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Sharepoint 2010 RTM next month
Serge Luca
pThe release date of Office 2010 and Sharepoint 2010 is official now :/p ul liRTM (Release to Manufacturing) this April 2010./li liOfficial launch date : May 12th/li/ul pa href="http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/2010-launch-events.aspx"ufont color="#800080"http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/businessproductivity/proof/pages/2010-launch-events.aspx/font/u/a. /p pAlmost time to update the vpcs…/p pEnjoy, dudes…/p [read].
Posted: Mon, Mar 8th '10 |
Video version of my “Sharepoint 2010 Client Object Model (part 2, Silverlight)” published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
p /p p /p pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1538" target="_blank"img style="border-right-width:0px;display:block;float:none;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;margin-left:auto;border-left-width:0px;margin-right:auto" title="ClientOM_2" border="0" alt="ClientOM_2" src="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mZBLvlUf36GwfMzfmFRQWhZVkO24VCcN7LvP9vWeS1qs4ck7bg0DKv-qhbH08TGL6Z7uMg4ytVVIm3LsPVvRsyx2EeSMfx4M8FKAIQ-dpKPo-0TRrrGoIzN39yD1k3kBkqmPBobms7_ [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 8th '10 |
Video version of my “Sharepoint 2010 Client Object Model tutorial (part 1)” published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
p /p p align="center"a href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1537" target="_blank"img style="border-right-width:0px;display:block;float:none;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;margin-left:auto;border-left-width:0px;margin-right:auto" title="ClientOM_1" border="0" alt="ClientOM_1" src="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1m1uyutKgJnZoGf-OuWHHTIp9GPF7qlndzwva-3yqthTWOjFbFdArbTrr-lXjbJ-0XYwdWkptOB0tNArkg0eMACk2-_osi1mp7I2YvadFTBqGxl0b1Y2nnMFITPnRYVTjKs [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 8th '10 |
Information Governance
Serge Luca
pI just want to relay this a href="http://www.slideshare.net/jpperrein/20091011-igovernancev8pub" target="_blank"excellent presentation/a about Information Governance from my Colleague Jean-Pascal Perrin (Devoteam Group)/p [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 1st '10 |
7 Sharepoint 2010 courses I’ve created for Devoteam
Serge Luca
p style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0pt"span style="font-family:'Calibri-Bold','sans-serif';color:black;font-size:10pt"I’ve been quite busy the last months and you will know why: indeed here are the courses I’ve created for the training center of Devoteam Luxemburg and Devoteam Belgium where I work as a Sharepoint practice manager, but also as a Sharepoint MCT trainer.I have been 100% focused on Sharepoint 2010 since September 2009./span/p p style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0p [read].
Posted: Fri, Jan 29th '10 |
Video version of My Sharepoint 2010 tutorial “What’s new in Web parts” published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
p align="center"a href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1522" target="_blank"Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial “What’s new in web parts”/a/p pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1522"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;border-top:0px;margin-right:auto;border-right:0px" title="wepartsh2010" border="0" alt="wepartsh2010" src="https://ngypog.blu.livefilestore.com/y1mLnRAnE [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 4th '10 |
Video version of My Introduction to Access Services in Sharepoint 2010 published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
p align="center"a href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1523" target="_blank"Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial “Access Services”/a/p pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1523" target="_blank"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;border-top:0px;margin-right:auto;border-right:0px" title="Access Services_1" border="0" alt="Access Services_1" src="https://ngypog.blu.livefilesto [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 4th '10 |
Video version of My Linq to Sharepoint 2010 step 6 published by Microsoft belux
Serge Luca
p align="center"a href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1521" target="_blank"Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial Part6 “SPMetal parameters file”/a/p
pa href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1521" target="_blank"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:block;float:none;margin-left:auto;border-top:0px;margin-right:auto;border-right:0px" title="linq2010_part6" border="0" alt="linq2010_part6" src="https://ngypog.blu.liv [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 4th '10 |
Video version of My “Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial -Part 5” published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
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p align="center"a href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1519" target="_blank"Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial Part 5 “Managing Concurrency”/a/p
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Posted: Tue, Dec 22nd '09 |
Video version of My “Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial -Part 4” published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
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p align="center"a href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1517" target="_blank"Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial Part 4 “Removing objects”/a/p
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Posted: Tue, Dec 22nd '09 |
Video version of My “Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial -Part 3” published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
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p align="center"a href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1515" target="_blank"Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial Part 3 : retrieving objects from Sharepoint lists/a/p
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Posted: Tue, Dec 22nd '09 |
Video version of My “Linq to Sharepoint tutorial-Part 2” published by Microsoft Belux.
