Creating SharePoint Workflows with Visual Studio 2008

My friend Doug is having some problems with SharePoint workflows and using the OnTaskCreated activity.  He says it doesn't work, but I haven't had problems with this.  Hoping that this video helps him as well as shows some of my readers how to quickly create a workflow for SharePoint 2007 with Visual Studio 2008.

The whole video is only 8:44, starting from creating a project from scratch all the way to creating a simple workflow.

Doug - if you see any variation between what I did and what you did, please let me know.  I'd be glad to look up the hotfixes that are installed on the VPC if that helps as well. 

Double-click the video to watch full screen.

Comments

• Anonymous
  August 30, 2008
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• Anonymous
  August 30, 2008
  Thanks Kirk! As you know that's pretty much the same as the demo I sent you with a difference that I am setting task properties. I am getting the same error effect on a couple of environments, but I'm going to drop it onto a client's dev environment Tuesday to see if I can repro it there as well. It's worth noting that this often works for me as well. If I create 10 items in a row, a number of them will complete, but some won't and the path is indeterminate. In other words, sometimes only task1 is handled, sometimes 1 and 2, 2 and 3, 1 and 3, etc. I really appreciate you looking at this (on a Saturday morning no less) and I look forward to finding a fix. This problem in my opinion is extremely serious because once the event fails to fire, the workflow is in an unrecoverable, but non-error, state. Have fun at Tech-Ed!

• Anonymous
  August 30, 2008
  P.S. I'll put up a screen shot soon that shows what I am seeing.

• Anonymous
  August 30, 2008
  Robert Shelton has an entire series of "How To" SharePoint Workflow videos, including revised How To's leveraging VS 2008. Worth taking a look. http://www.sheltonblog.com/archive/2007/11/04/series-of-sharepoint-workflow-how-to-videos.aspx

• Anonymous
  August 30, 2008
  I believe I found the root cause. You can read about it here: http://www.elumenotion.com/Blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=69 I also included a possible work around for those affected. --Doug

• Anonymous
  August 30, 2008
  @Lamont - ABSOLUTELY agreed, I leverage Robert's material frequently.  For anyone wanting to see how to build real-world workflows with SharePoint and Visual Studio, check out Robert's fantastic work.

• Anonymous
  August 30, 2008
  @Lamont - ABSOLUTELY agreed, I leverage Robert's material frequently.  For anyone wanting to see how to build real-world workflows with SharePoint and Visual Studio, check out Robert's fantastic work.

• Anonymous
  August 30, 2008
  @Lamont - ABSOLUTELY agreed, I leverage Robert's material frequently.  For anyone wanting to see how to build real-world workflows with SharePoint and Visual Studio, check out Robert's fantastic work.

• Anonymous
  August 30, 2008
  @Doug - hoping that it is as simple as finding a missing hotfix, because I have customers running this same scenario in production under significant load without similar symptoms.