Advanced Workflow: Enabling Tricky Scenarios

Here are a few tips and tricks for using the ReplicatorActivity successfully. It is a powerful activity which, when approached from the correct point of view, can be relatively easy to use. Definitions seed value - a value added to either of the...

QUESTION: Does a ParallelActivity start one thread for each branch? How many threads will it use for processing? ANSWER: The short answers are "no" and "1". If you've heard it before, then these answers make sense. If not, then read on for an explanation...

QUESTION: Can I return ActivityExecutionStatus.Faulting from a signal method to "fault" the activity? ANSWER: As a general rule only the current status and Closed are valid return values from any of the signal methods. Therefore: Execute () – Return...

QUESTION: How do I manage resources (like sockets) which are held by an activity? ANSWER: System. Workflow.ComponentModel.Activity has several overridable methods defined, but there is a newer subset of these methods which I like to refer to as "Lifetime...

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The purpose of this blog is to provide public answers to the Windows Workflow Foundation questions that I come across every now and again at work. These questions usually target a specific scenario but can be easily abstracted to a more general inquiry...