Entries tagged with windows workflow - Channel 9

Water Cooler Demo - SharePoint Visual Studio workflows for escalations

Kirk Evans — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 21:36:00 GMT

Our first episode of The Water Cooler Demo show, the show focused on all things Office related. In this episode, Kirk Evans demonstrates how to create a SharePoint state machine workflow using Visual Studio 2008 that accomodates escalations and timeouts.

Got any suggestions for future episodes? Tell us in the comments below!

Dariusz quatscht: PDC 2008 - Tag 1

Dariusz Parys — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 05:17:00 GMT

Momentan befinde ich mich auf der PDC2008 und berichte über die entsprechenden Ereignisse im Rahmen des ersten Tages.

Mit den Themen

Windows Azure
C# 4.0
Windows Workflow 4.0

Viel Spaß beim reinhören,

Dariusz

endpoint.tv Screencast - Creating Your First Sequential Workflow

Cliff Simpkins — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:00:00 GMT

This week's weekly WF/WCF Screencast series shakes things up a bit. This week is the first in the series covering Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). We will be alternating back and forth between the WF and WCF technologies each month.

In this short video, CSD MVP Matt Milner from PluralSight guides the viewer through how to create your WF Sequential Workflow. The screencast takes you on a quick tour of putting together a sequential workflow - creating the workflow, adding the business logic using flow control activities, and using custom activities to do the work. As an example, Matt uses the example of processing an eCommerce order - processing a customer purchasing transaction and working with back-end inventory. As we create the workflow, Matt discusses custom activities, using base activity library activities, and binding activity properties to custom workflow properties.

Compared to the WCF screencasts, this may seem to be a lot more to digest up front, but this screencast provides a good starting overview, that we will drill into as we move through the series.

For additional information on WF, please check out the WF Dev Center on MSDN and the .NET Endpoint team blog. For more information on classes offered by Aaron and the PluralSight folks, check out their catalog of instructor led courses and new online courses that cover a variety of Microsoft technologies, ranging from .NET v3.5 to WSS to BizTalk server.

The Dynamics Duo talk about Dynamics CRM Customization

Ben Riga — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:18:00 GMT

Girish on my team has been working on a demo that demonstrates the capabilities of the Dynamics CRM platform. We figured it would be a lot more interesting to get some of that on video in the form of a conversation (as opposed to a screencast) so I get to play the role of interviewer and Girish is the "talent" :). In this episode, we started off thinking we'd talk about Dynamics CRM and SharePoint integration but got so deep into the underlying capabilities of CRM that we ran out of time. We'll show you the SharePoint stuff in the next episode. I promise!

The demo that Girish has been working on uses the scenario of a fictitious graphics design firm (i.e. a professional services organization). Clearly CRM works great for automating sales, service and marketing functions. What we think about is the stuff under the covers that can be used by developers and ISVs to build new applications that may or may not be related to CRM. That’s what we mean by the CRM platform.

This includes the basic metadata required to store the data related to a line-of-business application. CRM uses the concept of entities and attributes to store data whether your online or offline (all stored in SQL Server). It also makes the building of relationships among those pretty simple. Once you've got your metadata defined then building forms for the UI (ASP.NET) and workflow (Workflow Foundation) for process are next.

We’ll get into a lot more of the platform (and in particular the extensibility options) in the next few episodes.

Long Running Work via Messaging in .NET 3.5

Jennifer Marsman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:39:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman highlights the different ways we can communicate with services using the Send activity in Windows Workflow. We'll walk through using the Send activity to call a Request-Reply MEP, a datagram (one-way) MEP, and by using a messaging approach to explicitly model sending and receiving.

Duplex Messaging in .NET 3.5

Jennifer Marsman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:37:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman walks through duplex messaging, where two workflows communicate with each other. This is accomplished by explicitly forwarding the callback context to the service and letting it use that to message back to the caller.

Context Exchange and Management in .NET 3.5

Jennifer Marsman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:35:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman demonstrates how context is exchanged between two parties in a conversation, and how we can obtain the context and explicitly manage it to enable additional clients to participate in the workflow.

Durable Services in .NET 3.5

Jennifer Marsman — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:33:00 GMT

Jennifer Marsman demonstrates using a WPF calculator to call a durable instance of a WCF service, which will store its state within a persistence database, similar to what happens with Workflow.

Evolución de la Plataforma de Servicios

Elisa García — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:15:00 GMT

En una de las charlas del Evolution Show, Cesar de la Torre nos ofreció una instructiva sesión sobre cómo ha evolucionado la plataforma de servicios.

