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Friday, November 06, 2009 6:21 AM

Finding the Variables in Scope Within the WF Designer

In this thread , one of our forum customers asked the question: “how do I find all of the variables that are in scope for a given activity in the designer?” We do not have a public API to do this.  Internally we have a helper type called VariableHelper
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 10:29 PM

Activities Survey

So, we're getting close to .NET 3.5 getting out the door, and as always we're thinking about what comes next.  The activities team is looking how to make activities better going forward, and they are very interested in what you have to say, how you
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 1:38 AM

Implementing the N of M Pattern in WF

The second in my series of alternate execution patterns ( part 1 ) I recently worked with a customer who was implementing what I would call a "basic" human workflow system. It tracked approvals, rejections and managed things as they moved through a customizable
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 10:34 PM

Different Execution Patterns with WF (or, Going beyond Sequential and State Machine)

How do I do this? A lot of times people get stuck with the impression that there are only two workflow models available: sequential and state machine. True, out of the box these are the two that are built in, but only because there are is a set of common
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Friday, April 27, 2007 5:45 PM

Dynamically Generating an Operation Contract in Orcas using WF

This kicks off a set of posts where I'll be discussing some of the interesting features coming out in Orcas. I want to focus on this post on the Receive Activity, and a nice little feature in the designer that lets you create a contract on the fly, without
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007 6:05 PM

Mechanical Turk Activities

Mark Blomsma has put together some activities and an article which shows how to interact with Amazon's Mechanical Turk with WF activities. I've linked to the sample on here. Cool, cool, cool
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