InfoPath Video Tutorial: Upload images from InfoPath to SharePoint using a custom SPD activty – Part 1

by S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton

In this InfoPath video tutorial you'll learn how to create a custom SharePoint Designer activity that loops through and uploads images stored within an InfoPath browser form to a SharePoint Picture Library. This is part 1 of a 2-part video tutorial.


This video tutorial assumes that you’ve already created an InfoPath browser form with a repeating table that stores images.

In this InfoPath video tutorial, you learned…

  • How to create a Workflow Activity Library in Visual Studio.
  • How to add Microsoft SharePoint references to a Visual Studio project.
  • How to sign an assembly from within Visual Studio.
  • How to write C# code to loop through, convert, and upload images to a SharePoint Picture Library from within a custom workflow activity.
  • How to retrieve the public key token of the DLL for a custom workflow activity.
  • How to deploy the DLL for a custom workflow activity to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).

View part 2 of this video tutorial series.

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