Activity.Name Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Workflow.ComponentModel

Assembly:

System.Workflow.ComponentModel.dll

Gets or sets the name of this instance. This name must conform to the variable naming convention of the programming language that is being used in the Workflow project.

C#

[System.ComponentModel.Browsable(true)]
public string Name { get; set; }

Property Value

String

The name of this instance.

Attributes

BrowsableAttribute

Examples

The following code shows how to create activities and add them as children to a composite activity and set the value for Name.

This code example is part of the Throw SDK sample and is from the ThrowWorkFlow.cs file. For more information, see Throw Sample.

C#

this.CanModifyActivities = true;
System.Workflow.ComponentModel.ActivityBind activitybind1 = new System.Workflow.ComponentModel.ActivityBind();
this.throwActivity1 = new System.Workflow.ComponentModel.ThrowActivity();
activitybind1.Name = "ThrowWorkflow";
activitybind1.Path = "ThrownException";
//
// throwActivity1
//
this.throwActivity1.Name = "throwActivity1";
this.throwActivity1.SetBinding(System.Workflow.ComponentModel.ThrowActivity.FaultProperty, ((System.Workflow.ComponentModel.ActivityBind)(activitybind1)));
//
// ThrowWorkflow
//
this.Activities.Add(this.throwActivity1);
this.Name = "ThrowWorkflow";
this.CanModifyActivities = false;

Remarks

Default value for this is the empty string.

This property is a meta property, which means it cannot be changed at runtime. Meta properties do not change after a property instance is created at runtime, so the property must be set to a literal value at design time.

Applies to