I developed a workflow in Visual Studio 2012 using the SharePoint 2013 list workflow template. The workflow only consists of a "WriteToHistory" activity that writes "Hello World" to the history list.
I deployed the workflow, created a list item and it worked. I then changed the WriteToHistory activity from "Hello World" to "Hello World Changed" and redeployed. When I ran the workflow again it still showed the original message "Hello World".
Steps I've taken to troubleshoot... all with the same result as above...
- Without retracting... remove the workflow from the list, deactivate the feature, activate the feature (which adds the workflow to the list), run the workflow
- Without retracting... remove the workflow from the list, deactivate the feature, restart w3svc and workflow backend service, activate feature, run the workflow
- 2 with iisreset instead of restarting the services
- Both 1, 2, and 3 with retraction
- I also tried rebooting the server to see if it might have been a caching issue
I still think it's a caching issue, but I don't know where to reset the cache.
When I looked at the xaml file in SharePoint using SharePoint Manager 2013 it had the updated string.
One other thing I noticed is when I opened SharePoint Designer to the site where all of this is being deployed it showed the workflow even after it had been retracted. I tried to delete it in designer and got no error messages, but it was still there. If I click into the workflow in designer it tells me it can't find the workflow definition.
This is a development machine with the latest bits and everything installed on one server. I'm working on a sub site collection's subsite http://maincollection/sites/subcollection/subsite. I ran the Register-SPWorkflowService command and used http://maincollection as the target.
Thoughts?
