endpoint.tv Screencast - Creating Your First State Machine Workflow
- Posted: Sep 17, 2008 at 8:00 AM
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Welcome to the latest video in the weekly WF/WCF Screencast series.
In this short video, CSD MVP Matt Milner from PluralSight guides the viewer through how to create your WF state machine workflow. The screencast takes you on a quick tour of putting together a state machine workflow - creating the workflow, adding the states, and using custom activities to do the work. As an example, Matt uses the example of processing an eCommerce shopping cart - and lifecycle/events that go along with it. As we create the workflow, Matt discusses custom activities, using states, and handling multiple state events (both listening for an event to happen and timing out).
As with the 'first sequential workflow' screencast, 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.
In this short video, CSD MVP Matt Milner from PluralSight guides the viewer through how to create your WF state machine workflow. The screencast takes you on a quick tour of putting together a state machine workflow - creating the workflow, adding the states, and using custom activities to do the work. As an example, Matt uses the example of processing an eCommerce shopping cart - and lifecycle/events that go along with it. As we create the workflow, Matt discusses custom activities, using states, and handling multiple state events (both listening for an event to happen and timing out).
As with the 'first sequential workflow' screencast, 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.
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I'll chime in, and let Matt correct me as needed.
Matt also used the readline and writeline activities in a few of his 'Foundations' MSDN Magazine articles. One of these articles, on ActivityExecutionContext in WF, has the source code for the article available - and, more specifically, the ReadLine activity source code.
Hope this helps!
Cliff
Hi Cliff. Thanks for the source code links! I'll check them out.
McGeeky
thank you Matt.
George Elavatta
Without the ReadCommand code, this example is almost useless as you cannot run it. That link above gives out code to Read from a line but doesn't have the same inputs as the example. Anyone have example code for the ReadCommand Custom Activity?
tia!
Matt, can you make available the source code for the project demostrated in the screencast. The sample mentioned by Cliff is not it.
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