Durante la ponencia, repasó brevemente las tecnologías SOA (Arquitectura Orientada a Servicios), WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) y WF (Windows Workflow Foundation) y las novedades que presenta .NET Framework 3.5 con respecto a estas.

Cesar de la Torre trabaja en el departamento de Desarrollo y Plataforma de Microsoft Ibérica ayudando a partners e ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) a adoptar las novedades en arquitectura y tecnologías de negocio, como Dynamics (CRM, NAV, AX), desarrollo SOA (WS y WCF) y WF.

También puedes descargar la presentación que utilizó Cesar en la ponencia.

Service Enabling Workflows

Jared Bienz — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:53:00 GMT

Part three in my short series on Workflow Foundation covers service enabling workflows. Service enabling a workflow doesn’t necessarily mean WCF, though WCF is certainly an option. In this screencast we look at leveraging services to enable activities that can run in various host environments.

This is a continuation from part 2, so you may want to view that screencast first if you haven’t seen it.

Part 1: Part 2: Files: Service Enabled Sample Files [Updated]

Hosting a Workflow in a Local Executable using Workflow Services Part I

keydet — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:40:00 GMT

When the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) was first introduced in the .NET Framework 3.0, the only way to host a workflow in a client application was to use the WorkflowRuntime class programmatically, start the runtime, and create/start an instance of a workflow. Furthermore, if you wanted to communicate between the client code and the workflow logic, you needed to ues a ExternalDataExchangeService. This required a fair amount coding effort to get even the simplest of workflows up and running. The .NET Framework 3.5 introduced Workflow Services which are Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Services authored as workflows. Workflow Services give you a new way to accomplish this scenario using a much simpler, cleaner, and arguably more elegant approach. In this three part screencast, I show you how to improve on the more manual hosting + ExternalDataExchangeServices approach by hosting a workflow in a client executable using Workflow Service.

Part I - Reviewing the SimpleExpenseReport application from the Create a Sequential Workflow tutorial so we can compare the two approaches. The application explicitly hosts the WorkflowRuntime & uses ExternalDataExchangeService

Part II - Walking through the fundamentals of creating a Workflow Service and hosting the Workflow Service locally

Part III - Walking through my rewrite of the SimpleExpenseReport application using Workflow Services.

Source code for the Workflow Services version of SimpleExpenseReport is available at http://cid-1f72da7294089597.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/WCF_WF/SimpleExpenseReportWorkflowServices.zip.

Hosting a Workflow in a Local Executable using Workflow Services Part II

keydet — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:30:00 GMT

Part II - Walking through the fundamentals of creating a Workflow Service and hosting the Workflow Service locally

Part III - Walking through my rewrite of the SimpleExpenseReport application using Workflow Services.

Source code for the Workflow Services version of SimpleExpenseReport is available at http://cid-1f72da7294089597.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/WCF_WF/SimpleExpenseReportWorkflowServices.zip.

Hosting a Workflow in a Local Executable using Workflow Services Part III

keydet — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:22:00 GMT

Part II - Walking through the fundamentals of creating a Workflow Service and hosting the Workflow Service locally

Part III - Walking through my rewrite of the SimpleExpenseReport application using Workflow Services.

Source code for the Workflow Services version of SimpleExpenseReport is available at http://cid-1f72da7294089597.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/WCF_WF/SimpleExpenseReportWorkflowServices.zip.

Windows Media Workflow at Starz: Episode 3 of 3 - The Software

Michael S. Scherotter — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 03:44:36 GMT

Starz Entertainment, the providers of premium TV channels like Starz and Encore and Vongo downloadable movies has built their entire media infrastructure around Windows Media. Stephen Smith, Director of Media System Integration walks us through the entire workflow and architecture of the system that they built.

This is a 3-part series, the architecture, then the software that they built.

In this final episode, Stephen walks Michael Scherotter through the WPF application that Starz built to control the pipeline of media jobs that are each instances of Windows Workflow Foundation workflows. WPF has allowed Starz to craft a highly skinnable and adaptable user interface.

One of the most interesting applications of this digital media architecture and workflow has been the indexing of the spoken content of their entire catalog using SQL Server database and exposing that index via search through Interactive Media Manager (IMM). Stephen explains that process at 20:36 in the interview. That step has enable users of this system at Starz to search their entire 200 Terabyte SAN for specific instances of spoken words directly from IMM.

