deploying PerformancePoint Planning Server in a Test Lab”, which now resides on TechNet here. I’m now posting to this blog to: List and provide links to our existing security-related content. Solicit feedback regarding security-related content. For example: What are we missing? How can we improve what we currently have? Anything else you would like to share with us? Here is a list of and links to our existing security documentation — organized according to our PPS book categories (Architecture and Planning, Deployment, and Operations): Architecture and Plann......

71 of 1201 | Using PowerTools for Open XML in a Workflow - Antonio Zamora has posted an interesting article on using PowerTools for Open XML in a workflow using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF).  We're seeing quite a few people who are using PowerTools for Open XML in a variety of scenarios.  If you are using WF, the article is worth a read....

72 of 1201 | Five Steps to Evaluate Technology Options - Recently a project leadership team I was assisting had the difficult task of selecting between implementation technologies for a distributed architecture.  We had brainstormed a list of candidates, and after some investigation were able to enumerate their strengths and weaknesses well enough.  But then the decision-making process started to come unhinged as we thrashed about, weighing the various options.  How do you narrow the field to a winner, anyway? When I was able to frame the process in terms of the five steps you are about to read, though, the path to a confident decision became clear.  While I am not suggesting that this is the evaluation methodology to end all evaluation methodol......

73 of 1201 | Kansas City Office Geeks Meeting on Windows Workflow Foundation - The Kansas City Office Geeks will be meeting on Thursday, August 7th at 5:30 pm at Centriq Foss to discuss WIndows Workflow Foundation here is some information: Featured Product/Topic: 2007 Microsoft Office System Recommended Audience: Developers Creating Custom Workflows with SharePoint   Presented: Jeff Julian Sponsor: AdvantageTech - Food Provider for the Meeting  Date: Thursday, August 7th (Each meeting will be on the 1st Thursday of the month)  Time: Food at 5:30pm; Presentation from 6:00pm - 7:00pm  Location:      Centriq Foss Training      8700 State Line Road, Suite 200      Leawood, KS 66206      Phone: 913-322-7000 ......

74 of 1201 | Kansas City Office Geeks Meeting on Windows Workflow Foundation - The Kansas City Office Geeks will be meeting on Thursday, August 7th at 5:30 pm at Centriq Foss to discuss WIndows Workflow Foundation here is some information: Featured Product/Topic: 2007 Microsoft Office System Recommended Audience: Developers Creating Custom Workflows with SharePoint   Presented: Jeff Julian Sponsor: AdvantageTech - Food Provider for the Meeting  Date: Thursday, August 7th (Each meeting will be on the 1st Thursday of the month)  Time: Food at 5:30pm; Presentation from 6:00pm - 7:00pm  Location:      Centriq Foss Training      8700 State Line Road, Suite 200      Leawood, KS 66206      Phone: 913-322-7000 ......

75 of 1201 | Stay tuned for Blueprints and EATK =>Soon on this channel - TechReady7 was a great experience and after a week of non-stop information in-flow the point of saturation is reached. Lot's of the stuff that was presented is still under NDA, so even though I would like to talk about it I can't ;-(. But stay tuned, there is awesome stuff coming out of "the soft" in the near future. Nevertheless there is some stuff that caught my interest: It is the Microsoft (R) Blueprints and the EATK. No surprise, both of these are closely related to the Software Factories stuff I do..... The Microsoft Blueprints seem to be a nice evolution from the GAT/GAX technology from the Patterns and Practices group. The advantage is that the Blueprints will build on th......

76 of 1201 | Nice Tutorial from Nick Swans Blog: Sharepoint 2007 Workflows for infopath Forms and Form Services - SharePoint 2007 Workflow with Visual Studio 2005 + InfoPath 2007 (RTM VERSION!) I have been amazed at how many hits and questions the 'how-to' article I posted on creating a SharePoint 2007 workflow with Visual Studio 2005 and InfoPath 2007 got. That article was based on Beta2 of SharePoint 2007, and although most of the steps are still the same, I decided to rewrite the article now that RTM is out. There were so many questions on the previous post that it was difficult for me to answer them all, so I've got to thank other people who tried out the workflow and got it to work for coming along and helping others. At the end of this article I've a link to forum post where I think we can put ......

