workflow

Workflow Performance Tip - Custom CacheMetaData

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When writing custom activities for WF4, you can cut some performance costs by overriding the CacheMetadata method. By default, CacheMetadata will use reflection to determine what properties are available as in/out arguments and setup their binding. Reflection can have a significant cost, as I’ll show in this post.

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Reboot Azure Role Instance Workflow Activity

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A WF4 activity to reboot a role instance in an Azure cloud service deployment. Note that this method uses the Azure REST API and requires a management certificate to be installed on the machine executing the workflow in the local machine store.

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