Please review the following information before installing Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Extensions for Windows® Workflow Foundation.

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Software requirements

Supported operating systems:

·         Windows® XP, Service Pack 2 (SP2)

·         Windows® XP Professional x64 Edition

·         Windows Server™ 2003 Standard Edition, Service Pack 1 (SP1)

·         Windows Server™ 2003 Enterprise Edition, Service Pack 1 (SP1)

·         Windows Server™ 2003 Web Edition, Service Pack 1 (SP1)

·         Windows Server™ 2003 Standard x64 Edition

·         Windows Server™ 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition

·         Windows Server™ 2003 Datacenter x64 Edition

·         Windows Server™ 2003 R2 Standard Edition

·         Windows Server™ 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition

·         Windows Server™ 2003 R2 Datacenter Edition

·         Windows Server™ 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition

·         Windows Server™ 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition

·         Windows Server™ 2003 R2 Datacenter x64 Edition

·         Windows Vista™

Other software requirements:

·         Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.0 (or the Windows Workflow Foundation Runtime Components)

·         Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 (all editions except the Express Editions)

Optional:

·         Visual Web Developer (required for creating Visual Basic® workflow projects)

Minimum hardware requirements

Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation requires Visual Studio 2005, so please see the Visual Studio hardware requirements page for the minimum hardware requirements.

Release Notes

Cannot select overloaded method names on CallExternalMethodActivity

If you have two or more methods on a CallExternalMethodActivity activity with the same name but different parameters, you will be unable to select unique versions of the methods in the dropdown in the workflow designer. Any overloaded method you select will automatically default to the first method defined in your activity. Use unique method names to avoid this problem.

Workflow debugging with T-SQL not supported

You should not debug your workflow with both the workflow debugging and T-SQL debugging enabled or unexpected results could occur.

Full installation of Visual Studio 2005 is needed for remote debugging

You must have a full installation of Visual Studio 2005 on a remote machine to enable remote workflow debugging or you will receive an error when trying to attach to the remote process.

RuleCondition Editor crashes when nested type has same name as namespace

When a nested type has the same name as an enclosing namespace, the RuleCondition editor will crash while trying to discover all the type and namespace information.
To avoid this issue, rename the nested type to something other than the name used for the namespace.

Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation help is not visible in Visual Studio 2005 after installing SQL Server 2005

If SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server Books Online is installed on your machine, only SQL Server 2005 related topics are visible in the Contents tab of the Visual Studio 2005 documentation and only SQL Server 2005 related topics are displayed in the filter drop-down menu list.
To view the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation help, select the "(unfiltered)" filter option. If that is not present, install the MSDN® documentation, then select the "(unfiltered)" filter option.