state machine workflow desginer

I'm following Lab4, somehow my designer for the state machine workflow looks different from the screen capture on the lab manual. On my designer, all states are on auto arrange and I cannot see the links between them after I set up the set state. Is there a setting or a different view of the designer that I need to set

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The free-form state machine designer that you see in the lab manual is disabled by default with the Beta 1 release. You need to change a registry key to enable the free-form designer. The registry key is located at:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Workflow Foundation

There should be a key named "EnableFreeForm". Just set the value to 1.

James Conard
Architect Evangelist - Windows Workflow Foundation
http://www.WindowsWorkflow.net
http://blogs.msdn.com/jamescon
driekus77
It works on string keys too
JohnGr

Dennis Pilarinos wrote:
James has it almost 100% correct.. the key needs to be a DWORD :)

I knew I forgot something.

Also, we've posted the Order Processing State Machine example application to the WindowsWorkflow.net site. There are a pair of .reg files included in the download for turning on/off the free-form designer. (because I can never remember the reg key) This example is similiar to the one included in the lab downloads, but it also demonstrates how to dyanmically update a running workflow by adding states.
http://www.windowsworkflow.net/default.aspx tabindex=4&tabid=41

James Conard
Architect Evangelist - Windows Workflow Foundation
http://www.WindowsWorkflow.net
http://blogs.msdn.com/jamescon
ARKHAN
James has it almost 100% correct.. the key needs to be a DWORD :)
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