Linq in V9

Is there any possibility to use linq expressions in scripts (also in CodeActivity)?

I would like to have acces to methods like Contains, ToList and so on which are visible only when "using System.Linq" directive is added to code, unfortunatelly intellisence does not show Linq namespace and when we use CodeActivity box we can't use "using" statement.

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achopra

You should be able to reference the Linq objects in your C# code activity or server script if you copy the appropriate DLL into the C:\Program Files\Metastorm\BPM\Designer\CustomLib folder (or wherever you have BPM installed). Or you can have the DLL in a different folder as long as your Designer scripting options are configured to include that folder.

In order to deploy and run, you will also need the DLL to be in the following folders:

C:\Program Files\Metastorm\BPM\Deployment\CustomLib

C:\Program Files\Metastorm\BPM\Engine\dotnetbin

Also, within a server script, you can use "using" statements to simplify things. I would recommend writing re-usable server script functions and then promoting those functions to the expression builder or visual script activity toolbox, or just calling the functions from a code activity.

Grzegorz Lag

Why there is no possibility to use it without copy dll and make big mess on hard disk, as i think, this dll is in GAC. Why there is no possibility to use dll from GAC?