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Just a quick note (as a reminder to self). Here's a list of the Custom Activity Type Names that you can refer to in your code :

This blog post illustrates how to add a custom action into an MSI targeted for a 64 bit platform. Hence, If you want to run custom actions on a 64 bit platform then this is the read for you!

Today I was trying to find a way to programmatically create a publishing page and start the default approval workflow attached to the pages library. The reason that I had to programmatically start the workflow (instead of relying on SharePoint to automatically start it for me) was because my code was running under the system account (in this case under a WCF web service IIS process) and, since SP1, SharePoint will not automatically start a workflow if the list item is being changed by the system account (see this blog post for more information).

One of the best articles that I’ve read so far about the importance of properly disposing SPWeb and SPSite objects has been written by one of my favourite SharePoint bloggers Stefan Gossner and can be found here.

Ever wanted to use the same page layout containing a DFWP, and bind it to a local site list in each site of your site collection ?