Windows Workflow Delay problem

Question

Hi all. I'm quite new to Workflow and have a question.

I have a While Loop in my designer which checks a conditon.

The while loop works fine and the condtion checking works fine.

What I'm trying to do, is to set a delay so that the while loop only checks the condition every x seconds/minutes. I've tried the delay control inside the while loop, but for some reason, the delay Activity does not pass control back to the while loop to check the condition again. The only property I've set in the Delay activity is : TimeoutDuration = 00:00:10 (10 seconds right?).

Any advice?

Tx

Answer 1

If you use the VS designer (drag and drop), you will be able to add a Delay Activity into your workflow. The Delay Activity requires a Duration value which is basically a TimeSpan. For example, if you wanted to have a 5-sec delay you would need to assign Duation the following TimeSpan object:

               New TimeSpan(0, 0, 5); //0 hours, 0 minutes, 5 seconds

Hope this helps!