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p align="center"a href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1513" target="_blank"Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial Part 2 : Adding objects to Sharepoint lists/a/p
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Posted: Tue, Dec 22nd '09 |
Video version of My “Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial -Part 1” published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
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p align="center"a href="http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/chopsticks/default.aspx?id=1511" target="_blank"Linq to Sharepoint 2010 tutorial Part 1 Introduction./a/p
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Posted: Tue, Dec 22nd '09 |
Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Sharepoint 2010
Serge Luca
pThis is a tutorial I’ve created for the Devoteam course a href="http://www.devoteam.be/index.php?option=com_mosformsamp;mosform=152amp;id=194amp;pays=beamp;Itemid=396amp;lang=2" target="_blank"“Update your Skills to Sharepoint 2010”./a (Next session: January 2010, Belgium)./p
pa href="http://cid-e8a06d5f2f585013.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/sharepoint2010posts/Vstudio2010Sharepoint/VStudioSharepointBlog.pdf" target="_blank"img style="border-bottom:0px;border-left:0px;display:block;f [read].
Posted: Fri, Dec 11th '09 |
Sharepoint 2010-Beta 2: Linq to Sharepoint tutorial
Serge Luca
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p[Update 8/12/2009: Link to the pdf amp; resource files fixed]/p
p[Update 14/12/2009: bug fixed]/p
pThis is a tutorial I’ve created for the Devoteam course a href="http://www.devoteam.be/index.php?option=com_mosformsamp;mosform=152amp;id=194amp;pays=beamp;Itemid=396amp;lang=2" target="_blank"“Update your Skills to Sharepoint 2010”./a (Next session:January 2010, Belgium)./p
p a href="http://cid-e8a06d5f2f585013.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/sharepoint2010posts/linqtosharepoint [read].
Posted: Sun, Dec 6th '09 |
Sharepoint 2010 and Devoteam Sharepoint 2010 course
Serge Luca
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Posted: Fri, Nov 20th '09 |
From Connected System (Workflow) MVP to Sharepoint MVP
Serge Luca
I’ve been Connected System MVP during several years; I’m very glad to be awarded Sharepoint MVP by Microsoft ! [read].
Posted: Thu, Oct 1st '09 |
Skip the last Sharepoint August Cumulative update or…
Serge Luca
…or don't detach your content db. In server farms that have a large number of sites, installing a software update with the content databases attached can result in too much downtime. To minimize downtime, Microsoft recommends that you perform the additional step of detaching the content databases. But this time, don't do that for the last August cumulative update. More details here http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/ The problem is being investigated [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 23rd '09 |
Using a database or a Sharepoint List ?
Serge Luca
The Sharepoint Pattern & Practice group recently released the August version of Sharepoint Guidance and it’s worth reading! A common question in the sharepoint newsgroups is “shoud I use a Sharepoint list or the database ?”. [read].
Posted: Tue, Sep 22nd '09 |
My 2000th post in the Sharepoint newsgroups…
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Posted: Tue, Sep 22nd '09 |
New (last ?) Release of the Visual Studio 2008 extensions for SharePoint 1.3
Serge Luca
Michael Washam (MSFT) announced today in the sharepoint newsgroups the last release of the Visual Studio Extensions for Sharepoint 1.3 CTP. I’ve used this tool since its first release in 2007, but the upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 provides major improvements and is (now) really usable. This is probably the last release of the venerable VseWss before Sharepoint 2010 and the Sharepoint developement tools that will be part of Visual Studio 2010. New features of VseWSS 1.3: The extensions now ins [read].
Posted: Mon, Sep 21st '09 |
Sharepoint 2007 : how to prevent users from creating Sharepoint Designer Workflows
Serge Luca
That is a frequent question I have to answer…This seems to be a common issue. In Central Administration, Application management, you will find the following option: When you selected it, you will get this : In the setting “Enable user-defined workflows for this site”, select “No” (you will notice other interesting options for internal or external users who don’t have site access, but who need to take part of workflows). Now, if you open one of the site of the web applica [read].
Posted: Thu, Sep 17th '09 |
Club MOSS Paris-next meeting: September 14th
Serge Luca
Don’t forget ; more details here. [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 9th '09 |
Sharepoint Conference 2009 (Las Vegas, 19-22 October 2009): new sessions
Serge Luca
Don’t forget it, that’s the place to be if you really want to learn something about Sharepoint 2010. Hope to see you there… SharePoint 2010 Overview and What's New Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 SharePoint 2010 Capacity and Performance Planning SharePoint 2010 Security and Identity Management: What's New. Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Development SharePoint 2010 Ribbon, ECMAScript and Dialog Framework Development Developing with REST and LINQ in SharePoint 2010 Upgrading SharePoin [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 9th '09 |
My Generic Framework for Sharepoint Workflows (aspx forms): v1.0 today
Serge Luca
I guess this will help many people in the Sharepoint community (according to some messages in the Sharepoint newsgroups…) After working on it this week-end, I’ve decided that the quality was good. Now it’s time to move it to Sharepoint 2010; more details after the Sharepoint Conference in Las Vegas. Enjoy ! [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 6th '09 |
Calling Sharepoint Dlls from C++ code
Serge Luca
I spent most of the nineties in the C++ world with the venerable MFC (Microsoft Foundation Classes) , ATL(Active Template Library) & its famous smart pointers. I recently had to answer a question in the Sharepoint newsgroups related to using Sharepoint dlls in C++: I jumped on it as a kid in a candy store (to be honest my current candy store is Sharepoint 2010). This is what I did: Create a new CLR Console Application project : The following code is generated : Add a referen [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 31st '09 |
My Generic workflow framework for Sharepoint updated in Codeplex (Beta)
Serge Luca
I just added a small fix (workflows in content types bug). Enjoy! [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 26th '09 |
Sharepoint workflows : when are your tasks created ?
