I’ve just published the first release for a CodePlex project I started to provide sample projects / solutions for using the Word Automation Services in SharePoint 2010. Word Automation Services allow you to convert document to and from different formats. File formats the service can read: Office Open XML (DOCX, DOCM, DOTX, DOTM) Word 97-2003 [...]
When you create a project in Visual Studio 2010 on one of the SharePoint project templates it will take care of all the packaging for you. But when I was working on a project with custom workflow actions, the SafeControl entry that is needed for making it work was not added to the generated manifest.xml [...]
Developing a custom workflow activity for SharePoint 2010 doesn’t differ that much from developing one for the MOSS 2007 platform. So by following the different articles on that you will be able to create one with ease. SharePoint 2010 still uses the same mechanism with an .ACTIONS file and adding an “authorizedType” element to your [...]
In SharePoint 2010 there are quite a few interesting changes to the User Profile System. In this post I will outline some of them. Profile types You can specify sub-types for profiles. For each profile property you can configure for which types the property is used. A user will be able to see or edit [...]
I just had a tough time deploy FAST Search Server 2010 Beta on a new SharePoint 2010 farm. Upon searching the internet it looked like I had the same issue as loads of other people, a not complete/wrong installation guide. But even after reviewing the posts in this thread and reading the post from Manfred [...]