Presenting Windows Workflow Foundation - Softcover

Andrew, Paul; Conard, James; Woodgate, Scott; Flanders, Jon; Hatoun, George; Hilerio, Israel; Indurkar, Pravin; Pilarinos, Dennis; Willis, Jurgen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0672328488 ISBN 13: 9780672328480

Publisher: Sams, 2005

Synopsis

Presenting Windows Workflow Foundation is a premium reference that provides information on a key part of WinFX, providing universally accessible and consistent workflow technology for the Windows platform. Windows Workflow Foundation delivers an API as part of WinFX and a workflow designer hosted in Visual Studio 2005.

The Windows Workflow Foundation supports development of both sequential and state-based workflow involving both human and system interaction. Sequential workflow is a map of activities that may be in series or parallel. State-based workflow is a state machine where events cause transitions. Rules can be specified that drive decision making in a workflow and can be updated easily at runtime. Workflow can be created as a model and executed inside many host applications including Windows Forms, console applications, or Web applications.

• Key Scenarios that can be developed with Windows Workflow Foundation include:
• Document management: The steps involved in the review and approval of shared documents or other content.
• Line of business application: The processing flow or business logic in an extensible part of the application.
• Website page flow: The flow of state variables between web pages.
• IT management: Handling of common systems management processes.
• Decision making logic: Where complex business logic is well described by a sequential or state diagram.
• Consumer: A common series of steps for consumer PC usage.

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About this title

About the Author:

Paul Andrew is the technical product manager for Windows Workflow Foundation. He has also worked for Microsoft both as a developer evangelist and as a developer consultant.

James Conard is an architect evangelist with Microsoft's Developer and Platform Evangelism (DPE) group. James is responsible for driving the early adoption of Windows Workflow Foundation with key ISVs and customers.

Scott Woodgate is a group product manager responsible for technical product planning and worldwide readiness of BizTalk Server and Windows Workflow Foundation.

Jon Flanders is an industry-leading author and instructor of in-depth developer training materials at DevelopMentor.

George Hatoun is a program for Workflow in Microsoft Office. He defines Office workflow engine requirements and the integration of Windows Workflow Foundation into Windows Sharepoint Services.

Israel Hilerio is a program manager on the Windows Workflow Foundation team in charge of forms integration and designer re-hosting.

Pravin Indurkar is a program manager on the Windows Workflow Foundation team and is responsible for the state machine workflows in Windows Workflow Foundation.

Dennis Pilarinos is a technical program manager on the Windows Workflow Foundation team. He is responsible for defining and creating the developer tools and parts of the programming model for Windows Workflow Foundation.

Jurgen Willis is a program manager with the Windows Workflow Foundation team. He is responsible for the rules technology and condition-driven activities.

Synopsis:

Workflow is a set of activities through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion where these activities might be executed by a human or a system. Workflow provides a way of describing order of execution and dependent relationships between pieces of work. Understanding of workflow is increased by displaying it graphically. Windows Workflow Foundation is a key part of WinFX, providing universally accessible and consistent workflow technology for the Windows platform. Windows Workflow Foundation delivers an API as part of WinFX and a workflow designer hosted in Visual Studio 2005. Presenting Windows Workflow Foundation is intended to hit shelves as WinWS is announced. The book will give programmers a sense of what is possible with this new technology in a way that gives them simple examples and an easy reading style. It is not intended to cover all aspects of the technology but rather to give developers a confidence that they know enough to use WinWS in a future development project and to give them the understanding to know when that is appropriate.

The net is we want to impart information for software architects to do appropriate technology selection and we want to provide an easy introductory how-to for developers trying it out.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sams
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0672328488
• ISBN 13: 9780672328480
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312