SharePoint – Workflow / SharePoint Designer vs. Visual Studio

SharePoint – Workflow / SharePoint Designer vs. Visual Studio Just a shor comparison table between SharePoint Designer tool and VS Category SharePoint Designer Visual Studio Supported WF Hosts WSS/MOSS WSS/MOSS/Others Development Model Wizard based Graphical Designer Types of Workflows Supported Sequential Sequential and State Workflow Type Markup only; markup file, rules and supporting files are uncompiled Markup with code behind compiled into an assembly Code Behind No Yes Activities Built-in and use custom Built-in, use and develop custom Forms Technology Autogenerated, customizable ASP.NET Forms Design forms in any technology including ASP.NET or InfoPath Association Associated automatically with a single list at design time. No other associations possible. Can be associated with multiple content types, lists, and document libraries Initiation Initiation forms are supported Initiation forms are supported Modification Cannot modify workflow using modification forms Can modify workflows Tasks Supports custom task forms Supports custom task forms Deployment Automatically deployed to associated list, live changes Must build package and deploy workflow using SharePoint feature technology Debugging No Debugging Visual Studio Debugging

Sharepoint WSS vs MOSS

http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2006/10/18/4910.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/scaravajal/archive/2006/11/18/moss-vs-wss-v3.aspx
http://www.wssdemo.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=185

MOSS web service query tool & MOSS07 Test Data Population Tool

SharePoint 2007 Test Data Population Tool


MOSS web service query tool

Joel does a great job once again with "Sample Data for Capacity Planning". What is really interesting was the report Joel ran on Microsoft team sites across 1TB of data. 62% of these sites were 5MB or below. There were an everage of 47 users per site, half of which were Contributers. 50% of all templates were Team Sites, while only 7% were blank.

Joel also pointed out The SharePoint 2007 Test Data Population Tool (WSSDW.exe) which is a capacity planning and performance testing tool that populates data for testing SharePoint deployments.

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Mauro Cardarelli chats about a nifty MOSS web service query tool. Im sure its been posted before, but get it here if you want it.

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Write Your CAML Queries in C# using CAML.NET - John Holliday chats about a great tool posted on CodePlex where you can write your CAML queries in .Net :

Translates to:

Go get the tool here

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Using a SharePoint List as an Authentication Provider: Part 1 and Using a SharePoint List as an Authentication Provider: Part 2- now this is something that i dont think i would use, but think its a really geeky cool idea. Check out Willy Rust's blog post:

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Randall posts about 10 Office Visual How-to Screencasts Now Published for MOSS!

Search

• Creating a Custom Search Page and Tabs in the Search Center of SharePoint Server by Patrick Tisseghem, U2U
• Creating and Exposing Managed Properties in the Advanced Search Page of SharePoint Server Enterprise Search by Patrick Tisseghem, U2U
• Creating and Exposing Search Scopes in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search by Patrick Tisseghem, U2U
• Creating Content Sources to Crawl Business Data in SharePoint Server 2007 Enterprise Search by Patrick Tisseghem, U2U
  

Business Data Catalog (BDC)

• Refining Business Data Catalog Search with Scopes by Ryan Femling, 3Sharp
• Using Business Data Catalog Actions to Pass Parameters to InfoPath 2007 Browser Forms by David Gerhardt, 3Sharp
• Filtering one Business Data Catalog List from Another by Using Associations in SharePoint Server 2007 by John Peltonen, 3Sharp (previously announced)
• Creating Business Data Catalog Entities in SharePoint Server 2007 by John Peltonen, 3Sharp (previously announced)
  

Excel Services

• Creating Managed-Code UDFs for Excel Services by Joel Krist, Akona Systems
• Retrieving Excel 2007 Workbooks or Snapshots Using Office SharePoint Server 2007 Excel Services by Joel Krist, Akona Systems (previously announced)

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Cant remember who originally posted this, but there is a nice article on MSDN on doing Team based development in MOSS.

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The Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies Team Blog announces "WSS 3.0 for Hosters Solution Kit now available on CodePlex"

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Published Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:13 AM by ArnoNel Filed under: Sharepoint, Office, Information Worker, Productivity