Beginning WF

Windows Workflow in .NET 4.0

By: Mark Collins

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eText | 5 May 2010

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Windows Workflow Foundation is a ground-breaking addition to the core of the .NET Framework that allows you to orchestrate human and system interactions as a series of workflows that can be easily mapped, analyzed, adjusted, and implemented.

As business problems become more complex, the need for a workflow-based solution has never been more evident. WF provides a simple and consistent way to model and implement complex problems. As a developer, you focus on developing the business logic for individual workflow tasks. The runtime handles the execution of those tasks after they have been composed into a workflow.

Beginning WF demonstrates, in an eminently readable and accessible style, how Microsoft's Workflow Foundation (WF) technology can be used in a wide variety of applications.

Loaded with lots of simple yet demonstrative sample projects
Very hands-on with practical "how-to" information
Indexed by feature so specific questions are easily answered

What you???ll learn

Beginning WF will take you step by step through many of the useful applications of workflow technology. Along the way, you will:

Create designer-based and code-based workflows
Communicate between applications using workflow activities
Implement SQL persistence with custom participants
Create workflow extensions and custom activities
Build applications that support long-running workflows
Host workflows in WCF services

Who this book is for

This book is perfectly suited to anyone using or considering Microsoft's Windows Workflow Foundation. It describes what WF can do for you and how to quickly learn the basic concepts needed to be proficient. If you're actively implementing a workflow project, this book has lots of sample projects that demonstrate the most useful design patterns.

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