Writing K2 Wizard Projects in VS2008
Recently I have found a requirement to build a new Wizard
for a client, in order to allow business analysts to build processes whilst
also meeting the specific technical requirements of the project.
One of the drawbacks of building a custom wizard is that in
VS2005 the wpf designer was only ever released as a CTP, making the development
experience much trickier than it needs to be. A much better experience would be
had if we could build the wizard project in VS2008, but blackpearl does not yet
support 2008, so we’re a bit stuck.
Actually no - If we create a new Wizard Project in VS2005,
it will generate 2 projects, both of which are of type .csproj. Therefore we
can upgrade them into VS2008 without any detrimental side effects.....in
theory!
In order to test the theory I downloaded the GotoActivity
wizard project from blackmarket, since I do not yet have a working wizard of my
own!
Opening VS2008 and opening the GotoActivity solution will
activate the upgrade wizard.
I do not require a backup since I have the Zipped up source
anyway
Finish will perform the upgrade
Upgrade completes without any errors, so good so far.... checking the project properties, we can see that the projects still target the .Net 3.0 framework.
Run the installer, this will also compile the source code
You can now close VS2008, and open any K2 workflow project, once opened simply reset the toolbox, and you will then see the wizard appear.
NOTE: I have not yet tested this using a newly created Wizard Project, although that is my intention.