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Recently, I’ve had to develop some custom workflows for a SharePoint solution. A lot of the examples you find on MSDN or the web for developing custom workflows for SharePoint involve writing some customer ACTIONS which you then use in your custom WORKFLOW. An ACTION is the thing the workflow will do, like “Send Email”, “Approve Invoice”, “Do Laundry”, etc. In going down this route, I found that once I wrote the ACTION, I didn’t really need to write the whole workflow. I could just use SharePoint Designer to create a workflow which used my custom ACTION.

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Everyone who was at the SharePoint 2009 Conference in Las Vegas has been very eagerly anticipating this moment, when SharePoint 2010 Beta, as well as the Office 2010 Betas, would be release for us all to play around with in the comfort of our own offices.  Up until now, the only playing we were allowed was in the massive hands-on labs that Microsoft made available to us in at the conference.

The first day of the SharePoint 2009 conference was a total whirlwind.  It started off with keynote speeches from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and CVP Office Platform Jeff Teper, and was M/C’ed by Senior Director of Product Management for SharePoint, Tom Rizzo. 

There is a lot constantly happening at Webworld Technologies, and as such we’ve created a number of channels by which you can follow what we’re doing, and catch the latest of what’s happening in the government & commercial IT industries. 

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In two weeks, Webworld Technologies will be attending the SharePoint 2009 conference in Las Vegas.  Among many topics that we’re looking forward to finding out about, one of them is the integration between SharePoint 2010 and Project Gemini – a technology which puts an immense amount of OLTP power right into Excel 2010, such that one can work with very large data sets, hacking & slicing, right from a mainstream laptop PC.