Getting started: Windows Workflow (WF) 100

bruceky — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 18:05:01 GMT

Bruce provides the very first basics in using Windows Workflow. This 7-minute screencast shows how to get started screencast that tells you how to create a workflow project, how to author a basic sequential workflow, how to set breakpoints and debug code, and how to drag and drop activities.

For the next screencast for Workflow, see From Code Activity to Custom Activity

Part 3: Part 2 Project Files

Jared Bienz
ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
Sites of Interest: MSDN Events | US ISV Team Blog

Sample Activity with Validation

Jared Bienz — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:31:51 GMT

This archive includes the sample source for part 2 in my series of workflow screencasts.

Windows Media Workflow at Starz: Episode 2 of 3 - The Architecture

Michael S. Scherotter — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 17:37:33 GMT

This is a 3-part series, the software that they built.

In this second part focusing on the architecture, Stephen whiteboards out their entire media architecture that is based on a 200 terabyte SAN of Windows Media digital masters. Using Windows Workflow Foundation to automate the application of DirectShow filters to Windows Media files, Starz has built a media delivery pipeline that lets them create media in a variety of formats.

Windows Media Workflow at Starz: Episode 1 of 3 - The Hardware

Charles — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:19:13 GMT

Starz Entertainment , the providers of premium TV channels like Starz and Encore and Vongo downloadable movies has built their entire media infrastructure around Windows Media. Stephen Smith, Director of Media System Integration walks us through the entire workflow and architecture of the system that they built.

This is a 3-part series, first showing the hardware, then the software that they built.

In this first part focusing on the hardware, Stephen takes Michael through different parts of the process where hardware from media encoders to satellites ingest, process, and transmit premium video content throughout North America.

MSDN TV - WCF och WF integration i .NET Framework 3.5

Johan Lindfors — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:20:15 GMT

En introduktion till hur du i .NET Framework 3.5 kan integrera Windows Workflow Foundation och Windows Communication Foundation med hjälp av WorkflowServiceHost.

From Code Activity to Custom Activity

Jared Bienz — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:57:43 GMT

With the Activity Defaults and Validation

Jared Bienz
ISV Architect Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation
Sites of Interest: MSDN Events | US ISV Team Blog

VS2008 Training Kit: Building Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation Enabled Windows Communication Fo

DavidAiken — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:27:34 GMT

Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast.

This session was presented by Matt Winkler and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397.

The major enhancement to Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) inside the .NET Framework 3.5 is the integration with the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in the functionality known as Workflow Services. This session will introduce the reasoning behind wanting to implement services as workflows and exposing workflows as services and then discuss the architectural foundations behind it. This technology was built upon the existing extensibility mechanisms in the framework and allows one to easily consume services as well as create them using WF. This session will introduce the basics of Workflow Services and then proceed to discuss the more advanced scenarios of duplex communication and conversations with multiple parties over the same contract.

Recorded September 2007.

VS2008 Training Kit: Connected Application Foundations using WCF, WF, and Windows CardSpace

DavidAiken — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:21:22 GMT

Hi and welcome to another Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit screencast.

This session was presented by Justin Smith and is the from the Visual Studio 2008 training kit available from http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7602397.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), and Windows CardSpace are powerful technologies for services, workflows, and identity management, respectively. This talk introduces developers to all three technologies, describes how they work, and how to write applications that take advantage of their features. Topics covered include: SOA basics, WCF architecture, WCF bindings, hosting WCF services, WCF behaviors, WF architecture, WF activities, WF hosting, WCF and WF integration, CardSpace basics, and integrating CardSpace into web applications.

Recorded September 2007.

geekSpeak WF and BizTalk with Mick Badran

llangit — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:03:53 GMT

When's the last time you talked to an Australian developer at 4am his time? Well, I don't think I really want you to answer that question!

Anyway, friend (you'd have to be, right?;)) and expert WF and BizTalk developer, Mick Badran joined the geekSpeak as 'expert-in-the-house.'

He did a great job not only explaining core differences between Windows Workflow and BizTalk orchestrations, but also elaborated, based on the usual tough listener questions, on pipeline implementations, exposing orchestrations as web services and more.

geekSpeak - Workflow with Mark Dunn

llangit — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:19:23 GMT

Learn about best practice for implementing Windows Workflow policies and rules with expert Mark Dunn in this interactive format.

Hear the answers to common developer questions in this mostly demonstration-based webcast.

Mark's years of experience as a .NET developer and WF architect help you to understand the when, where, why and how to use WF in your solutions.