Windows Workflow 3.5 Fundamentals
Learn how to model and implement long-running business processes that are reactive and transparent in nature using Windows Workflow Foundation
What you'll learn
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) allows developers to create dynamic, reactive applications with true object reuse and composition. WF provides the tools and services .NET developers need to add rich workflow capabilities to their ASP.NET and Smart Client applications as well as Web and Windows services. WF solves many common problems that developers encounter when building typical applications with processes that span more than a single interaction. With the ability to fully involve business users and IT Pros in the use and monitoring of an application, WF stands to single-handedly change the way .NET programs are written in the future. This course provides fast-paced exposure to WF to get you started today, and provides information on using WF with the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to build transparent services and smart clients.
Table of contents
- Programming WF with Visual Studio .NET 0m
- Outline 1m
- Visual Studio Extensions for WF 7m
- Demo: Visual Studio integration 9m
- Base activity library 2m
- Event based activities 3m
- Branching activities 2m
- Demo: Base activity library 8m
- Rule and data driven activities 6m
- Synchronization 3m
- Workflow debugger 3m
- Demo: Replicator and synchronization 12m
- Summary 1m
- Activity Fundamentals 0m
- Outline 1m
- Understanding activities 2m
- Base activity library 1m
- Developing activities 5m
- Dependency properties 6m
- Demo: Dependency properties 20m
- Activities that must wait 2m
- Workflow queues 4m
- Demo: Creating activities that wait (workflow queues) 12m
- Activity validation 3m
- Demo: Activity validators 9m
- Summary 1m
- Workflow Runtime and Services 0m
- Outline 1m
- Workflow runtime 1m
- Workflow hosting environments 2m
- Using WorkflowRuntime 3m
- Considerations for XAML activation 4m
- Demo: Creating and running workflows 11m
- Runtime events 4m
- Runtime workflow execution 6m
- Runtime services 4m
- Threading/scheduling services 6m
- Demo: Runtime events and control 12m
- Creating custom runtime services 2m
- Sending data to the workflow from the host 4m
- Local communications 5m
- Demo: Custom runtime service 7m
- Summary 1m
- Workflow and Services 0m
- Outline 1m
- Workflow and services 3m
- Web service support 2m
- .NET 3.0 web service support 6m
- Demo: .NET 3.0 web service support 21m
- What’s required for integration w/ WCF 3m
- Visual Studio 2008 integration 7m
- .NET Framework 3.5 hosting 5m
- Demo: Workflow Services in .NET 3.5 22m
- Context management 4m
- .NET 3.0 support for WCF 7m
- Summary 1m
About the author
Matt is an independent consultant with expertise in web application design and development and systems integration. As a writer, Matt has contributed to several journals and magazines such as MSDN Magazine. Matt regularly shares his love of technology by speaking at local, regional, and international conferences such as DevWeek, Prairie Dev Con, That Conference, and VS Live. As a Pluralsight Author, Matt has created more than 30 courses on the topics of web, mobile, and cloud development.