Browse by Tags

Recently, we worked with one of the customers whose designer launch was painfully slow. The project was a medium sized one and hence the performance degradation was particularly baffling. To figure out what's wrong, I did an Attach to Process(to debug) with another VS instance to the VS with the...

Before, we start talking about the WF3 design time performance, let me clarify some of the terminologies: 1. WF3 is the version of Workflow shipped as part of .NET Framework 3.0 and 3.5. Note that WF3 is also shipped as part of .NET Framework 4.0. Meaning, System.Workflow.* assemblies are shipped as...

This post is not exactly related to Designer, but something I am looking closely into nowadays. Recently a customer asked, how can he replace one of his long running activities with a different mock activity so that he can still unit test his workflow/composite activity logic. Another scenario would...

Couple of customers reported an issue with applying additional adornments on the designer discussed in this post . The issue was for out of box activities which didn't have a custom designer(were using the ActivityDesigner) itself, the adornments were not working. An example would be the Delay activity...

Continuing with the theme of questions we get from customers: How can we store some specific information into activity. One of the cases might be since we don't provide a unique identifier for an activity, the developer wants to store the unique ids per activity. This way he can differentiate between...

We continue to get requests from customers we didnt anticipate. And we continue to solve those problems – some way or the other. This one is that “some way”. I dont love it. But hey, if it helps the customer, it works. The customer wanted a way to hide the breadcrumb. Since we didnt have a specific API...

We have already seen how to have icons for the toolbox items. However, unfortunately, it is not the same way for the icons on the designer surface. Good news though, it is not that difficult. As we create our ActivityDesigner, we essentially need to add the following property: < sap:ActivityDesigner...