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Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Problem publishing Workflow to WSS 3.0 From Visual Studio 2008

I ran into a problem publishing then after some googling came across this article on how to fix it.
I thought I would provide the info here and a link to the original article.
Hope you find this helpful.

http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/08/08/creating-sharepoint-workflows-for-wss-with-visual-studio-2008.aspx

Creating SharePoint Workflows for WSS with Visual Studio 2008

I just ran across one of those nuisance things with Visual Studio 2008
that I haven't seen before. Create a SharePoint workflow (Sequential or
State, doesn't matter) for a WSS site (not MOSS). Build the project,
you'll get an error similar to the following:
Error
3 Feature '739f61bf-5616-427a-80d6-ed30fdc04b1f' could not be
installed because the loading of event receiver assembly
"Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Feature, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" failed: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could
not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Feature, Version=12.0.0.0,
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c' or one of its dependencies.
The system cannot find the file specified.
Turns out that VS2008 is only
supported on MOSS. Tucked away in the comments in Nikhil's blog, he shows how
to use Visual Studio 2008 to create workflows for Windows SharePoint Services
3.0.
To get it to work on WSS there is a workaround. Remove the reference
to Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Tasks from project assembly references. This
assembly is only available in the MOSS version of SharePoint and will not be
resolved on a machine with WSS installed.
Also, open the feature.xml in the
project and remove the ReceiverAssembly="Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Feature,
Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c" and
ReceiverClass="Microsoft.Office.Workflow.Feature.WorkflowFeatureReceiver". This
feature receiver is required for MOSS related functionality (InfoPath forms) and
should not affect your WSS workflow development.



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