XmlViking

Windows Workflow Foundation WWF

Wow,

What an amazing thing it is. I have created some basic examples the State Engine using
a webservice based workflow. Pretty dang cool.

I will post my examples in a while. Wish I could attach zip's or files so that you all could down the example.

Bitch:
The WWF visualizer is terrible! I mean really bad. It simply does not work. I cannot for the life of me get the conditional logic to work correctly in the visualizer in Visual Studio .NET 2005 Beta 2. As you all know the current release version of the Beta 1 WWF only works in Studio Beta 2 *grrrrrr*. The binding logic does work with the while or if else activities if you create a like in kind method and then bind on code. Howerver the RulesExpressions do not work at all.

I get a large heaping portion of COM related visualization errors as well when droping activities into the designer. *sigh* oh well...it is only Beta.

I love WWF and I think this is a huge leap forward for microsoft!

Bravo Bravo!

p.s. I will post my code examples in a while inline. :)

Eric

NAnt builds different then VS Environment?

Ok,

I’m having some weird stuff happening today. I'm creating a slew of hr-xml.org business domain objects by using the hr-xml.org xsd's and then parsing them...transforming them via CodeDom into real first class business objects. I'm decorating each class: custom interfaces, extra methods...ICompare etc. Long story short I found that I had to create custom derived types...children if you will from some of them more prevalent types like the EntityId type.

public class MyDerivedType: EntityId{
public MyDerivedType():base{ }
public MyDerivedType(Guid objectId):base(object){}
}

Real simple classes but they allow me to use the composite pattern so that I can enlist each type in a tree…associated with a parent class.

When I compile my classes all 1000+ of them using NAnt version .85 I don’t get any intellisense on my new derived types. However if I use Visual Studio 2003 or 2005 I get my intellisense. Weird…so for some reason my NAnt build is not implementing a type resolver or something. The manifest is not correctly being constructed or something.

Anyone else getting this?