Serge Luca
Several Sharepointers notice that using the CreateTask activity alone in a Sharepoint workflow doesn’t really create a Sharepoint Task: To have the task created (in the task list) you need to have an activity that will move the workflow in waiting state ; any activity implementing the IEventActivity interface will do the job; that is the case of all sharepoint activities having name starting with “On” (OnTaskCreated, OnTaskChanged,OnTaskDeleted,…), and also the Delay activity. The Sharep [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 24th '09 |
Step by Step Tutorial.Creating workflows with Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS 2007(Part 17/20). Solving the infamous “Failed On Start (Retrying)”
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When we start a (Custom) Sharepoint Workflow (but even sometimes Out of the Box workflows) the infamous Failed on start (retrying) error may hit you.The most common reasons of this error are:
1. in most cases the main reason is that the workflow assembly strong name in workflow.xml doesn't match the assembly strong name of the dll registered in the GAC ("Unexpected L [read].
Posted: Thu, Aug 20th '09 |
Step by Step Tutorial.Creating workflows with Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS 2007(Part 16/20). Assign a workflow task to a group of users
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step15 step16 Introduction A very good practice in software is to work with roles instead of working with individuals. I’ve often noticed in the Sharepoint newsgroups that assigning a workflow task to a group seems to be a popular question. First off you cannot assign a Task to Active Directory groups, but only to Sharepoint groups ! Hands-on Let start by using the HelloWorldS [read].
Posted: Wed, Aug 19th '09 |
Sharepoint Conference 2009/Sharepoint 2010
Serge Luca
I just registered for the Sharepoint Conference (Las Vegas) that will be the conference to learn about SharePoint 2010. Join the newly created Facebook Events page for the SPC09 [read].
Posted: Tue, Aug 18th '09 |
Sharepoint 2010 preview
Serge Luca
Wow ! No more secret: if you want to know what Sharepoint 2010 looks like, check the following web site. [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 13th '09 |
my 5th webcast published
Serge Luca
My Fifth webcast on Sharepoint for Microsoft Belux has recently been published; in this video, I show how show you how to quickly create Sharepoint workflows with aspx association and
initiation forms.This demo is based on my Generic Framework uploaded to codeplex. [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 17th '09 |
Ineta speaker at the Macedonian Code Camp
Serge Luca
I will be Ineta speaker at the Macedonian Code Camp in 2 weeks organized by the Macedonian.Net User Group. This is my third stay in Macedonia, and I really love it. More details here. I will present 2 intensive sessions on Sharepoint. [read].
Posted: Thu, May 28th '09 |
My generic Framework for aspx sharepoint workflow forms has been uploaded to Codeplex
Serge Luca
I’m currently working on a screencast for Microsoft Belux to better illustrate it. Stay tuned ! I shortly described it in a previous post. [read].
Posted: Sun, May 24th '09 |
How to allow Full Control permission to a user in a Sharepoint List
Serge Luca
The SPWeb has a RoleDefinitions property that return a list of SPRoleDefinition. Each SPRoleDefinition is a permission level ; for instance in the next code snippe,t web.Roledefinitions will return a collection of 6 roles; they match the permission Levels of the web site : If you want to assign a permission level to a user on a specific list, you need to create a new RoleAssignement (SPRoleAssignment class) that can be added to the SPList. The new permission must be linked to the role assign [read].
Posted: Sun, May 24th '09 |
Small update to my Download Sharepoint solution package utility uploaded to Codeplex
Serge Luca
just a simple bug fix.This utility allows Sharepoint administrators and developers to download a solution package from the Sharepoint solution store (for instance to compare it with another one); I’ve recently faced this situation: we had a solution package in our staging farm, but we wanted to compare the files (features) with our development code. I’ve created 2 versions of this utility : a Windows Form version and a stsadm extension . Run the Windows Form version on the Sharepoint [read].
