Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 Cookbook

Creating an Activity Designer for the SendEmail activity

An Activity Designer is actually a surface of an activity in the workflow designer. We have already created a SendEmail to send an e-mail. In this task, we are going to create a designer (activity surface) for it. The final appearance will be like this:

Now,let's create it from scratch.

How to do it...

1. Create an Activity Designer:

   As Activity Designer is built upon WPF, we need to add references to PresentationCore, PresentationFramework, and WindowsBase. Add an Activity Designer item to the ActivityLibrary project and name it SendEmailActivityDesigner.xaml.

   Now, open the code sample for this ...