Does anyone know of a great way to create a step-by-step online troubleshooting tool? My company will need to develop several such tools, customized for several clients. Ultimately, we'd like an easy way to maintain a series of questions, with answer-dependent navigation. We'll need to be able to support all of the standard types of q...
I have a HandleExternalEvent activity inside a workflow. But when event is raised, I want my HandleEventActivity to handle it in that way, to stay in the idle state, and not to proceed. How this can be solved? Thanks! ...
My company is in need of a task management system to handle scenarios as simple as "Purchase a computer for X" to "Relocate a person to another country". The simple scenarios are a single tasks handled by a single person, whereas bigger tasks can be broken down into multiple sub tasks delegated to multiple people during the workflow. Add...
I have a windows workflow host with Persistence and Tracking services enabled. I would like to show my persisted/idling workflow instance as a Diagram (like in the visual studio workflow designer). Is there an easy way to do this? Note that I would like to display this diagram in an Admin-like Web Interface that system administrators ca...
Is it a good idea use WF for all application sizes? From more simple to more complex applications, considering that all applications follow a workflow, even in most of cases the workflow be implicit? ...
I'm trying to make use of a sequential workflow console application being called from a windows forms app. When the project runs and I click on the button that would create and start the workflow I get I get SecurityException was unhandled That assembly does not allow partially trusted callers. I'm calling classes that I call in my .ne...
If I have an ASP.NET app hosting a worflow where a trouble ticket passes through a fairly standard flow....at one point there needs to be an escalation occurring if a ticket has not been looked at or resolved in 6 months. Now lets say the 6 months have passed, but the IIS machine has been rebooted last month and not used. Will the work...
I've been looking for hours. Its possible it doesn't exist and I should just get over it.... But I have a state machine I'm designing and it isn't humanly possible to layout the shapes in some sort of clear manner. Not that a program could do better but it would be a good starting point. Does anyone know of a automated shape layout util...
So I've been using the Windows Workflow default SQL persistence service that handles everything on its own with no fuss. Now, one of the environments I deploy to does not have direct access to the database; it pushes stored procedure calls through a web service over a proxy for added security. This of course does not please the SQL persi...
I've been doing some tutorials, and a lot of reading on Windows Workflow recently, and was just wondering if it would be practical to use it in an eCommerce website - at the check out for example...? Customer Checks basket customer enters delivery information customer checks order customer pays done or am i barking up the wrong tree? ...
Hi all, I'm looking for visualization/simulation tools for Windows Workflow Foundation, which can show how certain data moves down the workflow and gets manipulated until the end result is reached. This is a bit similar to some IBM Rational modeling tools for Websphere. Can someone recommend a product (preferably free, but commercial p...
Pre-warning: There are some other questions similar to this but don't quite answer the question (these include: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19314/alternatives-to-windows-workflow-foundation, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/932924/can-anyone-recommend-a-net-open-source-alternative-to-windows-workflow) We are developing a system...
I added the following attribute to the assemblyinfo.cs file in the activities project: using System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Serialization; [assembly:XmlnsDefinition("http://Myproject/MyActivitiesLib", "MyActivitiesLib")] also in my workflow runtime initilize methold, I loaded assemblyreference as following: using (WorkflowRuntime run...
Hi, I want to design a solution using WF, where an end user can design workflows based on their business needs. I want to make the solution as much as flexible where the user does not need to do any code. here are some thoughts - I need to create Custom Activities based on business process. The end user will use a designer(VS 2008) t...
1) What is the difference between Code and Callexternalmethod? 2) With constructs such as delay, this can be coded in a method. What benefit is there in doing it in the workflow instead of the code? 3) I am trying to write a workflow-driven CMS. A page will be published depending on the state (selected value) of an enumeration. To do t...
I have a Windows Workflow Foundation (3.0) state machine in which I need certain states to change state based on the age of the state. For example, when the work flow enters state X the user needs to action it within 5 days. If this has not been done, the work flow needs to transition into state Y. So what I think I want is a state wi...
i am developing an web application using window workflow foundation. I will send an email to others by using this application. In that for every recipient an workflow instance will be created. The recipient can login my web application using the link provided in that email. When the login in my application I should change the workflow s...
Hello All- I am pretty new with WF. I have this workflow. Its pretty simple, i believe. My WF consists of a replicator activity, sequential activity, CallExternalMethod Activity, and HandleExternalMethod Activity. I've also implemented correlation on my interface class. I've also added these services to my WF persistence, tracking,...
Hi, Currently we have thousands of Microsoft Word files, Excel files, PDF's, images etc stored in folders/sub folders. These are generated by an application on a regular basis and can be accessed at any time within that application. As we look to upgrade we are now looking into storing all these documents within SQL Server 2005 instead....
An ActivityExecutionContext has three ways of creating bookmarks: CreateBookmark, CreateNamedBookmark and CreateProtocolBookmark. Which one is supposed to be used for what kind of async operation? What is the difference between a named and a protocol bookmark? Which of the two does CreateBookmark() return and why the special case? It a...