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Visual Studio tools for office 2008 provides variety of workflow templates. Ofcourse, these workflow templates are based on Windows Workflow foundation (WF) . Continuing the efforts of integrating the other technologies usage and making the Visual Studio as a single UI IDE for developing various components of different technology, Microsoft have came up with few workflow templates specific for SharePoint in Visual Studio tools for office. This article will give you sneak preview about the sharepoint workflows and also provide details on why should we use the sharepoint workflow templates of Visual studio 2008.

For use in the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, this web control is an alternative to the out-of-the-box "Current Navigation" a.k.a. AspMenu. It renders navigational nodes using list tags.

This article describe an abstract web part class developed for the SharePoint 2007 (WSS 3.0 or MOSS 2007) platform. The web part contains the logic to address some known conflicts between SharePoint and ASP.NET AJAX and is designed as the base class for all AJAX enabled SharePoint web parts.

I am a self confessed command line junkie. Sure I see value in GUIs, and GUIs are great to get accustomed to a tool, but once I start crawling, I like to walk, run, and then fly. And when I fly, a GUI's sluggishness in getting tasks done becomes seriously annoying.

One complaint about Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 2.0 and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 was the difficulty in making changes to the environment after it was deployed. Officially, changing a site definition isn't supported after it has been used to create other sites.

Now, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 offer many ways to make changes to sites after they have been provisioned. The introduction of SharePoint Features has opened up an entire world to changing master pages, page layouts, and pages themselves. Further, SharePoint now includes a new technique—delegate controls—that allows for more fine-grained control over parts of the page.

Custom SharePoint lists are like tables in a traditional database; in some ways they're even better. But as organizations adopt this new data store, they introduce additional complexities in integrating new list-based solutions with existing database applications. This article shows you how to solve the data mismatch problem by using the Extract Transform and Load (ETL) capabilities of Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) and Microsoft's new Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML).

SharePoint and Workflow may be the most powerful combination since chocolate and peanut butter, but the trick is harnessing their combined power. That isn't as easy as it first seems, but in this article you'll learn how create a SharePoint workflow in Visual Studio from start to finish.

In this article I intend to discuss Web Part connections, and finally finish at writing and deploying custom Web Parts in SharePoint 2007..

If you were hoping for some new widgets to make repetitive development tasks simpler in Sharepoint, the new 3.0 version did not disappoint. With the new Visual Studio 2005 Extensions things like creating list and site definitions no longer have to be done from scratch.

Learn how to use Microsoft's XML-based Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) as a query language, letting you find and display SharePoint items dynamically.