Rehosting workflow designer in web

Question

I know WF designer has re-hosting capability. Since it's WPF-based, I thought it might be rehostable in web, using silverlight.

Does anyone have any experiece regarding this? Or, does anyone know an easy and powerful web-based workflow designer solution for WF?

Answer 1

The WF designer can be hosted in the browser, just not with silverlight but as a wpfbrowser application. See details here

This requires the .net framework on the client.. but it does work.

Answer 2

When Microsoft introduce WF 4 at PDC2008, I specifically asked the question about rehosting in Silverlight and the answer was "No, it isn't something we are currently supporting but it seems there is some demand so we are conisdering it".

A little more than 2 years later and they aren't still supporting it so I guess it will be a while before we see that happening out of the box from MSFT

Answer 3

I'm working in the "WF area" too: the designer can't be rehosted in a web page. Keep in mind that WPF is quite different from Silverlight.

Not really answering you question, but... have a look at SnapFlow.

If you find something useful don't forget to write a short note here. ;-)