Posted: Sun, May 24th '09 |
New version of my Workflow Explorer (or ‘Scanner’ ) uploaded to Codeplex)
Serge Luca
It is still a beta product (v0.8)… Before writing code for rendering its output to a web part or a Sharepoint List, I’m still improving its kernel. (In the meantime the output can be redirected to an ascii file). Fixed a bug (display list item ‘filename’ in document libraries and not ‘Title’), and I’ve added a new option ‘raw’ which displays the ‘raw state’ or the workflow (interesting for developers). Next version will be an stsadm extension. Using the ‘error’ opt [read].
Posted: Sun, May 24th '09 |
My WebCast "QuickStart with Ajax in Sharepoint" has been published (MS Belux)
Serge Luca
Another WebCast I did for Microsoft Belux has recently been published; in this video, I show how to start with Ajax in Windows Sharepoint Services v3. [read].
Posted: Sun, May 24th '09 |
Scanning running and faulting Sharepoint workflows
Serge Luca
Several customers asked me to create a tool that displays the status of running workflows (running on faulting). One of my customer has several hundreds of workflows running at the same time. That why I’ve created this utility (still in console mode) and I’ve uploaded to Codeplex : WorkflowExplorer. Showing all running workflows : Showing faulting workflows in a site collection : [read].
Posted: Sat, May 23rd '09 |
my 1001th answer in the Microsoft Sharepoint newsgroup !
Serge Luca
I had the pleasure to post my 1001th answer to the Microsoft Sharepoint newsgroups this morning ! [read].
Posted: Thu, May 21st '09 |
My video of aspx association forms for Shaeepoint has been published (MSDN Belux)
Serge Luca
Another chopstick I did for Microsoft Belux has recently been published; in this video, I give a quick overview of aspx association forms for Windows Sharepoint Services v3. [read].
Posted: Mon, May 18th '09 |
My AspxCollectFeedback workflow for Sharepoint uploaded to Codeplex.
Serge Luca
I've recently fixed a very important example of the Sharepoint sdk (the AspxCollectFeedback workflow sample) and I've uploaded it to Codeplex.
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Posted: Sun, May 17th '09 |
My "Download Solution Package" utility published to codeplex
Serge Luca
The other day, my team had a solution package deployed to a Sharepoint farm, and we wanted to compare this solution with another version; but we couldn't download the deployed version from the solution store. That's why I've created a small utility that can be used as a stsadm.exe extension or as a windows form. Basic, but useful... [read].
Posted: Sat, May 16th '09 |
My video of the Visual Studio Extensions (1.3) for WSS has been published by Microsoft Belux
Serge Luca
Another chopstick I did for Microsoft Belux has recently been published; in this video, I give a quick overview of the Visual Studio Extensions 1.3 (March CTP) for Windows Sharepoint Services. [read].
Posted: Sat, May 16th '09 |
How to fix the AspxCollectfeedback (sharepoint sdk) workflow sample video published
Serge Luca
One of the chopsticks I did for Microsoft Belux has recently been published; in this video, I illustrate how to fix the AspxCollectFeedback workflow sample provided with the Sharepoint (wss v3) sdk. You can watch it here. [read].
Posted: Fri, May 15th '09 |
Reusable content in MOSS
Serge Luca
It is strange, but I’ve met many Sharepoint guys who had no idea of what Reusable Content was. Hands on ! Let’s go to our collaboration portal and move the home page to edit mode : Edit the content of one of the field and the Rich Html editor will show up : Move the cursor to the following button in the toolbar : We can insert content defined in a central location which is actually the following list (select view All Site content ) : The Reusable content list allows 2 content types : [read].
Posted: Sun, Apr 5th '09 |
Sharepoint : Finding a stsadm option
Serge Luca
I just discovered this; you want to find a stsadm option containing a keyword, like “feature” for instance. Type this: and you get this [read].
