Nearly every example of how to create a custom workflow activity demonstrates the use of the DependencyProperty. There’s not much new there. However, few of the examples will show you how to add events to your custom activities. It’s not that difficult really, they’re still dependency properties with a bit of a spin. For instance, if you want to implement a MethodInvoking event you can use the following code:
public static DependencyProperty MethodInvokingEvent =
DependencyProperty.Register(“MethodInvoking”, typeof(EventHandler), typeof(NetSendEmailActivity));
public event EventHandler MethodInvoking
{
add { base.AddHandler(MethodInvokingEvent, value); }
remove { base.RemoveHandler(MethodInvokingEvent, value); }
}
This should look really similar to the structure of a regular DependencyProperty – because it is. Other than the non-static property and the name of the Dependency property, everything is the same.
For a full fledged example you can look at “Send E-mail Activity Sample” in MSDN. (This isn’t a complete replacement for the SharePoint SendEmailActivity to resolve the issues mentioned in my previous post, but it’s not a bad start.)
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