Caffeinated Wisdom

When I added an SFTP create file action to my Power Automate flow ( https://flow.microsoft.com ) , I got the following error in the action step, within the designer: "Test connection failed" To troubleshoot the Power Automate connection, I had to: go the Power Automate portal then "Data"->"Connections"  the sftp connection was there, I clicked on the ellipsis, and entered the connection info It turns out, that screen provides more details about the connection error. In my case, it was complaining that "SSH host key finger-print xxx format is not supported. It must be in 'MD5' format". I had provided the sha fingerprint that WinScp shows. Instead, I needed to use the MD5 version of the fingerprint. To get that, I had to run in command line (I was in a folder that had openssh in it): ssh -o FingerprintHash=md5 mysftpsite.com To get the fingerprint in MD5 format. I took the string (without the "MD5:" part of the string) and put ...

Unfortunately, I have not been able to make the CoreWf library ( https://github.com/UiPath-Open/corewf ) run on an Azure v2 or v3 functions. Something about the Azure function runtime not able to fins the dependencies like System.Xaml or System.CodeDom. However, Azure v1 functions (which run on .net 4.6.1) have no problems running a Workflow created using the Workflow Designer in Visual Studio. A sample of such function is in  https://github.com/jptarqu/WorkflowForCorePlayground/tree/master/src/AzureSamples  .  I did run into an issue creating from Visual Studio the Function App Service with runtime version of "1". I was seeing "runtime: error" in the portal's overview page for the app service. To work around that issue, I created the function app service inside the Azure Portal and then changed it to version 1 inside the portal (the default is v3 and you cannot change it until the App Service is created).

Workflow Foundation is a great tool when designing workflows for .net. Unfortunately, just like WCF, that technology is not going to be ported to .net core. However, a company named UI Path ( https://www.uipath.com/ )  that heavily relies on Windows Workflow Foundation, has started an unofficial port to .net ( https://github.com/UiPath-Open/corewf ). In order to see how compatible would be the the new port with the current Windows Workflow for simple workflows, I created a playground project at   https://github.com/jptarqu/WorkflowForCorePlayground  . The Visual Studio solution contains two projects: WorkflowForCorePlayground  : a VB.net Windows Workflow project created using the VS template for .net 4.8.  CoreWfSample  : a .net core console app that runs a cleaned version of the same xaml that project #1 has. The idea is to explore the possibility of still having business users design the workflow using the regular .net framework 4.8 beautif...