Building Microsoft Workflow Manager Activities

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In order to Publish Microsoft Workflow Manager Activities into Microsoft Workflow Manager Server you need to compile these Activities before you process to publishing Operation , you can follow next steps to complete this Operation.

  1. Install Workflow Manager Visual Studio Tools , Workflow Manager Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio 2012 installation

  2. Open Visual Studio and Create new Project  http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3MBBJqH82ck/Vix39gK6LFI/AAAAAAAAJVw/4ABqzRFZTRI/s320/NewProject.PNG

  3. Once you created new project Right Click Project Node in Solution Explorer and the click Unload to edit project File. http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-AqmAPsf0DtA/Vix44oegLJI/AAAAAAAAJV4/QUEQrMsYRCQ/s320/UnLoad.PNG

  4. Right Click Project Node again and Click Edit Menu Item http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M00wkBaNS1s/Vix5d1FRkiI/AAAAAAAAJWM/W3jaL8BoJcg/s1600/EditProject.PNG

  5. Visual Studio will Open csproj xml file for you to edit scroll down to  Import Node and then add new Import node existing Node

    1.<Import Project="$(MSBuildToolsPath)\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" />
2.<Import Project="C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\Workflow Manager\1.0\Microsoft.WorkflowServiceBuildExtensions.targets" />

  6. Save csproj File and reload the project .

  7. Build Project 

  8. When you open Output folder of your Project you will find the TranslatedWorkflows folder contains your compiled activities.