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SharePoint Workflow: While/OnTaskChanged not working


I came across this while developing workflows in SharePoint.  The SharePoint 2007 environment I develop in is MOSS 2007 w/SP1 and the Infrastructure Update and when a workflow was created with the following activities all processing would stop and the workflow would not wake up. What was happening is the workflow would enter the While […]

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KB957196 – Check-in event e-mail alert notification doesn’t work


  If you want to configure Work Item Hyperlinks to use Team System Web Access make sure you apply the following hotfix first.  If you do not apply the hotfix check-in notifications emails will stop working. Download the hotfix here. If you want to configure Work Item Tracking emails to use the TSWA URL you […]

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TFS and MS Project : Adding Duration from MS Project into Task Work Item


  I am going to step through an example of adding the “Duration” field from MS Project into an Agile Task Work Item. First download a copy of the MS Project field mapping file from the Team Project. Open a Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt and execute the following command: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio […]

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Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008


Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 is a great choice for customers who want a basic and simplified virtualization solution for consolidating servers as well as for development and test environments. Hyper-V Server 2008 only offers the most basic of virtualization features, making it ideal for: Test and Development Basic Server Consolidation Branch Office Consolidation Hosted Desktop […]

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Team Foundation Server Power Tools – October ’08 Release Sneak Peek


  Microsoft should have called it Team Foundation Server Power Tools – Best Release Ever, the features they’ve included in this up coming release really hit the mark.  There are 3 major new components to the October Power Tools release: Team Members – A new node has been added to the Team Explorer called "Team […]

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National Do Not Call List (DNCL) / Liste nationale de numéros de télécommunication exclus (LNNTE)


You can now register your phone numbers to stop those telemarketing calls from bothering you at all hours. You can register here: http://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca/ The site must be quite popular as I was only able to register two phone numbers……and then the site went down. I wonder if they could have used Visual Studio Team System […]

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Microsoft Tech·Days Canada 2008


  Tech·Days: The rich learning experience of Tech·Ed, without the travel. You’ve probably heard of Tech·Ed, the annual technology education and networking conference on Microsoft-based technologies. Perhaps you’ve even attended. Now, we’re happy to help save you the time and expense of travel by bringing the Tech·Ed experience to your city with Tech·Days 2008. Check […]

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Visual Studio Team System Developer Edition/Database Edition being combined!


As posted on Brian Harry’s blog today: Microsoft will be combining the Team Development product and the Team Database product into a single Team Development product (essentially giving you 2 for the price of 1).  That change will be in effect go into effect on 10/1/08 (the day after tomorrow). This is a huge announcement […]

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Using a SharePoint Content Type to merge data into a Word 2007 Document


I was recently tasked with the job of replacing a K2.NET 2003 Workflow that used some Word Automation to merge some data together and produce a document.  The C# code that did the automation ran on a x32 SharePoint 2007 Server but did not function whatsoever on the x64 platform, and besides server-side automation is […]

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Using Team Foundation Server to Develop Custom SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications


A whitepaper has been published about using Team Foundation Server to support your SharePoint Application Development Activities. Technorati Tags: Team Foundation Server, SharePoint Server 2007

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