Posted: Sat, Apr 4th '09 |
Sharepoint : how to change the column width of a list
Serge Luca
I had to do it this evening : here is how to proceed : Let’s start with an existing list in Sharepoint, a task list for instance : Start Sharepoint Designer and open up the corresponding view (AllItems.asxp, here) Make sure the view shows up in design mode : Right Click anywhere in the view and select the menu option “Convert to XSLT Data View”: The DataFormWebPart will display the view; You can now visually modify the list width : Save the page; refresh your page in the br [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 2nd '09 |
MOSS as an application platform : an introduction to Oba patterns
Serge Luca
As a MOSS consultant, I face many situations where Sharepoint is not an island and needs to communicate or to integrate data coming from different sources, different applications (Line of Business Applications) like SAP and others. Also as a .Net consultant I use to keep my mind structured by thinking in term of patterns, and there are many of them. I recently talk to a confirmed MOSS consultant about OBA (Office Business Applications), and it quickly appeared that for him OBA was just using [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 24th '09 |
Is this a new OBA (Sharepoint) pattern ? I’ve called it the “Asynchronous Business Task pattern “
Serge Luca
A new Oba pattern ? Asynchronous Business Task Pattern The only (efficient) way to have an asynchronous communication between a Sharepoint workflow (see the “Cooperating Document Workflow “OBA pattern) and a LOB (Line of Business Application) is to use what I call the "Asynchronous Business Task Pattern". It is a pattern that I frequently use for my customers, because there is no other alternative in Sharepoint: 1. a workflow create a business task (task is identified by an Task Id) 2. a wor [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 24th '09 |
Using the Content Query Web Part /Enhanced Query Web Part (MOSS 2007)
Serge Luca
Introduction One of the most important web part provided with MOSS 2007 is the Content Query Web Part which allows to “rollup” list items.This web part is very flexible and extremely fast You will find a lot of descriptions of this Web Part in web sites and blogs like the Sharepoint team blog, ,Heather Solomon and Paul Galvin. I recently evaluated the Enhanced Query Web part code from Codeplex that displays data in html tables, so I will quickly describe what I’ve learnt plus new stu [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 22nd '09 |
MOSS 2007 : search on content type
Serge Luca
Several people have asked me recently how to focus a search on a content type. In this post, I will describe the different steps to follow in order to achieve this. 1.Go to your Shared Services Provider Administration page: 2.Click on “Search settings” : 3.Select “Metadata property mappings” : 4.In the Metadata property mappings windows, select the Content type property : [read].
Posted: Sun, Mar 15th '09 |
Sharepoint : problem when we update a file during a checking in
Serge Luca
Recently, somebody asked me to add version history to word documents stored in Sharepoint. The word documents were docx files, based on the OpenXML format. This was a great opportunity to try the new OpenXML sdk 2.0 CTP (I’ve used a lot the Package & PackagePart classes in the past). I decided to create an event handler overriding ItemCheckingIn method of the SPItemEventReceiver class and to a table in my OpenXml document (fig 1). Fig 1.Overriding ItemCheckingIn and modifying the d [read].
Posted: Tue, Mar 10th '09 |
New MOSS Virtual Labs
Serge Luca
Learning Sharepoint today is very easy with the Virtual Labs; you don't have to setup you Sharepoint environment, Microsoft will do that for you and for free. This is very good quality learning material; I've noticed today that Microsoft provides new MOSS labs, not just WSS. [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 27th '09 |
New job: moving to sharepoint@devoteam
Serge Luca
After spending 2 years at U2U as a Sharepoint and Workflow trainer with Patrick Tisseghem (we all miss you, Patrick!), I've decided to join the ECM business unit of the Devoteam group where I'm the Sharepoint practice Manager of a young and enthusiastic team of Sharepoint developers, but still I remain a Sharepoint trainer. This ECM unit of Devoteam (based in Leuven, Belgium) is specialized in 2 products :
LiveLink from OpenText (a leader in the Gardner magic ECM Quadrant)
Sharepoi [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 25th '09 |
Custom extended properties not propagated in Sharepoint workflows !!!
Serge Luca
I found a new BUG in Sharepoint workflows this evening: according to the sdk :
"When you write to the ExtendedProperties hash table, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 examines each key-value pair and performs the following function:
If a value has a key-name that matches the name of a field on the task content type, that value is written to the matching field. If a value's key-name does not match any of the field for that task, the value is written to the SPListItem.Properties objec [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 24th '09 |
Visual Studio Extension for Sharepoint 1.3 CTP
Serge Luca
I've recently used the new Visual Studio Extensions for Sharepoint 1.3 CTP released a few weeks ago; I like it because it is more flexible than the previous version (and you can use it on 64 bits); you can copy your files to the 12 Folder without deploying a new solution, and many other nice feature. For more details see this post from the Sharepoint team. I've discovered an annoying bug : you can only rename a WebPart (folder) one time; the associated files are only renamed the first time you [read].
Posted: Tue, Feb 3rd '09 |
Workflow for Sharepoint aspx form framework almost completed
Serge Luca
I'm receiving tons of emails related to my generic framework for Sharepoint.
So, yes I'm currently updating it with Edit and Modification forms support. And much more...
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Posted: Tue, Jan 27th '09 |
Workflow Foundation 4 (Visual Studio 2010) post updated
Serge Luca
New details here
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Posted: Sun, Nov 30th '08 |
Step by Step Tutorial.Creating workflows with Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS 2007 (part 15/20).Easy ASPX Initiation Forms-(my small generic framework)
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Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 15/20). Easy ASPX Initiation Forms-(by using my small generic framework)
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After the previous post, I’ve upgraded my generic [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 27th '08 |
Step by Step Tutorial.Creating workflows with Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS 2007 (part 14/20).Easy ASPX Association Forms-(my small generic framework)
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Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 14/20). Easy ASPX Association Forms-(by using my small generic framework) By Serge Luca MVP step1 step2 step3 step4 step5 step6 step7 step8 step9 step10 step11 step12 step13 step14 Download the startup code Download the final code Download the framework code Introduction There are many reasons to associate workflows with aspx forms in Sharepoint instead of Infopath forms (IP): aspx forms are [read].
