Blogging about SharePoint

2/15/2009

On Friday, I was debugging a SharePoint workflow that I built in Visual Studio 2008. When I ran it, then stepped through the running workflow in the debugger, the designer view of the running XOML did NOT match the designer view of the workflow. In fact, the "live" XOML that was generated by the debugger was a visualization of an old build of my codebase. WTF? In particular, I had a parallel activity in my workflow, with 5 branches. In my current build, I had commented out branches 2-5, and renamed all the activities in branch 1. When my code ran, I could tell by the messages I was writing to the history list that the current version of my workflow was indeed running. But when I stepped into it, the "live" XOML designer view that the debugger created had all 5 branches of parallel activity enabled, and branch 1 had all the old names. How is that even possible?

Michael

Posted at 9:15 PM by Michael Blumenthal | Category: SharePoint Development | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (3)

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Re: Debug XOML Bogus - why?

The binary locked into memory is an old version. Go grab a latte while all your virtual machines reboot, delete all the temp files you can find and try again.

at 2/16/2009 9:23 AM

Re: Locked Binary

I'm not sure that an old binary is in memory. In the latest build, I have code that logs certain messages to the history list, and that code is running. However, the "live" XOML represents an earlier build. How can both happen at the same time?

Michael Blumenthal at 2/17/2009 8:19 AM

Same problem

I've had the same problem. You shouldn't have to restart your virtual machine. Just restart Visual Studio.

at 3/3/2009 6:19 AM

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