Tag Archives: WF
Workflow Service Tracking Viewer
If you are working with Workflow Services (.xamlx) and you want an easy way to see live tracking from your workflow your only out-of-the-box option right now is AppFabric which doesn’t show live data and the UI can be a little slow. The Workflow Service Tracking Viewer (beta) uses SignalR and a custom tracking participant [...]
Help make Workflow Foundation better
Ron Jacobs and the workflow team are looking for feedback and ideas for WF vNext. Help make it better by adding your suggestions or voting for some others.
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
Activities vs WF Services: In search of the ideal authoring experience
This is the first post in a series about Building an Enterprise Workflow system with WF4. Hosting our Workflows When we were building our enterprise workflow solution at our company, it was during the development of .Net 4 and we were heavily involved in the Microsoft TAP (early adopters) program. We looked at all the [...]
Building an Enterprise Workflow system with WF4
Recently Stef and I presented the session “Hardcore Workflow” at Tech-Ed New Zealand in which I gave a demo of how to create your own enterprise workflow system in WF4. I had been deliberating for a while on whether I should reveal a lot of the techniques we used but I came to the conclusion [...]
Code and slides for TechEd NZ 2011–DEV 404 Hardcore Workflow
Below are the slides and the code for the talk Stef and I did at Teched NZ 2011. I hope to do a post in the future explaining this in more detail. EnterpriseWorkflowDemo.zip DEV404-HardCoreWorkflow4.pptx
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 [...]
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