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Hemant KumarPosted Oct 14, 2011, 3:03 AM
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Hemant KumarPosted Oct 14, 2011, 2:58 AM
rapid design and deployment of workflows. Office SharePoint Designer 2007 is specifically
designed to help create and customize web sites and workflows built with SharePoint
Products and Technologies. The Development process in SharePoint Designer is based on
declarative rules-based, code-free workflow editor.
SharePoint Designer (SPD) gives list administrators, business administrators, and designers
the ability to create workflows without writing any code. SPD exposes many of the
workflow activities that ship with SharePoint as "actions" that users can string together
into a sequential process. These actions are customized via sentences that describe the
action and bind data to action parameters.
However, businesses will oftentimes need more custom functionality than the actions
provided with SharePoint, requiring them to write custom code that can run on the
server. This guide describes how to write a custom code as an activity using the Visual
Studio Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation and expose it as an action in SPD.
"Activity" refers to the basic building block of functionality in a Windows Workflow
Foundation (WF) workflow.
In Office SharePoint Designer 2007, however, each activity appears as an action,
represented by a sentence that contains variables that the user can configure using
drop-down menus and lookup dialog boxes. Users can also select conditions, which are
configurable conditional clauses that direct the flow of the workflow.
As the user is selecting and configuring conditions and actions in the workflow interface,
Office SharePoint Designer 2007 generates the two files that actually represent the
workflow class:
The workflow markup file, which contains markup language that describes the activities
included in the workflow.
The workflow rules file contains the business logic of the workflow in declarative rules
form, rather than as code.
refer this links
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/sharepoint/CustomActivity.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/appfabric/archive/2011/08/14/how-to-create-a-custom-activity-designer-with-windows-workflow-foundation-wf4.aspx