77 of 1201 | Oslo talks at the PDC - After 3.5 years, my team's work in Microsoft's Connected Systems Division will finally see the light of day! Here are the related talks we're giving at this year's PDC: "Oslo:" Managing Software + Services ApplicationsPresenter: Oliver Sharp Hosting Workflows and Services in "Oslo"Presenter: Ford McKinstry "Oslo:" Customizing and Extending the Visual Design ExperiencePresenter: Florian Voss A Lap around "Oslo"Presenter(s): Chris Anderson, Don Box "Oslo:" The LanguagePresenter(s): Don Box, David Langworthy "Oslo:" Repository and SchemasPresenter(s): Martin Gudgin, Chris Sells Extending Windows Workflow Foundation v.Next with Custom ActivitiesPresenter: Matt Winkler Workflow Servic......

78 of 1201 | PDC2008 Sessions Posted - A bunch of sessions were posted up to the PDC2008 session list very early this morning. While I understand this isn't breaking news, it is quite exciting nonetheless. Posted CSD sessions that I find of particular interest include: Workflow Services: Orchestrating Services and Business Processes Extending Windows Workflow Foundation v.Next with Custom Activities Workflow Services Windows Workflow Foundation: Futures "Oslo:" Managing Software + Services Applications Hosting Workflows and Services in "Oslo" It's always exciting to see Don Box and Chris Sells up on stage - plus a few of our program managers (Matt Winkler; Kenny Wolf; Ed Pinto) will be......

79 of 1201 | Whew - Just finished the main writing stage for the REST book.  Wow books are hard (people ask me all the time why I dont' write a book on BizTalk and or WF and sometimes I forget why - books are hard). Next week I'm teaching the R2 course for Pluralsight in NY.  Should be fun.  Sam will be sitting in, so that should add some color to the course ;-). Also, Monday night I'm doing a talk at the NY Connected Systems User Group.  Come by if you are in the area.    Check out my BizTalk R2 Training. ...

80 of 1201 | Windows Workflow Foundation Patterns resources - I spoke at TechReady 7 in Seattle this week on Windows Workflow Foundation Patterns.  I got so many requests for the deck and samples that I am posting them on my SkyDrive (modified to remove the confidential material we discussed in the session, of course).   You can find the zipped content on my Windows Live SkyDrive....

81 of 1201 | Using Microsoft Dynamics Ax 2009 Workflow controls in EP - Here is the document from the Dynamics AX workflow team on how to enable workflow controls in EP. You can also take a look at PurchReqTableInfo or TrvExpTrans controls in out of the box EP which are workflow enabled. Thanks Josh Honeyman for sending this info to me. 1.1.        WorkflowActionBar control The WorkflowActionBar control surfaces a message bar and an actions menu button to the user. This provides context of the workflow action that needs to be taken along with surfacing the button to take the action.    Since this control requires the data to be loaded in order to render, it is sub-classed from the ASP.NET DataBoundControl.&nb......

82 of 1201 | First Look: Photoshop Lightroom 2 - Wondering if the latest version of Photoshop Lightroom is worth the $99 to upgrade or whether you should finally give Adobe’s digital workflow tool a try? Rick LePage highlights five of the top features in Lightroom 2....

83 of 1201 | Kansas City Office Geeks August Meeting - Kansas City Office Geeks will be meeting Thursday, August 7th on Windows Workflow Foundation.  Jeff Julian is going to present, so it should be good.  If you want the official information go here: http://www.clicktoattend.com/invitation.aspx?code=130094 If you need to sign up for the newsletter or have any other comments, questions, or concerns go to http://www.officegeeks.org/kcog or fill out the contact form on my blog and I will add you.  I'm open for suggestions.  So far we have the sponsors through next year and speakers through the first couple months of next year.  I am going to be e-mailing some people in charge of other SharePoint User Groups all over the U.S. and see if we can ge......

84 of 1201 | XPS: One format to rule them all (or maybe not) - One format or multiple formats? Some would have you believe that one format does everything everyone will ever need. Some feel that, by extension, two similar formats, or two formats that have some degree of overlap, must be 'competitive' (or designed to be so) because "one format is all you need". On the other side of the fence is a viewpoint that you should use a highly tuned and format that’s optimized for a specific application… sometimes so optimized that it's a pain for anyone else to use. I happen to fall into a more pragmatic group: try and use the best format for the job where ‘best’ is a combination of things like features, performance, interoperability, cost, ubiquity etc. So wh......

