Professional Microsoft® SharePoint® Designer 2007

17.4. Creating Your Add-In

Chapters 9 and 15 showed you how to build workflows using SharePoint Designer with built-in and custom-written actions. While those workflows are powerful, they are not easily portable. In fact, those workflows cannot be associated with any other lists or document libraries, as built-in workflows or Visual Studio–created workflows can. However, by exporting the workflow files and making a few modifications, these SharePoint Designer–created workflows can be transformed into Visual Studio workflows.

To create a SharePoint Designer add-in, open Visual Studio 2008 and select File New Project. The New Project dialog (Figure 17-5) appears. Select either Visual C# or Visual Basic from the Project types list, and select SharePoint Designer 2007 Add-in Project from the templates list. Enter SPDWorkflowExporter as the name for the Project, and click the OK button.

Figure 17-5. Figure 17-5

Because the Project templates are not marked as safe in the Registry, the Security Warning dialog shown in Figure 17-6 will appear. Select the option Load Project normally, and click the OK button. You can click More Details if you want instructions on disabling the warning for ...