SharePoint & windows Workflow Foundation &...

During this time, the focus has been shifted from sps2003 and WSS 2.0 to the SharePoint of the next version. With office12, it will be Office Sharepoint Server 12 (oss12, or oss2007 ?) And Windows SharePoint Services V3 (WSS V3 ). OTEC members actually received a lot of oss12 messages from ocean when they attended the OTEC meeting. Now, like everyone else, I am waiting for the release of office12 beta2. Because beta2 will be a public beta version, we will get more messages than we do now.

Currently, WSS 2.0 SP2 is also a very interesting version, because it can well support ASP. NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005. You only need to install it on the Windows 2003 sp1 server. net Framework 2.0 distribution package and SQL Server 2005, And then install WSS 2.0 SP2, you will find that WSS runs well, you can even put the WSS management center site and SharePoint site ASP. net version is adjusted to 2.0. Of course, you still cannot directly put the webpart or user control in ASP. NET 2.0 into WSS 2.0 SP2 unless you use the son of smartpart package. (As for my user control package, well, I am not really interested in continuing to upgrade it to support ASP. NET 2.0 ...)

WSS 2.0 SP2 provides good support for. NET Framework 2.0, which also brings us a great benefit, that is, we can take advantage of many good things on the 2.0 platform, such as Windows Workflow Foundation.

This evening, I tried a workflow for WSS 2.0 SP2 on my machine with vs2005 + WWF jan06 CTP and used it to drive the documents in the document library for some automated operations. The WWF changes greatly from beta1 to beta2, and many attribute names of the activity have changed (for example, all comment attributes of the activity have changed to enabled, which is easier to understand ), in beta1, invokemethod and eventsink are replaced with callexternalmethod and handleexternalevent, while SelectDate, updatedata, and waitfordate are missing, the names of other similar interfaces and classes vary a lot. Here you can download a copy of beta1 to beta2 change document.

If you are interested in the above example of WWF + WSS 2.0 SP2, click here to download it. Because it was my own test,CodeIt is very messy. We recommend that you only use vs2005 to understand the approximate structure. My biggest experience in this example is that WWF greatly reduces the difficulty of working flow. If there is no WWF, a similar workflow engine is completed on SharePoint, it won't be a simple task.