Tag Archives: WCF
Responding to WF completion using the Creation Context
This is the fourth post in a series on building an Enterprise Workflow system using WF4. Previously we looked at the WorkflowServiceHostFactory, the WorkflowCreationEndpoint and how we can use these to host activities as our own services. In this post I want to explore how we can execute some action once the workflow has completed. [...]
September 23, 2011 C#, Presentations, TechEd, tenz, WCF, WF4
Tags: Enterprise Workflow, WCF, WF, WF4
Starting WF Instances using the Creation Endpoint
This post is the third in a series on building an Enterprise Workflow System using WF4. Previously we discussed how to get the activity authoring experience for workflow service authors by using a custom WorkflowServiceHostFactory to tell the WorkflowServiceHost to host a compiled activity instead of a xamlx file. Now we have a problem in [...]
September 19, 2011 C#, Enterprise Workflow, TechEd, tenz, WCF, WF4
Tags: Enterprise Workflow, WCF, WF, WF4
Hosting an Activity as a Service using the WorkflowServiceHostFactory
This is the second post in a series about Building an Enterprise Workflow system with WF4. In the previous post we discussed how the default workflow service design experience wasn’t really what we would want for an enterprise workflow system. We decided that the activity authoring experience we wanted was much better and we even [...]
September 7, 2011 C#, Enterprise Workflow, TechEd, tenz, Uncategorized, WCF, WF4
Tags: Enterprise Workflow, WCF, WF, WF4
Speaking at Tech-Ed NZ 2011 tomorrow
Stef and I are presenting the 5:45 slot tomorrow in the Marlborough room at Tech Ed NZ. The subject of the talk is Hardcore Workflow , basically a list of hurdles we had to overcome to implement enterprise workflow. I’ll post the slides and code in the next few days.
August 24, 2011 Presentations, Programming, tenz, Visual Studio, WCF, WF4
Tags: Visual Studio, WCF, WF4, Workflow
Slides and Code for Practical Workflow Services
I’ve attached the slides and code for the Practical Workflow Services talk I gave last night to the North Shore .Net Users Group. Thanks to all those that came along. Its great to see so many people interested in WF4. Practical Workflow Services.pptx Practical Workflow Services Code.zip
Speaking at North Shore .Net Users Group
I’ll be speaking at the North Shore .Net users group on 18th November details below. Workflow Services This talk will focus on the what, why and how of workflow services. We will discuss the runtime architecture of workflows, persistence, tracking, on-premise hosting in IIS and Windows Server AppFabric and how you can leverage these out-of-the-box [...]
Tech Ed NZ sessions now online
You can now watch the Tech-Ed NZ talks Stef and I did on Workflow and AppFabric on the msteched website Getting Started with Workflow in .NET 4 Taming SOA Deployments using Windows Server AppFabric
Code and slides for Dev208 at Tech Ed NZ
Here are the slides and demos for the Tech Ed NZ talk Stef and I did on Intro to Workflow 4. It includes the Approval Sample we didn’t manage to fit in. P.S. I know this blog sucks in IE, working on a fix when I get some time. DEV208-GettingStartedWithWorkflow.pptx Intro To WF Demos.zip
WF4 Services Part 2 – Correlation
Continuing on from Part 1 now we are going to add the Calculation operations to our stateful workflow service. First we need to look back and understand our previous operation “Start”. If you look at the Receive activity for the Start operation you will see that it has a property in the properties panel (F4) [...]
WF4 Services Part 1–The simple WF Service
I thought I’d do a series of posts on workflow services. There are plenty of resources out there already on how to build workflows and activities although not a huge amount has been said about workflow services. In my opinion this is the real power of workflow and its where WF4 really comes into its [...]
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