Windows Workflow Foundation tutorials, mostly contributed by
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In this FAQ author quickly run through and get a feel of how WWF (Windows Workflow foundation) will help you in making custom work flows in your project.
One of the major changes in Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 is the Activity Designer. The new Activity Designer is based on WPF.
Workflow Foundation 4.0 is introduced a significant amount of change from the previous versions of the technology. This article will be the first in a series of articles. In this article I will be discussing about the introduction to Custom Activity Development. In next articles, I will be concentrating more on the different aspects of Custom Activity Development.
Workflow Foundation 4.0 is introduced a significant amount of change from the previous versions of the technology. This article will be the second in a series of articles. In this article we will be discussing about the Bookmark and related topics used in Custom Activity Development.
Workflow Foundation 4.0 is introduced a significant amount of change from the previous versions of the technology. This article will be the third in a series of articles. In this article we will be discussing about how to pass data from host application to workflow without using bookmarks.
Workflow Foundation 4.0 is introduced a significant amount of change from the previous versions of the technology. In WF4.0, we are using Extensions for communication between the host and workflow, the workflow and its child activities and between child activities. There are two types of extensions in WF4.0, in this article we will look into the normal extensions.
Workflow Foundation 4.0 is introduced a significant amount of changes from the previous versions of the technology. One of the main features of workflow is Persistence. In this article we will be discussing about Persistence.
Workflow Foundation 4.0 is integrated with WCF and WPF. WF 4.0 uses WPF for activity designers and gives a very good support for custom activity designers with full WPF functionality. In this article we will look into the WCF integration to WF4.0.
Workflow Foundation 4.0 has very good support for custom activity development. We can have our own custom activity with very good look and feel. When you define a custom activity, one of the main requirements is how to manage the associated properties in the property grid.
We already discussed about Persistence and Extensions in workflow foundation 4.0. Persistence is the way of storing the current state of a workflow into an instance store. Extensions are special classes for sharing data among child activities, workflow and Host application. In case of normal Extension, the data shared using the Extension won't be stored to the instance store as part of the Persistence.
Workflow Foundation 4.0 is introduced a significant amount of change in the Activity Designer. In WF4.0, Activity Designers are defined using WPF. Property management and display is one of the important aspects of a custom Activity Designer.
Workflow Foundation 4.0 has very good support for custom activity development. One of the areas in custom activity development is validating the properties and its values in design time. In this article we will discuss about various validation options available with workflow foundation 4.0.