Sharepoint Workflow Development (2 part question)

Question

I\'m trying to develop some SharePoint workflows for the company I work for, and I\'m not too familiar with the ins and outs of the technology. Normally when I want to familiar

Answer 1

While it's true you need SharePoint installed on your development computer for most SharePoint development, you can get away without it for workflow development. Follow these steps:

• Copy the SharePoint DLLs to your development computer (for workflow you'll need microsoft.sharepoint.WorkflowActions.dll).
• Open Visual Studio and open the Toolbox tab
• Add a new tab (call it SharePoint Workflow Items)
• In the new tab, click "Add Items"
• Click the "Activities" tab
• Locate and add microsoft.sharepoint.WorkflowActions.dll
• You'll see a few new tasks show up and already selected.

Once you do this, you'll be able to develop WF workflows that can use SharePoint-specific tasks. Deployment and testing the workflow is another task altogether.