Determining Workflow Instance Status
Interestingly, if you look at the methods and properties of both the workflow runtime object and the workflow instance object, you don’t find a status property. How do you know if there is a workflow executing, and if there is one, where is that workflow in its process? Is it idled? Is it executing? How do we know?
I’m jumping ahead a little, but this is the most logical place to discuss workflow status determination. As it happens, the workflow definition of a given workflow instance provides you with the execution status. The base class Activity exposes an ExecutionStatus property that sports a member of the ActivityExecutionStatus enumeration. I’ve listed the ActivityExecutionStatus values with their meaning ...
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