Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0

by Bruce Bukovics

Overview

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a groundbreaking addition to the core of the .NET Framework that allows you to orchestrate human and system interactions as a series of workflows that can be easily mapped, analyzed, adjusted, and implemented.

As business problems become more complex, the need for a workflow-based solution has never been more evident. WF provides a simple and consistent way to model and implement complex problems. As a developer, you focus on developing the business logic for individual workflow tasks. The runtime handles the execution of those tasks after they have been composed into a workflow.

Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0 provides you with the skills you need to incorporate WF into your applications. This book gets you up to speed with Windows Workflow Foundation quickly and comprehensively. The practical aspects of using WF are covered in a lively tutorial style with each workflow concept illustrated in C#. This book also includes detailed coverage of how to customize your workflows and access them in a variety of ways and situations so you can maximize the advantages of this technology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590597781
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	02/21/2007
Series:	Expert's Voice In . Net Series
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	744
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

About the Author

Bruce Bukovics has been a working developer for over 25 years. During this time, he has designed and developed applications in such widely varying areas as banking, corporate finance, credit card processing, payroll processing, and retail automation. He has firsthand developer experience with C, C++, Delphi, VB, C#, and Java, and he rode the waves of technology as they drifted from mainframe to client/server to n-Tier, from COM to COM+, and from Web Services to .NET Remoting and beyond. He considers himself a pragmatic programmer. He doesn't stand on formality and doesn't do things just because they have always been done that way. He's willing to look at alternate or unorthodox solutions to a problem if that's what it takes. He is employed at Radiant Systems, Inc., in Alpharetta, Georgia, as a lead developer and architect in the centralized development group.

Table of Contents

A Quick Tour of Windows Workflow Foundation.- Foundation Overview.- Activities.- Hosting the Workflow Runtime.- Flow Control.- Local Services.- Event-Driven Activities.- Workflow Persistence.- State Machine Workflows.- Transactions and Compensation.- Workflow Rules.- Exception and Error Handling.- Dynamic Workflow Updates.- Workflow Tracking.- Web Services and ASP.NET.- Workflow Serialization and Markup.- Hosting the Workflow Designers.