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Dear Customers,

   We have released Aspose.Workflow 1.2.2.0, it contains:

Feature Added:

•  Add PackageAdmin.DoesPackageExists method
• Add ITaskHistory.ReservedBy
• Add LastTaskId LastTaskPerformer ProcessVariables to the IRuntimeArgs
• Add customized IAssignmentsManager to let user customize the assignments, Add a property in the configuration file to let the Aspose.Workflow using customized AssignmentManager.

          AssignmentsManager.Implementation.Type= Customer.CustomizedAssignmentManager

         the Customer.CustomeizedAssignmentManager must implements Aspose.Workflow.Engine.IAssignmentsManager interface

• Access DataField’s Extended Attributes IProcess.GetVariableExtendedAttributes
• Add PackageId PackageVersion ProcessId To ITaskHistory
• Add DoesProcessInstanceExist to IInstanceAdmin
  

Bug Fixed:

• When using QueryServices under MS Access database, the query

Dear customers,

   We have released Aspose.Workflow 1.2.1.0, It contains

Feature added:

• Designer can access the external reference package now.
• Recent file list add to Designer
• New APIs to update the variables directly IProcessInstance.UpdateVariable, IProcessInstance.UpdateVarabiles.
• New API to test if a process instance is a subflow, IProcessInstance.IsSubflow
• New API IWorklist2.CompleteTaskEx2 with a IRuntimeCallback parameter to let user can decide performer and next activity at runtime.
• Add an API to return package/Process level variables
    IPackage.GetAllVariableIdNameMap IProcess.GetAllVariableIdNameMap
• Add an API to return latest

Dear Customers,

   We have released the Aspose.Workflow 1.2.0.0, it contains

Feature Added:

• PackageAdmin/InstanceAdmin now can work on different package versions. Please refer to the APIs of IPackageAdmin and IInstanceAdmin
• User now can configure the Aspose.Workflow database table name, please refer to the wiki page. http://www.aspose.com/Wiki/default.aspx/Aspose.Workflow/CustomizedDatabaseTableNameQA.html
• Table struct change of Application Mapping and Participant mapping, to reflect on the new feature of Package version

Changes made:

• GetProcessInstanceList didn’t accept processId and PackageId with null. not it fixed, when both parameter is null

Dear Customers,

   We have released the Aspose.Workflow 1.1.7.0, it contains:

• Prepare statement does not work when using under .NET 2.0 SDK, now it fixed
• the participant’s processId always return packageId, now it fixed.
• Small display bugs fixed in designer.

Please goto http://www.aspose.com/Downloads/Aspose.Workflow/Default.aspx to get the new hotfix

Regards,

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Dear Customers,
    We have released Aspose.Workflow 1.1.6.0, it contains:

1. Several small bugs are fixed in designer.
2. Added a new feature called “DynamicJoin”, it must use with “DynamicFork” feature at the same time.
    when add the “AssignmentType.DynamicJoin” extended attribute to an activity, the value of the extened attribute will change the behavior of how to finish current activity and go to next activity. The value of “AssignmentType.DynamicJoin” can be one of belows:
   • “AND”: only when all “DynamicFork” tasks finished, the current activity

Dear Customers,
 We have released the Aspose.Workflow 1.1.5.0, it contains

1) It takes too long of calling EngineManager.Configure(), now it fixed
2) If CompleTaskEx2 fail, will return duplicated new creating TaskId in next call, not it fixed.
3) Add a set of scripts on sqlserver to create all object under the owner [dbo], requested by customer.

Please goto http://www.aspose.com/Downloads/Aspose.Workflow/Default.aspx to get the newest version.

Regards,
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Dear Customers

   We have decided to build Aspose.Workflow next major release (CodeName: Aspose.Workflow.WWF) based on Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation and we will still maintain the old Aspose.Workflow by customer request.
The first release of Aspose.Workflow.WWF will contains following features:
1) Develop under .NET 2.0
2) Based on Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation
3) Fully support WFMC specification
4) Refacted database tables
5) Backwards compatible with Aspose.Workflow.
6) Integrated with Visual Studio 2005

The fist release will be ready in early May, … Continue Reading

Dear Customers,

     We have released Aspose.Workflow 1.1.4.0 hotfix, it contains

• Some SQL execution is not prepared, it take long time to finish, now it is fixed
• Add new API in IPackageAdmin interface, RemoveAllUnusedPackage(),  it used to remove all packages from the repository, which didn’t have any running process instance or there are no any other package refernece the package.
• Add new feature to the Activity whose join type is “XOR”, when add a extended attribute “JoinType.EndTaskOnOtherTransition” to the activity whose join type

Dear Customers,

    The Aspose.Workflow 1.0.5 hotfix contains:

• Add two new interfaces IToolAgentEx and IToolAgentExArgs, which can provide more argument when calling the tool agent, include package id,process id,activity definition id, process instance id and task id, laterly will add more arguments when needed.
• Fix a bug when using SQLServer and Oracle, the “NULL“ test before is not correct.

Enjoy!!!

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Hot Fix contains:

1) New Demo Access Database, totally created under english version windows.

2)New Features:

• Subflow is enabled
• Activity Block is enabled
• Expression evaluation is also implemented using VB.Net

3)SQLServer and Oracle Support enhancement. updated database scripts for create database indexs and store procedures.

4)ExtendedAttribute Access, include Package/Process/Activity ExtendedAttribute Access

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