85 of 1201 | [Info] Visual Studio 2008 ????????????????????????????? - ?????? ????? ??????????????????? LINQ?WF ??????????????? ?Visual Studio 2008 ???????????? ?????????? ???????????????LINQ?WPF?WCF / WF ?? ???????????????? ? ? ????????????????????????? Visual Studio 2008 ??????????? (??? MSDN ??) http://www.microsoft.com/japan/msdn/events/online/study/vssolution/default.aspx Visual Studio 2008 ????????????? (???? .NET 3.0 ????????????????????? Visual Studio 2008 ??????????????) ? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?? ????????????????????????????(???????????????????????????????????????????...(read more)...

86 of 1201 | Apple updates Aperture - Apple pro photography workflow application has been updated with general enhancements....

87 of 1201 | Improved MathML support in Word 2007 - Two very interesting developments are happening that will improve Word 2007’s MathML support. The first is key for helping in getting Word 2007 math text into the scientific and technical publisher workflows and the second may help in this regard too. Specifically new transforms are now available in beta versions enabling Word to read and write MathML. These XSLT files are responsible for converting between Word’s native math format OMML and MathML 2.0. If you’d like to try out the new files (omml2mml.xsl and mml2omml.xsl), you can download them from the Microsoft Connect site using the invitation code: 0707-84P4-DPWT. Once you’ve downloaded the files, copy them to C:\Program Files\Mic......

88 of 1201 | SQL Server Build?? - ???SQL Server???????????????????build????? ????????: ??build ????300GB??? ?????build ????????????? 2.5 ?? ?????build ????job?10000??????? ???????20????build,??130?? ???????????????build??????build??24??????????? ?????,??build team????????????????build? ?????:???build?????????????????????????????build? ????????build?????????32????????SQL Server?DVD,?????????? 4GB,???????????:?????????build?????,????debug?Symbol,????2(retail?,debug ?),???3(CPU ??:x86?x64?ia64),?????????(????????????),??????????????1?TB ???J ??SQL 2008 ?setup ?????consolidated setup??,?????????,??????????CPU??????????????,???????????????build?????300GB? ????????build????????Build??????????????????????????,??SQL Se......

89 of 1201 | Microsoft Technologies in Financial Domain - SWIFT - SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) is one of widely accepted way to do financial transaction between financial institutions. It has over 8,300 banking organizations, securities institutions and corporate customers in more than 208 countries.   If you look at the SWIFT evolution in the market they cover overall market in financial institutions; from securities to cash to treasury, etc. And all of these communities have one common problem – Integration Problem.   They are many large financial institutions and many of those are aware of those problems. The middleware project/implementation that they have been running – most of the projects they have is to d......

90 of 1201 | Andrew Coates on VSTO Deployment - Andrew Coates has posted a great set of resources on VSTO v3 Deployment, including his PowerPoint deck.  I have recently started to see the value of VSTO and have been talking a lot more about it with my customers.  Hopefully I'll get off my lazy rear and start to blog about it, too.  I also have the pleasure of being able to speak at TechEd Australia (I will be presenting 3 sessions there on Windows Workflow Foundation).  Hopefully the schedules will align that I'll be able to watch Andrew's talk.  ...

91 of 1201 | Custom Persistence Points - Article Source: http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson A few weeks back I got a comment to one of my blog posts by a guy who said he wished he had more control over persistence points in an orchestration. In his example he basically wanted to reduce the number of persistence points as he needed to improve performance in what sounded like a request response scenario. Often in these kinds of scenarios if BizTalk has been well optimised and you still do not get the latency requirements you need then the likely hood is you are trying to solve a problem with BizTalk when a different solution would be most appropriate. Anyway what did make me wonder was the opposite of what this guy wa......

92 of 1201 | Using nested StateActivity to send regular reminders in Visual Studio SharePoint State Machine Workflow - Note. I want to thank Daniel Odievich for providing the content of this post, a must read! When developing SharePoint workflows, one often needs to send email notification for a task, and then keep sending regular reminders for this task at scheduled intervals. When developing workflows in SharePoint Designer, one can use DelayUntilActivity and DelayForActivity, but those were not designed for in Visual Studio workflows. When using State Machine workflows, the implementation for regular reminders is quite different than that in Sequential workflow. One can use put in EventDrivenActivity with DelayActivity but it will only execute once so you can only have one-time reminder, instead of re......

