Calling WPF windows from WWF workflow

I struggled for a long while to get my WPF forms to work from a workflow activity. This article was very helpful in accomplishing it.

Composite Activities

I created a new composite activity that allows the execution of WPF windows from the workflow. Articles to fast track this development is available at

• MSDN and
• Commonality
  

Convert ExportedInstance to a class

While busy traversing my domain model I needed some way of converting my ExportedInstance to the actual class I am interrested in.

This article helped in that, but basically all I needed was the following line of code:

EntityPlaceholder entityPlaceholder =
dis.ResolveExportedInstanceInDocument(dslNamespace, MELString, true) as
EntityPlaceholder;

Why cheap programmers are expensive

I found this article and I can only hope that the industry wakes up very soon. Trying to develop software with cheap resources are really very expensive at the end of the day.