Also, custom activities can be developed for additional functionality. Activities can be assembled visually into workflows relying on the workflow designer, which is a design surface that runs within Visual Studio. The designer can also be hosted in other apps. Encapsulating programming functionality into the activities enables the developer to create more manageable apps. Each component of execution can be developed as a common language runtime object whose execution will be managed by the workflow runtime.
According to Microsoft itself, a workflow is a set of elemental units named activities that are saved as a model that describes a real-world process. Workflows provide a way of describing the order of execution and dependent relationship between pieces of long- or short-running work.
This work passes through the model from start to finish, and activities might be executed by people or by system functions. NET applications client's requirements.
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NET 4. As it has been mentioned in the introduction to this WF tutorial series everything in Workflow is an activity. Activities are functional units of a Workflow. They can perform a simple task like displaying massage to the user or more complicated tasks made from combination of different other activities. We are going to use the WriteLine Activity to simply display a message. WriteLine activity is used to display a string in a console the same way as Console.
WriteLine method. Before build the application we need to modify the Program. Take note that we have changed the Workflow1 initializer class to HelloLiza. For every new Workflow, we are actually creating a class. On the 5 th line we are creating an Activity object based on our Workflow. WorkflowInwoker is a simple class which its Invoke method is used to invoke a Workflow.
Why I said simple class because System. Acitivities provides different methods to invoke a workflow. WorkflowInvoker is useful for synchronous execution of workflows.
We are going to extend our example and ask the user for her name and to greets her using her name and showing her the current time. In the second topic, these activities are assembled along with built-in workflow activities into a flowchart workflow.
In the third topic, the host application is configured to run the workflow, and in the final topic persistence is introduced. Each step in this process depends on the previous steps, so we recommend that you complete them in order.
How to: Create a Workflow Describes how to create flowchart, sequential, and state machine workflows by using built-in activities and the custom activities from the preceding tutorial.
How to: Run a Workflow Describes how to invoke a workflow from a host environment, pass data into and out of a workflow, and how to resume bookmarks.
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