September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
5h 16m
English
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Chapter 5. Custom Activities
This Chapter will cover:
- Creating an activity by inheriting the root activity
- Creating a FileWriter activity
- Creating a SendEmail activity
- Creating an Input Message activity using Bookmark
- Creating an Asynchronous HTTP Get activity
- Creating a Composite activity
- Creating an Activity Designer for the SendEmail activity
- Creating an Activity Designer for the MySequence activity
Introduction
Activity is the essence of workflow; even the workflow itself is an Activity. WF4 provides some build-in activities that can be used directly in the workflow designer panel. But many times, we need to create our own activities—for example, an activity that can send e-mail to inform someone about finishing a task or any other important thing. ...