WF4

Are you a WF4 Noob?  Don't feel bad...everybody has to start somewhere.  In this introduction, we start at "Hello World" and move through expressions, variables, arguments, and composition, all in less than 9 minutes.For more info be sure to check out my  blog

If you have experimented with Workflow Services you might be wondering how you can authorize access to these.  Recently somebody asked me that very question.  We put together this sample app and video to show you a simple way you can provide a ServiceAuthorizationManager to do the…

Don't you hate it when things go wrong? Most of the time on endpoint.tv, I show you when everything is working properly. On this episode, however, I'm going to show you some tools and techniques for troubleshooting what happens when you invoke a proxy with the wrong service address.Ron…

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 3, we cover Activity Design guidelines including Naming Properties vs. Arguments For more information endpoint.tv -…

Matt Winkler has been working with Windows Workflow Foundation for a long time. In fact, he used to be the Workflow Evangelist, but now he is part of the team building the Workflow Designer. In this episode, Matt and I begin the first part of a long discussion about Workflow and Activities. Later,…

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…