Rehosting the Workflow Designer

The Windows Workflow Designer can be rehosted in environments outside of Visual Studio 2012 for the purposes of creating, modifying, and monitoring workflows.

The WorkflowDesigner type is a wrapper of the canvas, property grid, and other elements, and exposes a basic programming model to handle the majority of designer rehosting scenarios. Hosting the WorkflowDesigner inside a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) application is a common rehosting scenario for Workflow Designer.

In This Section

Task 1: Create a New Windows Presentation Foundation Application

Task 2: Host the Workflow Designer

Task 3: Create the Toolbox and PropertyGrid Panes

Support for New Workflow Foundation 4.5 Features in the Rehosted Workflow Designer

See also

• Customizing the Workflow Design Experience