Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 Cookbook

Performing manual compensation by using Compensate activity

In a certain workflow execution phase, we may want to compensate an activity manually (rather than driven by an exception/error)—a Compensate activity will handle this job.

How to do it...

1. Create a Workflow Console Application project:

   Create a new Workflow Console Application and name it UseCompensateActivity .

2. Create workflow code:

   Add a new class file to the project and name it CompensationWorkflow.cs. Fill the file with the following code:

   using System; using System.Activities; using System.Activities.Statements; namespace UseCompensateActivity { class CompensationWorkflow { public Activity GetInstance() { Variable<CompensationToken> token=new Variable<CompensationToken>(); Activity workflow ...