Posted: Thu, Nov 20th '08 |
Surprise of the day : how Sharepoint-FAST retrieved me in the PDC…
Serge Luca
This evening I was watching the Sharepoint-Fast demos of Jan Helge Sageflåt, when the first document retrieved by the FAST Silverlight web part was a powerpoint about the 2007 Microsoft Office System; I did it for Microsoft Belux 2 years ago : see the picture below. Surprise, surprise… [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 4th '08 |
PDC2008: summary of what Workflow Foundation developers need to know
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By Serge Luca
MVP
1.New version of WF: WF4 (more details later, I'm just working on it)
What’s new in WF4 ?
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Authoring is simpler and takes much less code
Fully declarative workflows and activities
Alignment across Expressions, Rules, and Activities
Seamless Composition Across Flow Styles
Runtime
10-100X Performance Improvements
Full control over persistence
Flow-in Transactions
Partial Trust Support
Integrates with WCF, WPF, ASP.NET
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Posted: Sun, Nov 2nd '08 |
Workflow Service (Azure)
Serge Luca
Very exciting PDC2008 : back to the (worldwide) logical mainframe with Azure...
Needless to say that I'm already playing/working with the Workflow Service preview. Xoml is becoming very important in this kind of scenarios.
More details in the next weeks, I'll post the differents samples I've just done tonight.
Also the demo of the web version of Office 14 client (actually we all expected this).
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Posted: Wed, Oct 29th '08 |
Step by Step Tutorial. Creating workflows with Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS 2007 (part 13/20). Fixing and running the ASPXCollectFeedback sample (sdk)
Serge Luca
Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 13/20). Fixing and running the ASPXCollectFeedback sample (sdk)
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I’ve received tons of emails related to workflows & aspx forms. Indeed, I’ve faced many situations where Infopath forms in Sharepoint workflows are not flexible enough or not stable enough; therefore we [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 27th '08 |
Speaker for Microsoft Macedonia (Vizija event)
Serge Luca
I've been fortunate enough to be invited last week as a speaker for Microsoft Macedonia at the Vizija event (equivalent of the Dev Days) in Skopje.
I had 2 sessions on my favorite topics : Workflow Foundation and Sharepoint/Oba; the sessions were pretty crowded (more than 400 people in each room) ; people were positive, warm and eager to learn. I had a great time, it was my second stay in Skopje.
See you next year for more Workflow Foundation 4.0 topics !!! (...and maybe Office 14, who k [read].
Posted: Sun, Oct 5th '08 |
Homage to Patrick Tisseghem
Serge Luca
A great and lovely man passed away. Patrick Tisseghem was also a mentor for many people. I'm joining my U2U colleagues to present my deepest condoleances to the family.
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Posted: Fri, Sep 5th '08 |
New version of Workflow Foundation
Serge Luca
The next version of Workflow Foundation is going to be very interesting : database activities, Powershell activities, Workflows running in the cloud (Cloud Services), new designer framework, better integration with WPF, Flowchart,... For more information, attend the PDC2008 :-) Count on me to post more details as soon as I'm authorized... [read].
Posted: Sun, Aug 3rd '08 |
Around the world : 2 weeks in Asia with the Oba team (Redmond)
Serge Luca
Last month, I spent 2 weeks in Asia working with/for the Office Business Application team (Redmond) in Asia; 1 week in the Philippines (Manila) and 1 week in Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh, aka Saigon). It was a kind of Oba/Sharepoint evangelization and also Train the trainer training ; the feedback was excellent; we did the same session before in Paris and Beijing last year. The oba team attended my courses and it was so fun. Oba seems to be very popular in Asia. 30% of the training was focused on Client [read].
Posted: Sun, Jun 8th '08 |
D-Day. Thank you USA
Serge Luca
Friday was D Day !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Day
Never forget; I'm very grateful for this; once again thank you !
May I suggest this series.
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Posted: Sun, Jun 8th '08 |
Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 12/20). Managing several approvers/reviewers
Serge Luca
Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 12/20). Managing several approvers/reviewers
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MVP Connected System
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The Out-of the box approval workflow provided with MOSS allows to specify several approvers. In this post, I will illustrate how to do this. In a first time (part 1) , I will show you how to use the Replica [read].
Posted: Thu, May 8th '08 |
Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 11/20). Modification Forms
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Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 11/20). Modification Forms
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MVP Connected System
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Modification forms allow us to reassign a workflow task to another user.
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Posted: Wed, May 7th '08 |
Do you think you know when to call Dispose() in Sharepoint ?
