Newbie: Transistion lines not displayed in Designer & Layout

JulesW wrote:

Hello, I have started playing about with State Machine workflows, starting with the BasiStateMachine sample. But I cannot work out how to display the Transisiton lines between the states. There are SetState between StartState,state1 and state2, and the sample works OK. Can anyone advise what button I need to press to get these Transistions lines didplayed between the states. The diagram is not very helpful without them. I have looked around the View menu and the Desgner buttons only support print Preview, Zoom and Pan operations. On another point, how do I drag and drop the states around on the designer work surface for a better layout. Dragging a state about, sems to just flip the vertical display order, rather than leave the displayed state where I left it on the diagram surface. Thanks Jules

The free-form state machine designer that you see in our beta1 bits disabled by default. You need to change a registry key to enable the free-form designer. The registry key is located at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Workflow Foundation

There should be a key named "EnableFreeForm". Create a new DWORD and set the value to 1.

DennisPilarinos at 2007-9-9 >