Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Business Processes, Part 3 of 4

Course description

Microsoft Office SharePoint 2010 Server provides a wealth of services that you can use, customize, and extend to augment and streamline your business processes. This course covers these features and teaches you how to build on them to create business solutions. The beginning of the course orients you with the built-in capabilities and teaches how to customize them using SharePoint Designer. From there you will learn how to create custom forms using both ASP.NET and InfoPath. The last half of the course teaches how to build custom workflows in SharePoint using Visual Studio and covers sequential workflows, state machines, tasks, and custom workflow forms using both ASP.NET and InfoPath.

Each LearnNowOnline training course is made up of Modules (typically an hour in length). Within each module there are Topics (typically 15-30 minutes each) and Subtopics (typically 2-5 minutes each). There is a Post Exam for each Module that must be passed with a score of 70% or higher to successfully and fully complete the course.

Meet the expert

Robert Green

Robert Green is a Visual Studio expert and a featured instructor for several of our Visual Basic and Visual C# courses. He is currently a Technical Evangelist in the Developer Platform and Evangelism (DPE) group at Microsoft. He has also worked for Microsoft on the Developer Tools marketing team and as Community Lead on the Visual Basic team. Robert has several years of consulting experience focused on developer training and is a frequent speaker at technology conferences including TechEd, VSLive, VSConnections, and Advisor Live.

Video Runtime

131 Minutes

Time to complete

171 Minutes

Course Outline

Module 5

Workflow Fundamentals (16:11)

• Introduction (00:36)
• SharePoint: Workflow Platform (00:27)
• Common Uses and Capabilities (00:26)
• Items Workflows Can Support (00:27)
• SharePoint/Workflow Foundation (01:20)
• Two Types of Workflows (00:49)
• Visual Studio Workflow Designer (01:36)
• Demo: Workflow Fundamentals (10:25)
• Summary (00:02)

Workflows In Code (48:37)

• Introduction (00:15)
• Creating Workflow Associations (00:19)
• Workflow Association Objects (01:24)
• Demo: Workflow Associations (13:13)
• SharePoint Client Object Model (02:08)
• Demo: SharePoint Client Object (09:39)
• Starting a Workflow Instance (00:25)
• Start a Workflow in Code (01:13)
• Demo: Start a Workflow in Code (10:50)
• Collecting Data in Workflow (01:36)
• Using Association & Init Data (00:20)
• Demo: Workflow Data (06:37)
• Summary (00:33)

Module 6

Sequential Workflows (21:14)

• Introduction (00:48)
• SharePoint Workflows (00:36)
• Code-based Workflow Elements (01:07)
• Binding Properties: Activities (02:23)
• Flow of Control (01:45)
• Rules and Conditions (00:27)
• Sequential Workflows (01:14)
• Demo: Sequential Workflows (12:49)
• Summary (00:02)

State Machine Workflows (19:16)

• Introduction (00:15)
• State Machine Workflows (02:00)
• Demo: State Machine Workflows (03:10)
• Demo: Final State (07:08)
• Demo: Set SetState Activities (04:11)
• Demo: Deploy Workflow (02:28)
• Summary (00:02)

Faults/Activities Debugging (25:52)

• Introduction (00:15)
• Faults and Canceled Workflows (01:07)
• Using the FaultHandler Activity (00:55)
• Handling Workflow Exceptions (00:48)
• Handling Canceled Workflows (00:28)
• Demo: Faults/Canceled Workflow (08:05)
• SharePoint Workflow Activities (00:57)
• Demo: Workflow Activities (09:33)
• Debugging Your Workflow (00:19)
• Demo: Debugging Your Workflow (02:58)
• Summary (00:23)