Serge Luca
One of the most frequent cause of problems in Sharepoint developement is when developers don't call Dispose() (specially when they traverse collections of objects).
My reference for this was this excellent whitepaper from Scott Harris and Mike Ammerlaan ; to summarize, call Dispose() all the time except when the object comes from the context (ex SPContext.Web), because Sharepoint will take care of it.
However the following article from Roger Lamb shows that it is a bit more complex.
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Posted: Tue, Apr 22nd '08 |
Open XML is now an ISO Standard
Serge Luca
in my opinion this is very important and opens the door to many interesting patterns. Oh boy, some of my friends in Redmond must be so happy. [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 2nd '08 |
MVP 2008-2009 renewed
Serge Luca
Happy to know that my MVP status has been renewed today... [read].
Posted: Wed, Apr 2nd '08 |
Enable WCF in Windows Server 2008
Serge Luca
Solved some WCF + Windows Server 2008 problems today and the following links helped me : Don't forget that WCF is a feature-> read this to activate it in ws2008. Using WCF with WAS in Windows Server 2008 (a bit easier than with Vista) [read].
Posted: Fri, Mar 28th '08 |
Upgrading my silverlight "skills" to v2 beta1
Serge Luca
I just spent a couple of days with Silverlight v2: 1.Silverlight 2 beta 1 (Scott Guthrie tutorial) 2.Blend 2.5 beta (Scott Guthrie tutorial) 3.Sharepoint + Silverlight (+ on Windows Server 2008 which is my "normal platform") For Silverlight 2 & Sharepoint, if you don't want to waste one day or more, just follow Patrick's instructions to modify the web.config file (+Mime) and don't forget to recompile your "SL.XAML.HelloSilverlight2 project". Let's repeat it : "recompile you xap proj [read].
Posted: Wed, Mar 26th '08 |
Declarative workflows and WSS sp1 bug
Serge Luca
Declarative workflows (like those generated by Sharepoint Designer) don't start automatically anymore when you install Windows Sharepoint Service sp1:
this is a nasty bug, but there is a workaround .
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Posted: Thu, Mar 20th '08 |
Speaker for the TechDays 2008 : Workflow Foundation Rules Engine
Serge Luca
The next Microsoft Tech Days (Belgium) will take place in less than 2 weeks in Gent; this will be the official launch of brand new versions of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008. Like my U2U colleagues Patrick Tisseghem and Peter Himschoot, I'll be a speaker : my session will be "Externalizing the Business Rules in any .Net application (including Sharepoint) with the Workflow Foundation Rules Engine" (13 March 2008). See ya there ! [read].
Posted: Fri, Feb 29th '08 |
Hosting a WCF Serviced Workflow in IIS 7 and using the persistence service (Visual Studio 2008)
Serge Luca
By Serge Luca
MVP Windows Workflow Foundation
In the previous post I showed you how to host a "WCF serviced" workflow and how to use a persistence service in a console application.
Now, let's move our workflow service to IIS7. Code can be downloaded here.
1.Download the code of the previous post.
2.In IIS7 Admin Manager, create a virtual directory that will point to the WFServiceLibrary folder, assign a port number (for instance 8082). Make sure the service dll is in the .bin folder [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 23rd '08 |
Using the persistence service in a WCF 3.5 hosted workflow
Serge Luca
Using the persistence service in a WCF 3.5 hosted workflow
By Serge Luca
MVP Windows Workflow Foundation
This morning a colleague at U2U asked me how to use the persistence service in a workflow hosted in WCF (.Net 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008).
I've created a quick (and dirty, sorry) step by step tutorial on how to achieve it.
Click here to download the code.
1.Start Visual Studio 2008 and create a new Sequential Workflow Service Library project ; call it WFServiceLibrary.
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Posted: Tue, Jan 15th '08 |
Step by Step Tutorial. Creating Workflows for Windows Sharepoint Services and MOSS2007 (part 10/20)
Serge Luca
Step 10/20. Reuse, Modify and Debug a Sharepoint Designer workflow in Visual Studio
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MVP Windows Workflow Foundation
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Microsoft Sharepoint Designer 2007 is a very interesting tool that allows developers and users to create workflows running in Sharepoint 2007 without writing code. The workflows generated by Sharepoint Designer cannot be debugge [read].
Posted: Tue, Nov 20th '07 |
Blog Images
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Posted: Tue, Nov 20th '07 |
I've been Simpsonized
Serge Luca
My simpsonized face:
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Posted: Sat, Oct 20th '07 |
Train The Trainer OBA(Office Business Applications)-Beijing
Serge Luca
After Paris, I've been the trainer of another OBA (Office Business Applications) Train The Trainer workshop last week in Bejing for Microsoft.
This was my first trip in China; almost 70 persons (many Microsoft employees) attended this 3 days course.
