WF 4.5

Bite Size Bits: Panning in WF 4.5

Rick G. Garibay — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:51:59 GMT

Workflows can get big pretty quickly.

VS 2010 required scrolling vertically and horizontally to navigate larger, more complex workflows.

VS 2011 brings panning which is a much more natural way to navigate.

2010: No Pan

2011: Pan, yay.

Learn more about the designer improvements in WF 4.5 here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh305677(VS.110).aspx

Bite Size Bits: WF 4.5 Annotations

Rick G. Garibay — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:41:55 GMT

Workflows are visually descriptive by their nature, but sometimes it is helpful to add a note that further describes, or annotates an activity as a step in a process, or serve as a way to add a note during a code/design review, for example.

With annotations, you simply right click an activity and select Annotation. Both hidden and pinned modes are supported.

Here is an example of an annotation that is pinned. When you click on the post-it note looking icon in the upper right hand corner of the activity (hidden mode), the annotation will appear:

If you pin the annotation, it will be in-lined within the activity canvas itself:

Learn more about the designer improvements in WF 4.5 here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh305677(VS.110).aspx

Bite Size Bits: WF 4.5 C# Expressions

Rick G. Garibay — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:31:37 GMT

Nothing against VB, but many (read most) .NET developers love their curly braces and semicolons.

WF 4.5 now supports C# expressions giving you the choice to keep your VB projects or go with C#, all the way, baby!

Learn more about the designer improvements in WF 4.5 here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh305677(VS.110).aspx