Orchestration Debug with System.Diagnostics.Debug and Parallel shapes in orchestration

Orchestration Debug with System.Diagnostics.Debug and Parallel shapes in orchestration

In this post I want to show alternate method for Debug and demonstrate how Parallel shape

works in orchestration.

1. Create new orchestration

2. Create first receive port

3. Insert Parallel Actions shape

4. Add to shape 2 branches

5. Add 8 Expressions

So your orchestration should look like

6. edit each expression shape

Expression_1 :

System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Exp1");

Expression_2 :

System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Exp2");

Expression_3 :

System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Exp3");

Expression_4 :

System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Exp4");

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Expression_8 :

System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Exp8");

Download DebugView Utility from

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896647.aspx

great tool by Mark Russinovich

Create a simple xml which will start orchestration

Start debug view

Enable Capture Global Win32, Enable Verbose Kernel Output

Start orchestration

and check for output !

Same trick you can use in your Window applications, Windows services and WPF applications.