The document discusses site and list workflows in SharePoint and compares two approaches: using SharePoint Designer versus creating custom workflows in Visual Studio. It provides details on creating a custom workflow action for string concatenation in Visual Studio, including defining dependency properties, adding the activity to the GAC, modifying the web.config, and using the gacutil tool. It also briefly mentions safe controls and authorization types.

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2. *Sequence of activities
*Serializing & DE serializing
*Two Types
* Site Workflows
* List Workflows
* Start When Created
* Start When Changed
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3. * All most all functionalities
* Greater scalability
* Hard to maintain / change
* No auto generated Visio diagrams
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4. * Easy to use
* Limited functionalities
* Easy to modify and change
* Auto generated Visio diagrams
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5. *Create using visual studio
*Plug to SharePoint designer
*Easy maintenance
*Easy to Change
*Auto generated Visio diagrams
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6. .Action
FIle
Designer
Web
Config
• Access
GAC
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7. *Create custom workflow action for string
concatenation
*C:Program FilesCommon FilesMicrosoft
SharedWeb Server Extensions14ISAPI
* Microsoft.SharePoint.dll
* Microsoft.sharepoint.WorkflowActions.dll
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8. Define Dependency Properties
Create Activity
Add to GAC
Create Actions.XML
Modify Web Config
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11. *gacutil /i some.dll
*gacutil /l some
*Use Framework 3.5
* C:Windowsassembly
* C:WindowsMicrosoft.NETassembly
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14. *Safe Controls
*Authorization Types
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