Exporting SharePoint Designer 2010 Work flow to Visual Studio

In this article I am showing you how to export a SharePoint Designer 2010 work flow to Visual Studio.

1. First you have to open your site in SharePoint Designer.

2. From the Ribbon click Reusable Workflow.

3. From the next screen give proper name for your work flow then select the Content type you want to associate this work flow.

4. I have selected a Simple approval work flow and clicked ok as shown below.



5. You have to save the work flow by clicking Save



6. Now you have to publish the work flow to be able to reuse it in all the sites from site collection in SharePoint.

7. Click on Publish Globally.



8. You will get a conformation like below click OK.



9. Click on Workflow settings.



10. Then click on Save as template.



11. Now your work flow will be saved as template in your Site Assets.



12. Now save your work flow template locally.



13. Now open your Visual Studio 2010 and Select Import SharePoint Solution Package.



14. Then Click OK.

15. Give the web application URL click Next.


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16. From the next screen browse our Work flow template and click OK.



17. You will get the below screen then click Finish.



18. Now your work flow be imported to Visual Studio.



19. Once you modified the Workflow then deploy the solution.