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Using Active Directory Searching/Lookup in a SharePoint/MOSS 2007 Workflow (with Visual Studio 2008)

Posted By: Robert Shelton | Nov 29th, 2007 @ 4:08 PM | Comments: 1
Using Active Directory Searching/Lookup in a SharePoint/MOSS 2007 Workflow (with Visual Studio 2008)
This is the eighth in a series (the series is listed at the bottom) of "How To " Videos that I have created to show .NET Developers how to build document workflow in a SharePoint environment. 

In the How to Videos that I produced on "Building Approval Workflow's" and "Escalating Workflow's (for overdue tasks), I kept things simple (focusing on the Workflow) and did not do dynamic lookups of people/users against Active Directory (AD), choosing to "hard code" the users in the workflow.

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Tags: Sharepoint, Visual Studio, VS 2008

Building an Multilevel Approval Workflow with SharePoint/MOSS 2007 and Visual Studio 2008

Posted By: Robert Shelton | Nov 27th, 2007 @ 7:15 PM | Comments: 0
Building an Multilevel Approval Workflow with SharePoint/MOSS 2007 and Visual Studio 2008
This is the seventh of a series (the series is listed at the bottom) of "How To " Videos that I have created to show .NET Developers how to build document workflow in a SharePoint environment.  In this scenario, I take the workflow that I built in the How To Video on Building a Basic Approval Workflow (found here) by adding a second level (and you could extend it to multiple levels) of Approval based on a SharePoint Custom Column (Expense Report Total in this case).  Although I built…[more ]
Tags: CSharp, Sharepoint, Visual Studio, VS 2008

Building an Approval Workflow with SharePoint/MOSS 2007 and Visual Studio 2008

Posted By: Robert Shelton | Nov 21st, 2007 @ 3:56 PM | Comments: 0
Building an Approval Workflow with SharePoint/MOSS 2007 and Visual Studio 2008
This is the sixth of a series of "How To " Videos that I have created to show .NET Developers how to build document workflow in a SharePoint environment.  In this scenario, I show you how to build a Simple 1 level Approval Workflow around a fictional Expense Report.  In the video I focus on the Workflow piece, although I show that I am using a Custom ASP.NET Task Form and a Custom SharePoint Feature.  If you want to learn how to build a Multilevel Approval Workflow, then start…[more ]
Tags: Sharepoint, VS 2008

SharePoint Document Workflow: Programmatically Escallating an Overdue Task with Visual Studio

Posted By: Robert Shelton | Nov 1st, 2007 @ 12:51 PM | Comments: 0
SharePoint Document Workflow: Programmatically Escallating an Overdue Task with Visual Studio
Note: Due upload size limitations, I have only posted the first 10 minutes of the Screencast here.  Please see my blog for the full version: Click here (to go to my blog)This video (#5 in the series of How To Videos on SharePoint/MOSS 2007 "Document" Workflow with Visual Studio) addresses one of the most common questions/needs: "How can I build an Escalation workflow in SharePoint?".  It turns out that this is a very Advanced Workflow scenario and therefore will take me a bit…[more ]
Tags: Sharepoint, Visual Studio, VS 2008

SharePoint Document Workflow: Programmatically Creating a User Task

Posted By: Robert Shelton | Oct 29th, 2007 @ 2:49 PM | Comments: 1
SharePoint Document Workflow: Programmatically Creating a User Task
The question that I get most often when I talk to developers about SharePoint Document Workflow is on Sending and Tracking tasks for the people participating in a document workflow.  So, in this 4th part of the series that I am doing on "Building Document Workflow" in SharePoint/MOSS 2007, I am demonstrating how to send a basic SharePoint Task with Visual Studio and at the end you will see how to connect an Outlook Client to the Portals Task List, so that a user can see the tasks within their Outlook desktop Client.


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Tags: Sharepoint, Visual Studio

SharePoint Document Workflow: Extracting email addresses and sending emails

Posted By: Robert Shelton | Oct 25th, 2007 @ 8:05 PM | Comments: 0
SharePoint Document Workflow: Extracting email addresses and sending emails
In this 3rd part of the series that I am doing on "Building Document Workflow" in SharePoint/MOSS 2007, I am demonstrating one of the more widely used functions in document workflow: Sending Emails.  In this scenario, I have a SharePoint List configured to receive email from outside of the corporate firewall (see the links below to learn how to configure your server to do the same), and from that document I extract the email address and then send an automated email response within the workflow.

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Tag: Sharepoint

SharePoint Document Workflow: Extracting document details with your workflow

Posted By: Robert Shelton | Oct 23rd, 2007 @ 6:47 PM | Comments: 2
SharePoint Document Workflow: Extracting document details with your workflow
This is a 2nd part of a series that I am doing on "Building Document Workflow" in SharePoint/MOSS 2007 that I am producing.  You can find the freely downloadable workshops that accompanying these videos on my blog here. The scenario is a company has created a portal which will accept resume's for job postings, and that via workflow, the MOSS 2007 portal will handle the workflow (automatically and with human interaction where needed) to process the resume's (documents). In this…[more ]
Tag: Sharepoint

Enabling (incoming/outgoing) email for SharePoint/MOSS 2007

Posted By: Robert Shelton | Oct 23rd, 2007 @ 6:19 AM | Comments: 1
Enabling (incoming/outgoing) email for SharePoint/MOSS 2007
This is a first part of a series that I am doing on "Building Document Workflow" in SharePoint/MOSS 2007 that I am producing.  You can find the freely downloadable workshops that accompanying these videos on my blog here. The scenario is a company has created a portal which will accept resume's for job postings, and that via workflow, the MOSS 2007 portal will handle the workflow (automatically and with human interaction where needed) to process the resume's (documents). This is the first…[more ]
Tag: Sharepoint

Encrypting your web.config file with ASP 2.0 (Visual Studio 2005)

Posted By: Robert Shelton | Nov 7th, 2005 @ 3:35 PM | Comments: 6
Encrypting your web.config file with ASP 2.0 (Visual Studio 2005)

Federal Developer Evangelist, Robert Shelton, Jr., takes you through a short (8 minute) demonstration of how Encrypt portions of your web.config with ASP 2.0 (Visual Studio 2005).  This walkthrough shows you how to encrypt two sections of your web.config (AppSettings and ConnectionStrings) with the DPAPI (DataProtectionConfigurationProvider).  In addition to these two sections, you can also encrypt your Identity and SessionState sections.

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Tags: ASP.NET, CSharp, Security, Visual Studio

Searching Active Directory with .NET (Visual Studio 2005)

Posted By: Robert Shelton | Nov 2nd, 2005 @ 6:56 PM | Comments: 7
Searching Active Directory with .NET (Visual Studio 2005)

Federal Developer Evangelist, Robert Shelton, takes you through a 12 minute walkthrough/demonstration of how to search Active Directory for users, groups, and other AD Objects.  This demonstration is using the DirectoryServices namespace of the .NET framework.  The demonstration is using Visual Studio 2005, but the code will also work as written for Visual Studio 2003.


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Tags: CSharp, Networking, Security, Visual Studio
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