In this recipe, we will see how to use some of the new features of the workflow designer.
Enhanced designer features that we will be using include search, auto surround, panning, outline, and annotations.
In order to use this recipe, you should have Visual Studio 2012 installed. You need a project to work with, such as the result of our previous recipe.
We will explore some of the new WF designer features with the following steps:
First open Visual Studio 2012 and then open a WF 4.5 project. Our previous project will do perfectly.
Navigate from the menu to View | Other windows | Document Outline (or press Ctrl + Alt + T). The outline allows us to navigate with a simple click through the hierarchy of our workflow elements; this gives us a synchronized view of our workflow editor and our document outline, as we can see in the following screenshot:
Press Ctrl + F to open the quick find Find and Replace dialog. Type
Validate
and click...