By default logic apps will be set to trigger every 60 minutes which, if you are not aware, may lead you to thinking that your logic app isn’t working at all! As Logic Apps are preview there are some features that are not available through the designer yet, but you can do a lot through the Code view. In this instance …

What I want: When the logic app trigger receives a JSON formatted message from Azure Service Bus topic, I want to send a notification to the “email” field. My sample message structure looks like this: What happens: Because a message received on service bus doesn’t have a predefined format – it could be JSON, XML, or …

There is a direct correlation between a form template URN and the my namespace uri that is required by infopath forms referencing the template. This little method will give you the namespace required for a given template URN. This is nothing complex, but is handy nontheless. 1public static string …

To enumerate site collections on a farm:``` SPWebService contentService = SPWebService.ContentService; foreach(SPWebApplication app in contentService.WebApplications) { if (app.Sites.Count > 0) { // pick the first site (root site) SPSite rootSite = app.Sites[0]; Trace.WriteLine(site.Url); } }

This is handy. SharePoint helpfully populates the meta data with the GUID of the list and the ID of the item a WF instance is associated with. These are stored in "ows_WorkflowListId" and "ows_WorkflowItemId" fields on the task list item. An example of using this is from an InfoPath form in the form …

Found an excellent article that introduces various need to know concepts: http://www.microsoft.com/belux/msdn/nl/community/columns/claessens/custompp.mspx

There is a interface IBaseMessageFactory that you can use to create instances of BizTalk messages and BizTalk message parts. You can grab a handle to an instance of a subtype of this interface from within the Dissassemble method using the IPipelineContext.GetMessageFactory(). An important thing to note is that in order …

Using class member variables will not work if you want to persist state between invocations. This seems to be due to the way sharepoint manages timer jobs. A solution is to use the Properties property which is exposed to all SPJobDefinition subtypes. This is a hashtable which accepts a key value pair. Usage: 1public …

The reason the Office Sharepoint Server Workflow Task is not visible is because it is assigned to a special group named "_Hidden" which precludes it from being displayed in the site collection content type view. As it turns out content types are exposed and manipulable through the Sharepoint OM using the …

We have a workflow that is a mix of simple tasks and MOSS infopath forms server workflow tasks. To that end we remove the TaskListContentTypeId from workflow.xml and use the CreateTaskWithContentType shape to manually set the content type on appropriate tasks. This works fine until we come to deploy on a fresh …