Workflow Designer & c# & visual studio

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27 Juni 2012 19:50

@Latitude, 

Is there any reason why the workflow design is based around vb.net as opposed to c#?  Can it support c# as input expressions?

If one wanted to go down the path of using visual studio for workflow development, is there any constraints going down this path & is there any guidance to this? Is there any benefits (particularly around debugging?)

Brad

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  Ryan Cooney

  27 Juni 2012 22:03

  Hi Brad,

  VB.NET was a choice Microsoft made. The rehosted workflow design surface only supports VB. The .NET Framework 4.5 (which hasn't been formally released yet) has support for C#. We will investigate this as we get closer to its final release. No promises, but we'd like to see C# supported too.

  You are certainly able to author your workflows in Visual Studio. It can use all the same activities. Visual Studio has the advantage of offering you better code completion and allows debugging into activities. It cannot however deal with external/client activities. Visual Studio doesn't know that you are really running your workflow as a RESTful application where the client application is responsible for some of the processing. When you try to debug through an external activity Visual Studio will just stop.

  --Ryan

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  Permanently deleted user

  27 Juni 2012 22:43

  Ryan, 

   

  I thought this might be the case - thanks for the heads up.

   

  Brad

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