Most interesting from SharePoint 2010 Virtual Ignite Training: 3rd Day

10 feb 2010: Virtual SharePoint 2010 Ignite Training for Developer

Day topics:

• Workflow
• Services Architecture
• External Data in SharePoint (BCS)
• Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

Notes:

"Whats New" for SharePoint 2010 Workflow

• For the end-user
  • New targets to run a workflow
  • Visio visualization

• For the power-user
  • Improved nested logic
  • New Task Process designer
  • Customizable OOB workflows

• For the developer
• Visual Studio 2010 SharePoint tools
• Workflow Events
• Pluggable External Data Exchange Services

SharePoint Designer Improvements for Workflow

• For Design
  • New declarative workflow designer
  • Advanced task process designer
  • InfoPath forms
  • Visio workflow designer

• For Development
  • Reusable workflows
  • Visio visualizations
  • Export as WSP

SharePoint 2010 offers new development process:

1. Envision workflow in Visio
2. Import into SharePoint Designer
   • Parametrize
3. Export to Visual Studio 2010
   • Add code

Visio -> SPD -> Visual Studio 2010

What's new in Visual Studio 2010 for Workflows

• Site Workflows
  • List / Item properties are null
  • No auto-start

• ASP .NET Form Templates
• New events
• External Data Exchange

Workflow Events:

• Events fired during workflow lifetime
  • Started, Completed…
• Scenarios
  • Call sub-workflows and wait for completion
  • Provide more elaborate error handling
• Familiar model for developers
• SPWorkflowEventReceiver
  • Base class for handling workflow events
  • Register on site / list / content type

Enterprise Content Management

• Unique Document ID Service
  • New site collection Feature: Document ID
  • Adds unique ID for all documents throughout the site collection
  • Documents can be retrieved regardless of the current of future location on their unique ID

• Enterprise Content Types
  • Define once for the enterprise, use in multiple site collections in the same or different farms

• Advanced Routing
  • Advanced routing - users upload to sites
    • Routing rules will determine where the document is saved
    • Routing rules defined by site administrators
  • Adds capability for documents to be sent to Record Center automatically on a schedule

Videos:

• Enterprise Content Management:
  • ECM and Enterprise Metadata (20 min 31 sec)
  • Advanced Routing and Document Sets (13 min 52 sec)
  • In place Records Management (2 min 27 sec)