Welcome to my blog on all things SharePoint and .NET. I have a range of articles that will interest you if you've made it as far as visiting my blog. I currently live in Perth, Western Australia and am a Independent Sharepoint Consultant. I founded the SharePointDevWiki.com and help facilitate the Perth SharePoint User Group.

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Conferences

Solution Development in SharePoint 2007

This series was inspired by the chatter amongst SharePoint blogs on the best ways to approach customisations in SharePoint using Solutions.

Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8

Leveraging the SharePoint Platform

This series was inspired by a discussion had with Andrew Coates at a Perth SharePoint User Group meeting. This then turned into a 6 part series on Arno Nell's SharePointMagazine.net web site.

Initial post - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6

Webcasts

I have recorded various web casts that I present at User Groups or just on a specific topic by request:
How ASP.NET Developers can leverage SharePoint webcast
SPSource Webcast: Reverse engineer Lists to ListTemplates and much more
SharePoint Development with Unit Testing webcast
Perth SharePoint UG Web Cast on approaches to deploying artefacts (SPSource)
More...


Podcasts

I have been interviewed about Leveraging the SharePoint Platform by the SharePoint Pod Show: listen here .

Latest Posts

Empower Users to manage Workflow (Part 1)

May 18, 2008

I've repeatedly stated that there are certain areas of the SharePoint 2007 stack that are not true Enterprise level features. Workflow is one of them and various other bloggers and reports have stated this, my research links are a testimony to this. I believe Microsoft have confused the SharePoint community by giving two options with SharePoint Designer (SPD) Workflows and Visual Studio (VS) more...

 

Error: Changing a workflow and getting a state on a persisted Workflow Instance

October 6, 2006

I was experimenting with Persistance and created some workflow instances and unloaded them. these appeared in my database with appropriate Guid's. I then closed the application and reopened it and returned the State of the workflow fine using:    StateMachineWorkflowInstance stateMachineWorkflowInstance = new StateMachineWorkflowInstance(w more...

 

WF DelayActivity State Information

October 5, 2006

I've been investigating the Windows Workflow Platform for the last two weeks and have really been pushing it to it's limits with regards to custom State Workflows and persisting it to the database. Great introduction article on State Machines in Windows Workflow and this one on the Base Activity's and this on switching on SQL Persistance. We've been looking into the migration of existing instance more...