I’ve installed the Visio 2010 Professional and tried to design SharePoint 2010 workflow. Surprisingly, i did not get the option to design SharePoint 2010 workflow.
I’ve learnt that Microsoft Visio Professional 2010 does not support designing SharePoint 2010 workflows. The solution is to upgrade to Visio Premium 2010 to get the SharePoint Workflow 2010 templates.
For the past few days i’m exploring more into the Worklow Development with SharePoint 2010. I’ve developed applications using Windows Workflow Foundation in the past. Based on that i tried to compare whether the SharePoint workflow framework delivers all the capabilities offered by Windows Workflow foundation. I’ve learnt that the following activities are not supported .
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Activity |
Description |
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InvokeWebService |
Invokes a web service from workflow |
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InvokeWorkflow |
Invokes another workflow |
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Policy |
Stores the definition and execution logic of a RuleSet |
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Receive Activity |
Exposes workflow as WCF service |
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WebServiceInput |
Used for exposing workflow as web service |
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WebServiceOutput |
Used for exposing worklow as web service |
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WebServiceFault |
Sends a fault from workflow to web service |
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Send Activity |
Connects to WCF end point |
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Suspend |
Suspends the execution fo Workflow |
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Throw |
Raises exception in workflow |
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SynchronizationScope |
Synchronizes the execution |
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TransactionScope |
Groups activities inot a transaction scope |
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Compensate |
Undo or componesate work that was previously done |
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CompensatableTransaction |
Uses compensation logc |
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CompensatbleSequence |
Same purpose as compensate activity |
Even though these activities get listed in Visual Studio Toolbox, they are not suppored in SharePoint Workflows
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