My simpsonized face:

 

 

After Paris, I've been the trainer of another OBA (Office Business Applications) Train The Trainer workshop last week in Bejing for Microsoft.

This was my first trip in China; almost 70 persons (many Microsoft employees) attended this 3 days course.

It was a great experience. After Joanna Bichsel and John Graham, I was fortunate to spend the week with Khawar Ahmed and Andrew Toner (both are OBA Product Managers).

 

 

 

Workflow discussion...

 

 

With Beiyang (Microsoft China-Shanghai)

 

 

 

On the Great Wall with Khawar Ahmed (Microsoft, Oba team)

 

 

In the Forbidden City

 

 

With Khawar Ahmed  and Andrew Toner (Microsoft Oba team)

 

 

 

According to Scott Guthrie, the source code of the .Net framework libraries 3.5 will be released under Microsoft Reference License.

This is going to be great for all of us who use Reflector on a daily basis but who don't want to post on the MS code for legal reasons.

So we'll be able to dig into the .net framework code from within our (VS2008) debugger; by the way , we already did it ten years ago with the C++ Microsoft Foundation Class Library. Great posts in perspective...Thanks MS! mmh what about Sharepoint ? there are some (workflow) obfuscated code parts I would like to see.

 

 

 

When I teach a Sharepoint course for U2U, I like to spend some time on the Page Processing Model (+ the role of IIS, ASP.Net and Sharepoint specific components like the Sharepoint modules, page layout, etc...)

 

The following URL (from the Sharepoint 2007 sdk 1.2) provides an excellent explanation. I didn't noticed it before...

More informations can be provided by opening up the Web Application's global.asax (where you'll find a reference to the SPHttpApplication) and the web.config file: you'll find references to  SPRequestModule & others .Net modules...).

 

 

 

 

I've received tons of e-mail about the next "episodes" of my "Workflow for Sharepoint " series.

I've been very busy on other works with U2U and Microsoft these last days (just have to teach a Oba Train the Trainer for U2U & Microsoft in China next week if I can get a visa ), I'm also working with Microsoft learning on creating some of the next Workflow Foundation  beta certifications exams questions, and I'll be back on track for the serie.

 

There are some very interesting of oba patterns where Workflow Foundation can play a important role, so....