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CodePlex Project Update: SharePoint Designer Workflow Extensions

A while ago, I wrote that I was trying to resurrect my old CodePlex project, SharePoint Designer Workflow Extensions. That CodePlex project was developed for WSS/MOSS and adds a handful of utility type functions, such as “ToLower()”, “ToUpper()”, “Substring()” and so forth. It even has a general purpose “call web service” style function. You can read more about it here: http://paulgalvinsoldblog.wordpress.com/2007/10/28/sharepoint-designer-custom-activity-to-execute-user-defined-c-functions/.

I more or less abandoned it quite a while ago. Ever since SharePoint 2010 came out, however, I’ve been meaning to look back at it and make it work in SP 2010. Well, today, I did just that. I haven’t updated the code to CodePlex yet. I want to educate myself on CodePlex conventions before I do that, but I did update the home page wiki for the project.

The wider and more interesting implication is that custom activities from WSS and MOSS seem to port over pretty easily, which is a (welcome) surprise to me.

Here’s what it looks like in SharePoint Designer when it’s working:

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CodePlex Project – SP2010 Explorer

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As part of an on-going effort to learn the technical low level details of SharePoint 2010, I’ve created a “SharePoint Explorer” kind of tool. The idea isn’t new. I used this project more than once: http://sharepointexplorer.codeplex.com/. My idea is to create a SharePoint version that uses connected web parts to show all the low-level detail that the object model can provide.

This blog post serves as both an announcement of the project as well as a call for volunteers. If you’re interested in working on this project, let me know via email (galvin.paul@gmail.com) and we’ll work it out.

Here is the project: http://sp2010explorer.codeplex.com/

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SharePoint Designer 2007 Workflow Extensions CodePlex Project

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I am putting together my second CodePlex project (details to be announced on Wednesday this week, plus or minus) and I had a look at my first project, “SharePoint Designer Workflow Extensions”. I was shocked and embarrassed to see that that it’s been downloaded over 4,800 times:

I basically forgot about this project in the last 12 months. I’m embarrassed because I have essentially abandoned it.

I’m going to have another look and remind myself of what it’s all about.

If anyone is interested in working on this, let me know and we’ll see about collaborating on it. 4,800 downloads isn’t a giant amount, but it’s more than I ever realized and it’s probably worth some effort picking it up and carrying it forward.

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