Hi,
Our system is based on flows and activities and we want to give the analysts users the opportunity to create dynamics flows (at runtime).
The designer UI based on SL 4.0 .
It looks like WorkflowFoundation is the most valuable solution but we didn`t find any WF version that fits to SL (to create the xaml in SL).
Any ideas? any other capable engines?
Thanks,
Avi
The standard workflow designer is WPF and doesn't work in silverlight. Creating a similar designer will be quite a bit of work. However a simplified designer might do the trick and as a workflows is just xaml which is just XML generating that should be no problem. I guess it depends on the flexibity required.
I am not aware of any 3rd party alternatives out there.
Update:
http://sharedesigner.codeplex.com/releases/view/32301
might do the job.
Neither WF3 or WF4 execute within the Silverlight client. This includes the designers.
Actually, creating a Silverlight based workflow orchestration system is high on my development radar. I have 15 years of 2D CAD experience back in my electronic industry days (and was involved in an ANSI standards committee for that work) and I have been doing software development and architecture for over 20 years (gasp!). I drank the Silverlight Kool Aid when it first came out and have never looked back. Browser based dynamic workflow is the next wave of systems in America.
My question to you is.... do you have customers that could help fund this development? My expectation is that they could get it for a steal as I would eat the main cost since it is part of a product that I want to sell.
-Regards, Steve