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there was an application called 'WorkflowMonitor' that was included with the samples kit for workflow 3 which gave you a visual playback through previously run workflows.

The tracking records that app works against appear to be a different shape to those in workflow 4, is there a similar viewer that anyone knows of that can give me an insight into previously run workflows in workflow 4?

I am really just looking for the best way to interpret the data, the Workflow Monitor would have been perfect, but appears to be incompatible now.

Thanks,

Dave.

Elenor Platz
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I know near to nothing about WF3 but, based on your request, you might want to start by downloading this WCF/WF Examples package.

Take a look at WF\Application\VisualWorkflowTracking solution to see a visual tracking system in action.

See also the concept of Workflow Tracking Participants on WF4, on these links:

A small introduction from the first link:

Windows Workflow tracking is a .NET Framework version 4 feature designed to provide visibility into workflow execution. It provides a tracking infrastructure to track the execution of a workflow instance. The WF tracking infrastructure transparently instruments a workflow to emit records reflecting key events during the execution. This functionality is available by default for any .NET Framework 4 workflow.

The examples package contains a bunch of example code about tracking on WF_WCF_Samples\WF\Basic\Tracking folder.

Joao
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@Jota's answer is a good one, you should look at those examples. The visual tracking example is kind of a mess though. A few of us of done some different variations that separate the running of the workflow from the viewing of the tracking data.

http://geekswithblogs.net/JoshReuben/archive/2011/06/07/workflow-4.0.1-statemachine—distributed-tracking-visualization.aspx

https://github.com/PeteGoo/Workflow-Service-Tracking-Viewer

and my own version with signalR but based on the visual tracking sample http://panmanphil.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/slides-and-sample-from-the-chippewa-valley-code-camp/

Looks like you have some reading on your hands.

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