can i change the standard look and feel of a sequential workflow back to the wf 3.5 look and feel? I miss the on DragOver automatically expanding arrows between the elements. If this is not possible, can i change the xaml of my activities to a similar to .net 3.5 wf visibility? Thanks! ...
I want to use the no-code authoring in the workflow. So no code behind. Let's say I have 2 custom activities with dependency properties. How can I bind a property from activity1 to activity2 ? ...
The workflow is being published as a wcf service, and I need to guarantee that workflows execute sequentially. Is there a way--in code or in the config--to guarantee the runtime doesn't launch two workflows concurrently? ...
Is it possible to pass the parameters of a ReceiveActivity to an Activity in a no-code behind? I don't want to create a property on the workflow. I did click on Bind property of the Activity, but it doesn't show the ReceivedActivity parameters. ...
Hi, We use tracking and persistence services of wf, and display current state of workflow on the asp.net page. Now in the process of localization of our application, we are able to localize all elements on the page except the activity names of workflow. These activity names are given while creating a workflow in VS 2008. How do i ach...
Is is possible to pass parameters to an XOML only workflow? I'm creating the workflow using XmlReader. Now is it possible to have parameters on an xoml only workflow? ...
It's possible to host a Sequential Workflow Library dll (NOT SHAREPOINT Sequential Workflow Library) on sharepoint? How can i do that? Thanks ...
Im learning Windows Workflow at the minute and am now looking at exception handling in state machines. Basically I can see that a FaultHandler can be used to catch a specific exception thrown in an activity. My question is do I need to specifically catch each type of exception or is there a way I can catch all exceptions with one Fault...
Hello, I'm trying to host the Workflow Designer in a WPF application. The WorkflowView control is hosted under a WindowsFormsHost control. I've managed to load workflows onto the designer which is successfully linked to a PropertyGrid, also hosted in another WindowsFormsHost. WorkflowView workflowView = rootDesigner.GetView(ViewTechnol...
This is the scenario: I have a State Machine Workflow using ManualWorkflowScheduler. Say there are 2 states: State1 and State2. State1 contains an EventDrivenActivity1 that has a SetStateActivity1 moving the workflow from State1 to State2. State1 also has a StateFinalizationActivity1. So my question is: When an event is raised and Set...
I am trying to implement an activity similar to InvokeWorkflow, which could dynamically load a XOML file, instantiate an activity tree from it, and use it as its only child. This would be similar to InvokeWorkflow except that the activities which are dynamically loaded are inlined into the main workflow (which is better from a monitorin...
Let's say I have a custom activity that has a dependency property of type GUID. I want in my custom designer to show like a combobox (or my own usercontrol) with possible values to select from (the values should comes from the database). Is this possible ? ...
I have an existing WCF service. Is it possible to add operation contract to the service interface and have the implementation in a workflow? Or I absolutly need a seperate service interface for my workflow? ...
I am trying to get my Windows State Machine workflow to communicate with end users. The general pattern I am trying to implement within a StateActivity is: StateInitializationActivity: Send a message to user requesting an answer to a question (e.g. "Do you approve this document?"), together with the context for... ...EventDrivenActivity...
Is it possible to bind to the child activity values of the current item of the collection? I know with code you can subscribe to ChildInitialized Event and init your child activity with the current InstanceData. But my system supports only markup workflow, is this possible ? ...
Hi all, I wish to create an workflow activity that has a dependancy property structure like this Setting Wait Period Days Hours Mins At the moment the code below will show Setting with the Wait Period as an Integer, but now need to expand it out to 3 sub child properties for Days, Hours and Mins. I understand i will have to cha...
I have a Person class with a name property. I have a custom activity that have this Person object as a dependency property. Now when I drop this custom activity into the workflow designer. I can see the Person in the property grid. From the designer I'd like to be able to specify the name of the person. Is this possible? Or the o...
I am trying to write a custom CompositeActivity using WF3.5. Something like a WhileActivity. The problem is when I want to execute the child activity again (it previously succeeded with a final call to ActivityExecutionContext.CloseActivity()) I get an InvalidOperationException, with this message: "Activity status must be 'Initialized' ...
Hi all, last week I changed the authentication in WSS from Windows to Forms. Now I have big problem with the workflows I created in SP Designer. When I start the workflow manually, it fires, but when it should to do it automaticly (when new item is created) it fails. Before they all worked fine. Had anyone the same problem after the s...
Hello Gurus, There doesn't seem to be many Windows Workflow Foundation gurus out there :( Here are couple of challenges that I face: How many workflow runtimes should there be running for in an Asp.Net MVC application? One per application, per session or per request? How frequently should the workflow runtime be started and stopped...