There are a few things I feel like I should be able to do inside of a NativeActivity, but can’t - easily. Luckily, there is a way. #1 – Resuming bookmarks – where is my workflow Instance? You can resume a bookmark from within NativeActivity.Execute()...

[Update! There are some bugs with the attached code, see the sequel post for discussion of bug fixes.] My workmate Ramraj mentioned that a long way back (during earlier milestones of WF 4.0) something was invented for XAML called a property reference...

Let’s dig deeper into CacheMetadata (intro post) . We’ll do it with a toy problem – I want to wrap the Delay activity and customize it so that I can override the delay argument in code. I’m going to jump straight in and do it in NativeActivity ( without...

People who who start interesting things in rehosted designer applications or just VS, will often find that they will want to navigate through the workflow tree, looking for activities, arguments, variables, and so on. There are a few facts it can be helpful...

Here's a few random musings from a day of testing a few months ago. I was trying to test some workflow designer scenarios involving gac'ed custom assemblies. Q. Where is gacutil.exe? (Answer - It depends... it might not be anywhere at all) Q...

[Cache. Profit. I guess I’m going on 50.] After reading Basic Activity Scheduling and starting to write subclasses of NativeActivity, you may start running into a bunch of really weird or downright incomprehensible error messages. Some samples to whet...