First steps to authoring Visual Studio Workflows for SharePoint

The following 4 posts from Sahil Malik I believe give you a few good sessions on authoring workflow with Visual Studio.1. Setting up your environment for writing VS2005 workflows.2. Writing an ultra basic workflow, deploying it, and slicing dicing how it worked.3. Making that workflow more complex, adding if/else, and a bunch of activities that sort of make it more interesting.4. Adding user

Adding Workflow Activities to the Visual Studio ToolBox

So you've thought you've setup all the environment to develop SharePoint Workflows using Visual Studio. However, when you create a SharePoint Sequential Workflow Library, the toolbox for SharePoint is empty whilst you know there should be something there.To add those activities to your workflow project. In the workflow designer page, right click on the Toolbox pane and Choose Add Tab and create

Using a Workflow to copy list items from one website to another

We currently have a requirement to implement staged environment. On a particular web application we want to be able to submit certain documents /forms semi-anonymously (thus exposing thus being able to expose this site to the Internet, although it won't be completely anonymous), with items from this webapp then being copied into an "internal" web application, which is used to allow internal users

InfoPath and Forms Server Resources

While researching a particular project we are working on concerning deployment of a number of InfoPath developed forms on Forms Server I came across a Technet WebCast which uses the XmlFormView control in ASP.NET to host InfoPath forms.This is something which is extremely cool, because you can have a simple aspx page which presents a minimal view just of your form (rendered via Forms Server),

Free SharePoint 2007 eBook

The following ebook is a very good resource for any new sharepoint developers, both as a good introduction and to explain new features in 2007 / WSS 3.0http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/2/f/02f0f661-88e1-43c2-b523-88d2e9e6802f/7%20Development%20Projects%20with%20the%202007%20Microsoft%20Office%20System%20and%20Windows%20SharePoint%20Services%202007.pdf

More branding links

CSS Branding - the way to do it...http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/10/08/sharepoint-branding-how-css-works-with-master-pages-part-1/http://www.cleverworkarounds.com/2007/10/11/sharepoint-branding-how-css-works-with-master-pages-part-2/

Breadcrumb links not working?

Personally I find the breadcrumb a very useful navigation tool, and it usually makes it quite clear to an end point user where the user is currently in terms of navigation (especially when you just want to go one level up).Seems like some of the default master pages which come with SharePoint have the bread crumb links off by default (e.g. BlueBand.master). There is a very simple solution for

Alerts and other emails taking too long to arrive?

On a SharePoint development environment or for demo purposes you don't want to wait 5 minutes (or whatever the default is) to receive alerts and other SharePoint emails. To make sure that these arrive every minute, you need to update the property of the immediate jobs alert timer.This is done by running the following command:stsadm -o setproperty -propertyname job-immediate-alerts -url http://

Customizing the My Site template / master page

Came across the following article from Steve Peschka about customizing my sites:http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/03/22/customizing-moss-2007-my-sites-within-the-enterprise.aspxNot sure if this will allow you to apply master pages from the portal e.g. BlueBand.master or other master pages to the My Site.If anyone knows how to do this, please do drop me a line.In the meantime, I have

Presence Information / Online Status won't show unless ...

...you have MSN Messenger installed on the machine where you are accessing SharePoint.Other settings which you might need to look at:1. You have setup Person Name Smart Tag and Presence Settings in Web Application General Settings in Central Administration2. Site being accessed is in Trusted Site list

Changing Service Accounts in MOSS / WSS

The following articles is quick overview of service accounts available, what they are used for, and how to change each of them to have a best practices configuration.http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard/archive/2007/07/06/how-to-change-service-accounts-and-their-passwords-in-moss-and-wss-3-0.aspx