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I have a custom actvity in VS2008. All is well until I added a new dependancy property like so: public static DependencyProperty EventLookupColumnNameProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("EventLookupColumnName",typeof(string),typeof(FTFSyncEventToAttachmentListItem)); public static DependencyProperty EventLookupColumnIDProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("EventLookupColumnID",typeof(string),typeof(FTFSyncEventToAttachmentListItem)); [Description("Event Lookup Column Name")][DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Visible)][Browsable(true)][ValidationOption(ValidationOption.Required)]public string EventLookupColumnName{get { return ((string)(base.GetValue(EventLookupColumnNameProperty))); }set { base.SetValue(EventLookupColumnNameProperty, value); } [Description("Event Lookup Column ID")][ValidationOption(ValidationOption.Required)][Browsable(true)][DesignerSerializationVisibility(DesignerSerializationVisibility.Visible)]public int EventLookupColumnID{get { return ((int)(base.GetValue(EventLookupColumnIDProperty))); }set { base.SetValue(EventLookupColumnIDProperty, value); }}Then in the actions file:ÃÂ ÃÂ ÃÂ <Action Name="FTF Sync Event To Attachment List Item"ÃÂ ÃÂ ClassName="DP.Sharepoint.Workflow.FTFSyncEventToAttachmentListItem"ÃÂ ÃÂ Assembly="DP.Sharepoint.Workflow, Version=1.0.0.0, Cultur

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