WF4

Are you sometimes annoyed by Windows Workflow Foundation (WF4) or Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)?  Sure you are.  All of use are sometimes annoyed by these products - including those of us who work on the team.  We know there are things we could do to make the products better…

In the next installment of the Versioning Spike Series I'm going to walk you through my test application that demonstrates the use of Promoted Properties to store extra information I need to make a decision about the safety of upgrading a persisted instance. For more information see this blog post…

Versioning is always a hard problem.  When you add to this problem long running workflows then it gets really tricky.  In this series I'm exploring possible solutions for versioning workflows and activities.  In this episode I'm going to take a step back and frame the problem so we…

Versioning is a hard problem.  I have to admit I've been slow to address this but I've finally had enough.  We have to come up with some kind of solution for you.  At this point I don't have the answers worked out but I decided to take you with me on this journey of discovery. For…

Suppose you have a workflow that needs to call another workflow. How do you do it? In this episode, I show you how to do so by using the InvokeWorkflow activity of the Microsoft.Activities project. For more info see this blog post Ron Jacobs   http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobsTwitter:…

You've been asking for it and here it is.  I've put together some sample code showing how you can use WF4 with ASP.NET and do it the right way... the fast way with async calls. For more info see this blog post Ron Jacobs   http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobsTwitter: @ronljacobs…

I recently received an email from an endpoint.tv viewer asking a question about why his Workflow Service didn't work properly.  He sent me a repro and I could see that it wasn't working right but it was difficult to know why. In this episode I'm going to show you how you can use…

I'm committed to building better samples.  In this episode I'm going to show you a new sample for WF4 Collection Activities and some of the new things we are doing to make better samples for you. Ron Jacobshttp://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobsTwitter: @ronljacobs

In this episode I'm joined by Leon Welicki who will show ushow you can create your own custom control flow activities for Windows WorkflowFoundation (WF4).   RonJacobshttp://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobsTwitter: @ronljacobs

Did you know by making one simple change you could improve the performance of your workflows by an order of magnitude?  In this episode I'll show you some tips and tricks for making your workflows much, much faster and help you understand why this change is so important. Ron…