Comparing SharePoint Designer 2007 and Visual Studio 2005 Designer

SharePoint Designer 2007 workflows are also referred to as no-code workflows. All activities used within a SharePoint Designer 2007 workflow are well-known safely registered libraries that already have been deployed on the server.

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A safely registered library is a .NET assembly that is registered as an entry on the SharePoint virtual server Web.config <SafeControls> list. Detailed information about this topic can be found in Chapter 31.

SharePoint Designer 2007 does not allow you to create your own activities, although it is able to generate raw XOML data, which is stored on the SharePoint server. During work-flow execution time, the XOML data is interpreted by the runtime engine, ...

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