WF4

What if you wanted to allow your business customers to modify the way their business processes work without resorting to custom code? Many products have this requirement, as does Microsoft Dynamics AX. In this episode, I’ll chat with Josh Honeyman, development lead on the team, about how they…

Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET 4 makes it easy to build and consume web services.  In this episode I'll take you through the Introduction to Workflow Services lab from the Visual Studio 2010 Training Kit.  Where you will learn about some cool new features such as content based…

Have you ever noticed that there are often several products or solutions available when you want to solve a problem with the Microsoft platform, and so you aren't sure which is the right fit? With AppFabric, for example, there's a fair bit of overlap between BizTalk and Workflow. Luckily, a group…

Do you need to create WSDL contracts and WCF Services from XML Schema (xsd)? If so, you need to know about WSCF.blue, an addin brought to you by some terrific developers, including Santosh Benjamin Muthiah, Edward Bakker, Alex Meyer-Gleaves, Christian Weyer, and Buddhike De Silva. In…

Windows Workflow in .NET 4 (WF4) is an all new workflow engine.  In this episode I'm going to take you through the hands on lab from the Visual Studio 2010 training course.I'm going to move quickly through the lab so keep the pause button handy.  Download the Visual Studio 2010…

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 http://blogs.msdn.com/rjacobs Twitter: @ronljacobs http://twitter.com/ronljacobs

One of the great advantages to building services with WCF and Windows Workflow 4 is that the environment is instrumented with loads of events that allow you to track what exactly is happening.  This is useful for health monitoring, troubleshooting and other scenarios like auditing and…

Have you heard about the new Windows Server AppFabric?  In this episode we take you through the new Beta 2 version of the Introduction to Workflow Services Hands On Lab in .NET 4 which now includes a look at portions of Windows Server Application Fabric.Look for this lab in the next update to…

In July Jonathan and Ron paired up to build out a web application for AdventureWorks Bikes.  In this episode we will see how you can Create a model driven ADO.NET Data service Use the new ASP.NET AJAX controls to consume this service Automate the business processing on the backend with a new…

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 a part of the team building the Workflow Designer. In this episode, Matt and I continue our long discussion about Workflow and Activities, focusing in on…