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With WF3, a lot of people wrote apps that enabled/disabled controls based on the current state of a StateMachine and the possible transitions but to do this with WF4 you had to write a fair bit of code.  In this episode I'll show you how you can take advantage of the new classes in Microso...

Imagine you want to create a library that supports different versions of .NET.  Of course there are multiple ways to do this but this is the technique that I have adopted for my CodePlex projects.  In this episode I'll show you the sample project I used to test out my targets files and how...

What do you do if you want to store state in an activity? Use a field? Be careful—you can get into trouble. In this episode, I show you the right way to manage state in Workflow Activities using Variable<T>.

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) - Activity State Sample

Ron Jacobs
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In this episode I'll show you our new and improved activities for loading XAML and invoking child workflows.  About 6 months ago we did a first release of these activities and the feedback came back with some changes we needed to make.  Now you can

• Load XAML and set the LocalAssembly c...

Create custom activities with Windows Workflow Foundation is easy, but creating a fully featured activity designer is not quite as easy.  In this episode I'll show you the tips and tricks of creating an activity designer to get you up and running quickly.

Links

• How to create a Custom Activity Des...

If you have ever had to try and interop between WCF and other web services stacks like WebLogic , WebSphere Apache or others you know that it can be a painful experience.  The WCF team has just published a cool new project that will make your life much easier.  On this episode I'm joined b...

How many times have you wanted to send a project to a friend or upload it to a web site like MSDN Code Gallery only to find that your zip file has lots of stuff that you don't need to send in it making the file larger than it needs to be.

• bin folder
• obj folder
• TestResults folder
• Resharper folders

An...

Workflow in the cloud... it's like a silver lining just waiting to happen.  In this episode I'm joined by Josh Twist Workflow PM who will show you how you can use Workflow in Windows Azure AppFabric.

Ron Jacobs
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Twitter: @ronljacobs http://twitter.com/ronljacobs

In this video Steve Danielson, a Programming Writer on the WF team, gives a walkthrough of the WF4 State Machine Getting Started Tutorial from the MSDN documentation.

Links

• Getting Started Tutorial
• Completed Version of the WF4 Getting Started Tutorial
• .NET Framework 4 Platform Update 1 Overview
• Window...

Wondering how you can secure your Workflow Service? On this episode, I'm joined by Dave Cliffe who explains how Workflow Security works with WCF Security.

Links:

• Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) - Role Based Security for Workflow Services (Sample Code)
• Workflow Security Pack

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