Workflow TV

When we asked you what you wanted to see on endpoint.tv, one of the top three most requested topics was How to Unit Test Workflows.On this episode, I'll show you how to test Simple activities using WorkflowInvoker Complex activities with bookmarks and WorkflowApplication WorkflowServices with…

After the previous episode on the WF Batch Job example went live many people asked me if there was a way to automatically start a batch job at system boot.  There is a way and I described it inthis blog post.  For more detail, check out this episode as I show you how to do it.Ron…

One of the great things about using a Workflow is that you can define behaviors that will be applied when your workflow (or some part of it) is canceled.Activities, for example, can be canceled by the parent activity that contains them (as is the case with a Parallel), and the Workflow itself can be…

Even though you have a working application, you might want to make a few improvements. In this exercise, asWorkflow1 is not a very descriptive name, you will change it to SayHello and see how the changes to the workflow name affect the rest of the program.Intro To WF4 Hands On Lab (Visual Studio…

  Workflows execute a business process. Each step in that process is implemented by anActivity. In this exercise, you will create and test a simple "Hello World" process using Windows Workflow Foundation 4.Intro To WF4 Hands On Lab (Visual Studio Gallery)Intro To WF4 Hands On Lab…

I've created a new Hands On Lab prototype using the Feature Builder PowerTool for Visual Studio.  In this epsiode I'll show you how you can download and get started with this hands on lab.  I'd love to hear your feedback on the lab so let me know whatyou think.Intro To WF4 Hands On Lab…

In this exercise, you will modify the host application to run your SayHello activity withWorkflowApplication and observe the threading behavior. You now have two requirements for your workflow. Return a personalized greetingGenerate the personalized greeting on background threadUsing the "test…

  In this exercise you will enhance your program and the SayHello activity to meet some new requirements. Generate a personalized greeting Provide unit tests to verify the personalized greeting Intro To WF4 Hands On Lab (Visual Studio Gallery)Intro To WF4 Hands On Lab (MSDN Code…

  In this episode, Windows Workflow Foundation team Program Manager Leon Welicki drops in to show us the team's guidelines for developing custom activities.   In Part 5, we cover more Activity Design guidelines including XAML Serialization Execution Properties Validation    For…

In this episode I'll show you the new WF4 State Machine Driven WPF UI sample.  This application uses a state machine to drive the UI enabling and disabling commands as the states change.  I learned a lot by writing this sample using the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern and by…