Pluggable workflow services is one of the most highly anticipated new workflow features for SharePoint 2010. This is because SharePoint 2007 workflows lacked the ability to communicate with the outside world. The most basic scenario is a workflow th ...[Read more]

If you need some action to occur when a user deletes a document, for example, you may right away think you need a workflow when in fact an event receiver will do. The main difference between the two is a workflow is typically long running, whereas a ...[Read more]

If you don't properly handle exceptions in the workflow and an error occurs, you'll get the dreaded "Error Occurred" string in the workflow status, with no help as to what went wrong. You're left with debugging your workflow, and if you do ...[Read more]

So you just built this compelling Visual Studio workflow and deployed it into production. Things go great for a few months, but then the business requests a small change to the workflow. You go back into the workflow code, add a few activities to fu ...[Read more]