If you've been struggling with hosting the WF designer outside of Visual Studio then there is a new document available on MSDN from Vihang that describes the process in a little more detail.

I've been doing a lot of work with this over the past couple of weeks. Between the following sources, I've managed to do pretty much everything I've wanted so should help you too:

• Vihang's MSDN article
• WFPad from Mark Schmidt
• The WF monitoring application from WinFx SDK (only example of using GlyphProvider)
• The WF Designer hosting sample from the WF labs (lab 10).

The monitoring application is useful to see how you can adorn the surface with new glyphs which is pretty cool and used to good effect in that app. (By the way, if you don't see the monitoring working when you try it, it's probably because the tracking service is set to 'batch'. The SDK docs mention that the default for batch mode is false, but it actually seems to be set to true).

I'm looking forward to seeing a straightforward 'readonly' control that visualises a workflow running and statuses from the tracking database as I don't necessarily need all of the features of the designer for some applications. (I'd really like to see a cool WPF control for this...)