It was a great experience. After Joanna Bichsel and John Graham, I was fortunate to spend the week with Khawar Ahmed and Andrew Toner (both are OBA Product Managers).
Workflow discussion...
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Posted: Sat, Oct 20th '07 |
Photo Album: Around the globe (May-October 2007)
Serge Luca
Around the globe (May-October 2007)US Army Germany(May 2007)Germany(May 2007)Redmond (May 2007)Microsoft-Redmond -Design of the Workflow Foundation exam (May 2007)Vancouver (canada) May 2007Vancouver(Canada)-May 2007Doha(Qatar)-June 2007iceland-June 2007Train The Trainer OBA Paris (October 2007)Train The Trainer Oba BeijingMore Photos... [read].
Posted: Sat, Oct 20th '07 |
Workflow Foundation source code...
Serge Luca
According to Scott Guthrie, the source code of the .Net framework libraries 3.5 will be released under Microsoft Reference License.
This is going to be great for all of us who use Reflector on a daily basis but who don't want to post on the MS code for legal reasons.
So we'll be able to dig into the .net framework code from within our (VS2008) debugger; by the way , we already did it ten years ago with the C++ Microsoft Foundation Class Library. Great posts in perspective...Thanks MS! mmh wha [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 3rd '07 |
Sharepoint Page Processing Model
Serge Luca
When I teach a Sharepoint course for U2U, I like to spend some time on the Page Processing Model (+ the role of IIS, ASP.Net and Sharepoint specific components like the Sharepoint modules, page layout, etc...)
The following URL (from the Sharepoint 2007 sdk 1.2) provides an excellent explanation. I didn't noticed it before...
More informations can be provided by opening up the Web Application's global.asax (where you'll find a reference to the SPHttpApplication) and the web.confi [read].
Posted: Wed, Oct 3rd '07 |
The Workflow Foundation for Sharepoint series will continue...
Serge Luca
I've received tons of e-mail about the next "episodes" of my "Workflow for Sharepoint " series.
I've been very busy on other works with U2U and Microsoft these last days (just have to teach a Oba Train the Trainer for U2U & Microsoft in China next week if I can get a visa ), I'm also working with Microsoft learning on creating some of the next Workflow Foundation beta certifications exams questions, and I'll be back on track for the serie.
There are some very interesting of oba patt [read].
Posted: Tue, Oct 2nd '07 |
Workflow Foundation is "very" single threaded, but...
Serge Luca
Workflow Foundation is single threaded (one thread at a time will run your workflow instance, but the workflowRuntime is multithreaded : several workflows can run simultaneously), even when we use the ParallelActivity which coordonates execution of activities in multiple branches in a round-robin fashion; this doesn't mean the same thread will always run the workflow instance: indeed, if we use the DelayActivity (or if the workflow wait for another kind of message), the running thread [read].
Posted: Wed, Sep 26th '07 |
Teaching the Oba Train the Trainer in Paris with the Redmond Team
Serge Luca
the last 2 weeks have been very busy : I've prepared the OBA Train the Trainer session that I had to teach last week in Paris for Microsoft.
This course has been created by Patrick Tisseghem for Microsoft.
OBA means Office Business Application (see: www.obacentral.com and Office Business Application Portal) and that is really what I like : building real applications from existing building blocks like Office client, .Net, Sharepoint, Open XML and several nice patterns.
Very exiting was [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 23rd '07 |
Blog list: More Bloggers
Serge Luca
More BloggersDino EspositoMicrosoft MSDN bloggersSharepoint bloggersAlistair Cockburnuse cases, agile, crystalMartin FowlerProcess, agile, patterns,...Team SystemJames Con (MS)WWFKen Schwaber Scrum web siteScrumRay Ozzie (MS)collaboration, Groove,...Dennis Pilarinos (MS)WWF PMDon Box (MS)WCF,ComMS sharepoint team(MS)Scott Guthrie(MS)Asp.netChris Sells(MS)Belgian & Lux MSDN .Net bloggers.NetDavid Boschman(MS)MSDN BeluxTom Mertens [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 16th '07 |
Blog list: Workflow F bloggers
Serge Luca
Workflow F bloggersMoustafa KhalilMS WF teamDharma ShuklaMS WF teamTom LakeMS WF teamDon McCradyMS WF teamNate TalbertMS WF teamSteve DanielsonMS WF teamJon FlandersMS WF rules teamMS WF teamPaul AndrewMS WF team (and a kiwi;)Kavita KamaniMS WF teamGhenadieMS WF team [read].
Posted: Sun, Sep 16th '07 |
My live (hotmail) mail account moved to 5 GB !!!!
Serge Luca
here is what I saw this evening in my Windows live mail(hotmail) account:
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Posted: Thu, Aug 30th '07 |
Around the globe
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my album
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