Obtaining WorkflowRuntime object instance from within StateMachineWorkflowActivity

Question

How can I obtaine WorkflowRuntime object instance from within
StateMachineWorkflowActivity. This is needded in order to register my own
Local Services with ExternalDataExchangeService object.

Thank you

Answer 1

To the best of my knowledge, you can't.  If you're looking to take things to that level, you need to understand that SharePoint is largely a black-box wf host.  You might want to consider creating a Workflow Foundation workflow and launching it from an event handler.  You get a lot more flexibility that way, but lose all of the default SP integration.  It might also be a lot of work, depending on what you're looking to do.

 

Disclaimer: I've never tried this, it's been on the list of things to do for a while, but I see no reason why it wouldn't work.