Messaging Activity Designers

Article
03/02/2012

Messaging activity designers are used to create and configure messaging activities that send and receive Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) messages from within a Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) application. The .NET Framework version 4 introduces five messaging activities and the Windows Workflow Designer provides two new template designers that enable you to manage messaging within a workflow. The topics contained in this section and listed in the following table provide guidance on how to use the Workflow Designer activity and template designers.

In This Section

Message Activity	Description
CorrelationScope Activity Designer	Creates and configures a CorrelationScope activity that provides implicit management of child messaging activities with a CorrelationHandle object.
InitializeCorrelation Activity Designer	Creates and configures an InitializeCorrelation activity that is used to initialize correlation without sending or receiving a message.
Receive Activity Designer	Creates and configures a Receive activity that receives a message from a service.
ReceiveAndSendReply Template Designer	Creates a pre-configured pair of Send and ReceiveReply activities within a Sequence activity.
Send Activity Designer	Creates and configures a Send activity that sends a message to a service.
SendAndReceiveReply Template Designer	Creates a pre-configured pair of Receive and SendReply activities within a Sequence activity.
TransactedReceiveScope Activity Designer	Creates and configures a TransactedReceiveScope activity which enables the flow of transactions into a workflow.