Very very annoying error, I know. This is one of those errors that Microsoft decided not to provide a lot of detail. I just spent the better part of 2 hours searching the web trying to find a solution. I found a lot of differing fixes, but none seemingly applied to me. I finally sucked it up and applied each solution I found even though "I know that's not the issue." Silly me. I had this occuring on two servers at the same time, a customer server and my development server. The is... [More]

Microsoft announced March 30 that SharePoint Designer 2007 is now a free download! http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointdesigner/HA103607611033.aspx SharePoint Designer is a great tool for easy customizations of your existing SharePoint sites. You can make simple workflows, cross site data shares and customize the look and feel of the site.  

So, I've been using WSPBuilder to create my solutions, such a great add on for Visual Studio. I created a WSPBuilder Project and loaded up some app pages and web parts. I then realized I needed a workflow. So I right clicked on the project, selected Add then New Item. I selected Sequential Workflow Feature and clicked Add. It added all of the wonder files and references itself. I did have to combine the new feature.xml file with my existing so this would install under a single feature. When I ... [More]