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Not answered "Could not find a type for a name" when changing "pageWorkflowType" to external class

Scott McNeany

Posted on Mar 12, 2010 (permalink)

Hello,

I am working on overriding the default behavior of the Activity class by inheriting from it and changing the "pageWorkflowType" in the web.config to my custom class. This is all documented in http://www.sitefinity.com/support/kb/sitefinity-3-x/how-to-notify-roles-that-a-page-has-been-sent-through-workflow.aspx, but this post places the code in the App_Code folder. I got that working correctly. However, when I move the class outside of my solution into a custom DLL, compile, include the DLL as a reference, replace the pageWorkflowType my new class/assembly name (SiteFinityAddOns.CustomPageWorkflow, SiteFinityAddOns), then run my project, I get an error that states:

Could not find a type for a name. The type name was 'CustomPageWorkflow, App_Code._33wn8b0, Version=0.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.

I know that the assembly name, and the class name are correct, because if I change them, I get different errors.

Another thing to note is that when the assembly name or the class name are WRONG, i get the error on my %siteroot%/default.aspx page, but when it is right, I only get the error on the %siteroot%/SiteFinity/ page.

Any ideas? Please help. I really don't want to have to put the code back into the project's App_Code folder.

Thank you,

Scott McNeany

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Scott McNeany

Posted on Mar 16, 2010 (permalink)

Yeah, I tried that before and again after you suggested it. No go. It's like one of the Sitefinity DLLs is hard-coding the App_Code portion of the location, and not allowing me to specify that actually assembly name.

Is there anyone that could confirm that this works/doesn't work for them?

All help is appreciated.

Thank you,

Scott McNeany

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Scott McNeany

Posted on Mar 16, 2010 (permalink)

Yes, below is the web.config reference to that I am using to access my custom workflow class.

<

add connectionStringName="DefaultConnection" allowPageHistory="true" allowPageWorkflow="true" pageWorkflowType="SiteFinityAddOns.Workflow.CustomPageWorkflow, SiteFinityAddOns.Merge.dll" cachingProviderName="ASPNET" name="Sitefinity" type="Telerik.Cms.Data.DefaultProvider, Telerik.Cms.Data" applicationName="/StopLoss"/>

If I put the "CustomPageWorkflow" class back into the App_Code folder and change the reference back to pageWorkflowType="CustomPageWorkflow", it works.

However, this requires me to include the actual code in all Sitefinity projects (~ 5 different projects) instead of just including the reference to the DLL in all projects.

If it helps, the start of the class is seen below just for reference:

public

class CustomPageWorkflow : PageWorkflow

{

protected override void LoadActivities()

{

// Step 1: wait to send for approval

//****************************************************************

ListenActivity listen = Activity.Load<ListenActivity>(base.Transaction);

base.AddActivity(listen);

Like I said, the code works great when it is in App_Code, and not when it is in the external DLL.

Thank you,

Scott

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