Why the acronym for Windows Workflow Foundation is WF and not WWF
Erwyn van der Meer
writes "Ever wondered why the acronym for Windows Workflow Foundation is WF and not WWF? "
Michael Stiefel on Windows Workflow Foundation (1 of 4)
trobbins
writes "Check out Michael on DNR TV!
June, 2006 is Windows Workflow Foundation month at dnrTV. We proudly present to you four outstanding shows outlining the power of Microsoft's Windows Workflow Foundation with our esteemed guest, Michael Stiefel.
This week and next you'll be introduce to ...
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WorkflowDesigner hosting and Rules
Jon Flanders
writes "So Matt posted a link to a new updated example from the Workflow team - you can get it here
This sample unfortunately has the same flaw that many of the samples using the Workflow Designer in a re-hosted (e.g. not VS.NET) situation have - is that the Rules editing dialogs are ..."
WorkflowInstance.GetWorkflowDefinition
Jon Flanders
writes "I've answered a bunch of questions about this lately so I thought I'd make a blog most to clarify what this method is all about.
WorkflowInstance.GetWorkflowDefinition returns a full-flegded instantiated Activity object based on what you've passed into WorkflowRuntime.CreateWorkflow. But it is *not*..."
Breakpoints in a custom WF designer? Now you can!
Vittorio Bertocci
writes "Let's break the Infocard series for a short WF flavoured pause.
After months, I finally managed to handle to Matt the WF sample I made with Iwona for the manufacturing webcast from some time ago. And Matt has been so kind first to demonstrate it in his webcast, then to publish it on windowsworkflow.net!
The idea behind the sample is simple: we crossed the ..."
A couple of great new workflow articles
Paul Andrew
writes "Vihang Dalal has written about all you need to know about rehosting the Windows Workflow Foundation designer. Did you know that the workflow designer is a redistributable component with ..."
Choosing a Transport
Nicholas Allen
writes "This is the last planned article in a documentation series covering various aspects of Windows Communication Foundation transports. Today's topic covers how to choose a transport and associated encoder...
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WinFX Beta 2 is Released
Paul Andrew
writes "...If you only want to do workflow development then you just need to install WinFX Beta 2 and then the WF Extensions for Visual Studio Beta 2.2. These are two of the options listed on the above page. The Windows SDK and "Orcas" are not required if all you want to do is worklfow development. They will be helpful for WCF and WPF development.
In case you were wondering, WinFX Beta 2 includes the runtime component for...
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WF and Serialization Part One
Jon Flanders
writes "...If you are running workflows inside of WF and you add a WorkflowPersistenceService to the Runtime, the Runtime will use this service whenever it determines that the workflow should persist. This enables some interesting scenarios like load-balancing, where a workflow can be persisted on one machine and then be brought back to life on another machine (as in an ASP.NET web farm).
Persistence of Workflows is fairly determinilistic, they persist when:
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Bill Gates exec email mentions Windows Workflow Foundation
Paul Andrew
writes "Bill Gates just posted a new email and he mentions Windows Workflow Foundation. Check it out. He says that "smarter workflow software will eliminate friction points that hamper organisational agility"."
Windows Workflow Foundation
Ciaran Roarty
writes "Paul Andrew points out that SharePoint, BizTalk v.Next, and four other products from Microsoft are all being built on top of Windows Workflow Foundation; with probably more to come in the future..."
Six Microsoft Products Building on Windows Workflow Foundation
Paul Andrew
writes "Here are six Microsoft Products that are building on Windows Workflow Foundation. You can too download the developer tools and SDK now..."
Resources for learning Windows Workflow Foundation
David Yack
writes "Here’s some resources I promised for those of you looking to dig in deeper to Windows Workflow Foundation...
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Coming improvements to ASP.NET hosting of Windows Workflow Foundation
Paul Andrew
writes "....Thanks to Israel Hilerio, who is the program manager responsible for hosting on the Windows Workflow Foundation team. He provided much of this information for me.
Samples for Windows Workflow Foundation and ASP.NET...
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Passing Paremeters using the Local Communication Services in WF
Adam Calderon
writes "When I started working with workflow (WF) in early November of 2005 I quickly realized I would need to use the Local Communication Services provided by WF. At the time most of the samples were using very simple data types which was good for getting started but the project I am working on required more complex objects to be passed into and out of the workflow..."
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