93 of 1201 | Email Verification for New Accounts via ASP.NET's Membership Framework - In my last blog entry, The CreateUserWizard and Validation ErrorMessages, reader Andrei Rinea commented: I wish the whole Membership set of controls would be replaced with better ones. Very often I need to have an authentication/authorization mechanism that doesn't need a username but an e-mail. I need email verification and in case the user loses the password he/she should be able to recover it without knowing (a) username. This scenario is possible, but requires some customizations of the Membership controls. For instance, you can configure Membership so that an Email is not required, and then customize the CreateUserWizard control so that it uses the text “E-mail:” in place of “Usern......

94 of 1201 | New and Notable 257 - Iron Ruby/DLR Part 3 and 4 of the excellent series, Learning Ruby via IronRuby and C# IronRuby at OSCON - John has some announcements Visual Studio/Development Tools In the latest version of Visual Studio Hacks Toolbox Screencast, James shows some of the cool features of SlickEdit Versioning Toolbox. I have a license to this tool and need to get back into it. Software Development/Software Architecture Clarifying the Use Case from Nick Malick Silverlight Silverlight Cream for July 24, 2008 -- #333 Windows Workflow New Microsoft SOA blogger, Keith Pikanowski has two great intro posts on WF, What is Windows Workflow?, and Using Visual Studio 2008 to Create Workfl......

95 of 1201 | Caligari trueSpace 7.6 for FREE?!? - If you're a 3D kinda guy, which I'm not (well, I'm getting there, but it's a slow journey) then you might be interested in this. Apparently, Caligari is giving away their trueSpace 7.6 product for free for a limited time. Here's the marketing fluff: What you may not expect is that we are making trueSpace7.6 available to everyone at no charge, in a giant step forward to bring high-end 3D authoring tools to all who want them! trueSpace7.6 is far more than a SketchUp-style 3D architectural modeling tool. Instead, it provides a complete 3D authoring environment for any type of 3D content creation, whether that's images, animations, ......

96 of 1201 | Removing Comments and Personal Information, and Accepting Revisions in an Open XML Document Stored in SharePoint - This post presents a custom application page in SharePoint that uses Open XML, the Open XML SDK and LINQ to XML to accept revisions, remove comments, and remove personal information from an Open XML word processing document. The following 45 second screen-cast demonstrates the code presented in this post.Video: Using Open XML with SharePoint   An approach that has interesting possibilities would be to create SharePoint workflows that query and modify Open XML documents.  For example, you could write some code that would ensure that no documents in a SharePoint document library have comments, revisions, or personal information.  I’ll present this code in the future. To ma......

97 of 1201 | CRM 4.0 User’s Guide now available in PDF and Word - As more than 4,000 of you out there have already discovered, we recently released a User’s Guide for Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0. The Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 User’s Guide includes all of the basic end-user information available in Help, including documentation on sales, marketing, and customer service features, as well as step-by-step instructions on working with Advanced Find and workflow. And it’s in an easily printable format. Microsoft Partners and MVPs have told us that they want to provide customized documents for their customers. To make it easy to customize the document, we’re making a version available in Microsoft Office Word 2007 (.docx) format. We......

98 of 1201 | Microsofties in Residence Silverlight Training - Day 1 - This week my teammate John Bristow and I are participating in the Microsofties in Residence Training (MiR). It's a five-day Silverlight training for Microsoft internal designers and developers. A designer is paired with a developer, so in our case I'm the designer and John is the developer. First a day and half is instructor led training, and the rest is hands-on project time. The goal is to finish a project at the end of  Day 5. It's a quite intense training considering we need to finish a project from concept to completion in just 5 days. John and I have an extra challenge because he injured his foot during our offsite last week and wasn't able to come to Redmond for training in ......

99 of 1201 | Some press on BizTalk Services R12 and Workflow - InfoWorld talks about BizTalk Services R12 and Workflow here....

100 of 1201 | Workflows Added to BizTalk Services CTP - BizTalk Services provides a way to connect multiple service-enabled applications in the cloud. The latest co