Resizing the rule set editor dialog

Question

We are hosting the rule set editor outside of Visual Studio and using it to edit some quite complex rules. The small fixed size of the condition and action text boxes is proving to be a useability issue and I'm wondering whether there is any way of overcoming this limitation? Will this limitation be there in WF4?

Cheers, Chris.

Answer 1

Hi guys, any ideas?

Chris.

Answer 2

Take a look at RuleConditionDialog: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.workflow.activities.rules.design.ruleconditiondialog.aspx .

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Rafael
www.nerdcore.com.br

Answer 3

Thanks for the response.

Unfortunately, this only provides functionality for condition editing. I  require the full functionality of the RuleSetDialog. Even the  RuleConditionDialog is not resizeble.

Seems like there is no way this can be acheived. Shame. We are going to have a hard time convincing our end users that modifying their own business rules is the way forward with this editor.

Answer 4

I think you're stuck. Unfortunately, the built-in editor has a lot of complex expression-parsing functionality that would really be a pain for you to duplicate if you tried to write your own. I never got my hands on the CTP of WF 4 from the PDC last year, but since the workflow designer is an all-new WPF-based one, I'm sure the rule dialogs will have been rewritten as well. The rumors seem to indicate that the .NET 4 beta is coming up fairly soon, so you could evaluate it then...

Answer 5

VS 2010 Beta1 is available for download now. You can download it and try WF 4.0 out.

Here are the links:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/securedownloads/default.aspx?pv=18%3a370
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=255fc5f1-15af-4fe7-be4d-263a2621144b&displaylang=en

Thanks

Yuan Hu

Answer 6

I have the same problem.  Issues like this make adopting new technology infuriating.  Especially when the issues are chronic.  Just when I was convinced I should migrate from DROOLs I run into things like this.  Oh, and the single object manipulation limitation.  frustrating...