K2 Releases Task List Mobile App

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K2TaskListAppLogoK2 announced the release of a K2 Task List application for iPhone and BlackBerry. These applications allow users to review and respond to any K2 task. Furthermore, process and form data can be accessed via your phone. The application has the same features as the K2 Worklist including delegation, redirection and sleeping a task.

The following images display the app in action:

K2TaskListAppProcess   K2TaskListAppTasks  K2TaskListAppSleepTask

The following table outlines the features available on the phones:
K2TaskListAppAbilities

For more information visit the K2 Mobile page – http://www.k2.com/en/K2mobile.aspx

Download these applications now from:
iPhone App Store
BlackBerry App World

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K2 Wins Best of Tech Ed 2011

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K2BestOfTechEd2011

K2 blackpearl won the Best SharePoint Development product in the 2011 Best of Tech Ed North America Awards on May 18th.

Congratulations to the K2 team – great recognition for all the hard work.

For those who don’t know, K2 blackpearl is workflow and BPM software for automating enterprise business processes, building SharePoint applications and integrating Microsoft solutions into SAP.

View the full press release here.

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K2 blackpearl now supports Visual Studio 2010

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K2blackpearl K2 announced the release of its process designer, K2 Designer for Visual Studio, with Visual Studio 2010 support. It is fully integrated into the Visual Studio 2010 project system, featuring seamless integration with Team Foundation Server and MSBuild.

It leverages the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) based canvas allowing users to visually design processes. K2 wizards generate WPF schedules and activities, which can be customized in the Visual Studio environment.

Processes can incorporate both .NET 3.5 and .NET 4 code into the same process definition, providing application longevity and leveraging the latest Microsoft platform technologies.

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Visual Studio 2008 Freezes

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Visual Studio  Last week I was making a couple of tweaks to a friends website when Visual Studio 2008 kept freezing on me. It would freeze every time I went to the code editor for a web page and the only way to recover would be by using Task Manager to kill the program.

After some searching, I found this post outlining how an install of Office 2010 on a 64-bit environment was the problem and corrupted the Visual Studio Web Authoring Component. The fix is pretty straight forward:

1.  If an automatic upgrade was performed from Office 2007 (32-bit) to Office 2010 (32-bit) on a 64-bit OS:

  • In Add/Remove Programs, locate "Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component"
  • Right-click and select "Change"
  • When a dialog opens, choose "Repair" option

2.  If you manually uninstalled Office 2007 on a 64-bit OS:

  • In Add/Remove Programs, uninstall "Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component"
  • If you are using Visual Studio 2008:
    • From the Visual Studio 2008 media, navigate into the WCU\WebDesignerCore folder and install WebDesignerCore.exe
    • If you were upgraded to Visual Studio 2008 SP1, you must reinstall Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2008.
  • If you are using Visual Web Developer Express:
    • Uninstall and reinstall Visual Web Developer 2008 Express

Links
Rosscify Article
Microsoft KB Article

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BizTalk Server 2009 Migration Chart

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BTS2009UpgradePath

I was looking into the options for upgrading BizTalk Server 2006 applications to BizTalk Server 2009, and came across this great BizTalk Server 2009 Upgrade Migration Chart.

Link: BizTalk Server 2009 Upgrade Migration Chart

 

 

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BizTalk 2009 and ESB Toolkit 2.0 on 64-bit Windows Server 2008 R2

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Recently I ran into an installation problem with BizTalk Server 2009 and the ESB Toolkit 2.0 on a 64-bit Windows 2008 R2 server. There are two issues to deal with here:

  1. BizTalk Server 2009 is not supported on Windows Server 2008 R2, only Windows Server 2008.
  2. On the 64-bit environment, the powershell command scripts use BTSCalatogExplorer OM which is only available in 32-bit mode. After manually loading the 32-bit powershell console and running the script, all is well.

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K2 blackpearl Reporting without SSRS

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K2 blackpearl 4.5 One of the enhancements included in the K2 blackpearl 4.5 release is the fact that K2 Reports are no longer dependent on SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). This is true for the Workspace Report Designer Reports and Out of the Box Reports that are hosted in the K2 Workspace or in the SharePoint Process Portal.

Of course SQL Server Reporting Services is still supported where customers wish to publish reports to externally, i.e. not in the K2 Workspace or SharePoint Process Portals; or want to develop reports with alternate design tools and then import the reports into the K2 Workspace. In this case the K2 Reporting Component for SQL Server Reporting Services needs to be installed on the SQL Server.

It is also possible to remove the dependency on SSRS completely. The K2 Knowledge Center has an article explaining how to do it in more detail here.

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Source Control – it’s Essential!

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Visual Studio 2010

With the announcement regarding the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 on April 12th, I started thinking about some conversations that I’ve had with clients over the last couple of months. Many have expressed interest in getting to use the new development environment and were eagerly waiting for its release. In two cases these clients didn’t have source control systems. I would never have believed it, however I’ve seen it (or the lack of it). To make it worse, one of these is an enterprise level organization with scores of development teams, developing everything from their corporate web site to large scale EAI initiatives. Their reason for not using source control – Team Foundation Server is too complex to install and manage. And they do daily backups. Well, okay then!

Back to Visual Studio. Visual Studio is much more than just a development environment these days, in conjunction with Team Foundation Server, it’s an application lifecycle management system. It’s features include version control, build automation and work item tracking to name but a few. As far as I’m concerned, having these capabilities is essential to organisations that do a lot of in-house development. One option that I often recommend is to use a hosted solution. Let the experts take care of it! Over the past year I’ve made use Praktik Hosting for work with some of my clients, especially the small to midsize and remote clients. They have a great monthly subscription plan and have never been down. So, get Visual Studio 2010, and leave Team Foundation Server to the experts.

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BizTalk ESB Toolkit Architecture Poster

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BizTalk ESB Architecture Poster

The BizTalk ESB Architecture Poster is now available from the Microsoft Download Center.

Link: BizTalk ESB Toolkit Architecture Poster

 

 

 

 

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K2 4.5 for K2 blackpearl, K2 blackpoint and K2 connect Released!

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K2_4-5

On Monday K2 announced the release of K2 4.5. K2 4.5 includes several new features and enhancements to the family of K2 products, K2 blackpearl, K2 blackpoint and K2 connect. K2 4.5 is  geared to increase versatility and scalability, as well as simplifying maintenance.

K2 4.5 contains several new features and enhancements including:

  • An updated, more powerful Web-based designer, K2 Designer for SharePoint and K2 Studio
  • Inline functions, allowing process designers to include functions and calculations in processes without having to write code
  • Enhanced SmartObject functionality
  • Memory and performance improvements, across design time and runtime
  • A simplified installation experience

My top 3 new features are:

  1. K2 Studio – the new standalone designer that can used to build quick process driven applications (regular and SharePoint based applications).
    K2 Studio
  2. The K2 Designer for SharePoint – providing a simplified design environment to build workflow processes in SharePoint.
    K2 Designer for SharePoint
  3. Inline Functions – allowing for complex logic and calculations within the design canvas – no more calling code functions.
     Inline Functions

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