Using Custom Activity Designers and Templates

This section contains topics describing how to create custom activity designers and custom activity templates.

In This Section

How to: Create a Custom Activity Designer
Describes how create a customized activity designer when the designers provided by the workflow are not appropriate to the design tasks.

How to: Create a Custom Activity Template
Describes how to use custom activity templates to preconfigure activities so that users do not have to create each activity individually and configure their properties and other settings manually.

Using the ModelItem Editing Context
Describes how to use the features of the ModelItem editing context to allow the designer to interact with the host.

Binding a custom activity property to a designer control
Describes how to bind a listview control to an activity property in the designer.

Reference

ActivityDesigner

ExpressionTextBox

ActivityAction

IActivityTemplateFactory

ModelTreeManager

Rehosting the Workflow Designer

External Resources

Custom Activities