Chapter 8. Custom Workflow Designer

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Implementing designer layout
  • Implementing Toolbox, Workflow Designer, and Property Inspector views
  • Implementing New Workflow and Load Workflow events
  • Implementing Save and Save As events
  • Implementing XAML Workflow Tab and Run events
  • Implementing visual tracking

Introduction

Sometimes, workflow users are non-developers who may not have installed Visual Studio 2010. These users need the ability to create and/or modify workflow definitions with designer support for things such as dragging and dropping of activities. WF4 provides a set of WPF classes that we can reference and use to create our own custom workflow designer, allowing for creating of rich administration tools for our workflow ...

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