October, 2009

In this post I published an overview of the designer architecture.  I’ll copy the picture and the description of what I want to talk about today. There are a few key components here Source In VS, this is xaml, but this represents the durable storage of the “thing” we are editing Instance This is the in memory representation of the item being edited.  In vs2010 for the WF designer, this is a hierarchy of System.Activities instances (an object tree) Model Item Tree This serves as an intermediary...

I wanted to put a quick note up as the team is starting to blog a little more frequently and putting some interesting content out there.  A few places to check out to hear from the folks on the team Endpoint – This is the general WF team blog, and has had some good posts Going to PDC? Want to Meet the Team? Client Profile in .NET 4 WF4 Changes between Beta1 and Beta2 Cathy Dumas – Cathy is the PM on my team focused on the expression editing experience and the designer UX VB Expressions Example...

Build error: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: path1. Now that’s a cryptic title, right? First of all; a big thanks to Jason Barile/MSFT that set me in contact with Aaron Hallberg that in turned found a workaround for the bug I’m about to describe. Second; The bug is fixed in MSFTs trunk version of [...] Blog Post by: larsw