pdc2008

A Lap around "Oslo"

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:15 GMT

Please Note: This session will be repeated on October 29th at 4:45PM. "Oslo" is the family of new technologies that enable data-driven development and execution of services and applications. Come and learn how to capture all aspects of an application schematized in the "Oslo" repository and use "Oslo" directly to drive the execution of deployed applications.

Douglas Purdy
Douglas Purdy is a product unit manager at Microsoft working on next-generation languages and tools to broaden the franchise of people building applications. His vision is to “make everyone a programmer” (even if they don’t know it). Previously, Douglas was the group program manager for the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF/Indigo) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF/WinOE) teams. Douglas has been with Microsoft, on and off, since 1998 where he has worked in consulting, evangelism and engineering.
Vijaye Raji

WF 4.0: Extending with Custom Activities

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:11 GMT

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4.0 coordinates and manages individual units of work, encapsulated into activities. WF comes with a rich library of activities. Learn how to extend this library by encapsulating your own APIs with custom activities. See how to compose those basic activities into higher level units using rules, flowchart, and state machine control flow styles. Learn how to build your own WF control styles. Learn how to customize and re-host the workflow authoring experience using the new WF designer framework.

Matt Winkler
Matt is currently the program manger focused on building the WF Designer in Visual Studio.

WCF 4.0: Building WCF Services with WF in Microsoft .NET 4.0

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:37:44 GMT

Eliminate the tradeoff between ease of service authoring and performant, scalable services. Hear about significant enhancements in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0 and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4.0 to deal with the ever increasing complexity of communication. Learn how to use WCF to correlate messages to service instances using transport, context, and application payloads. See how the new WF messaging activities enable the modeling of rich protocols. Learn how WCF provides a default host for workflows exposing features such as distributed compensation and discovery. See how service definition in XAML completes the union of WF and WCF with a unified authoring experience that simplifies configuration and is fully integrated with IIS activation and deployment.

Ed Pinto

WF 4.0: A First Look

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:06 GMT

Programs coordinate work. The code for coordination and state management often obscures a program's purpose. Learn how programming with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4.0 provides clarity of intent while preserving the functional richness of the .NET framework. See how easy it is to build workflows with the new Visual Studio workflow designer. Learn about text-based authoring options for WF. Hear how WF integrates well with other Microsoft technologies (WCF, WPF, ASP.NET). If you've looked at WF before, come and see the changes to data flow, composition, and new control flow styles. Significant improvements to usability, composability, and performance make Workflow a great fit for a broad range of solutions on both the client and the server.

Kenny Wolf
Kenny Wolf is an Architect at Microsoft responsible for WF and WCF. Previously, Kenny was the Technical Lead for WCF Transports and Channels. Kenny has been with Microsoft since 1997. After shipping 3 versions of Office for the Macintosh, Kenny joined a platform incubation called "Indigo" (now WCF). Kenny holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science from Yale University.

SharePoint 2007: Advanced Asynchronous Workflow Messaging

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:33:13 GMT

Learn how to build an employee on-boarding application that depends on a server located inside another company. We show how to use Microsoft Visual Studio to build the document workflow and have it asynchronously message a business service hosted behind another company's firewall.

Alex Malek

Microsoft .NET Framework: Declarative Programming Using XAML

Adam Kinney — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:38:00 GMT

If you're using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), or Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), then XAML is your new best friend! Learn how an entire application-from presentation to data to services to workflow--can be authored using simple, declarative XAML notations introduced in the next version of the .NET Framework. Learn about XAML additions like: support for generics, object references, non-default constructors, and more.

Daniel Roth

Daniel Roth has been working on the Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation for the past four years. He is excited to bring the benefits XAML to the world of webservices and workflows.
Rob Relyea

"Dublin": Hosting and Managing Workflows and Services in Windows Application Server

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:36 GMT

Hear about extensions being made to Windows Server to provide a feature-rich middle-tier execution and deployment environment for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) applications. Learn about the architecture of this new extension, how it works, how to take advantage of it, and the features it provides that simplify deployment, management, and troubleshooting of workflows and services.

Dan Eshner

.NET Services: Orchestrating Services and Business Processes Using Cloud-Based Workflow

System — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:32:46 GMT

See how simple it is to use cloud-based workflow services to run business processes in the cloud as well as perform orchestration across on-premises and cloud services while running workflows in an environment that scales automatically.

Moustafa Ahmed
Moustafa Khalil Ahmed is a Program Manager with the .Net Online Services team at Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA. Since joining Microsoft in 2000, he helped develop and ship multiple server products and development frameworks and tools including BizTalk Server 2004, Windows Workflow Foundation in .Net Framework 3.0 and Visual Studio 2008. Moustafa is currently focused on Cloud-Based Services and particularly Workflow Service.