Professional Windows Workflow Foundation

by Todd Kitta

Book Overview

If you want to gain the skills to build Windows Workflow Foundation solutions, then this is the book for you. It provides you with a clear, practical guide on how to develop workflow-based software... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470053860
• ISBN13: 9780470053867
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Wrox Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A guide to a complex version of WF

Thank goodness Microsoft revamped WF in 4.0! This is a thick topic. It's super useful once it's conquered, so I understand why a lot of developers around me have avoided the topic. This book still stands as the best WF for 3.0 oriented book I found. Without it I couldn't have conquered WF to the degree I have. So if you're caught in the 3.0 or 3.5 framework, and want to use Workflow, this is a book that you'll find as a great reference to "how do I do that again". Conquer the launching-NASA-shuttle of a technology Microsoft put out [a while back]!

Good book for Visual Studio 2005/Framework 3.0

This book has a really good workflow introduction, and the author does a really good job with hosting workflows in ASP.NET and using the workflow for page flowing. However, like all .NET framework 3.0 books currently available, they do not include Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas beta 2) improvements in hosting and external communications with Framework 3.5 send and receive activities. Update in March, 2008: The status of workflows for Microsoft is currently in transition between Framework 3.0 and 3.5. Framework 3.0 workflows are extremely complicated, and communications with a workflow host (e.g., WinForms, Webforms, or WCF services) and a client have dramatically changed with Framework 3.5. Unfortunately, even Microsoft MVPs admit that very little is known about the new methodology for local and remote communications and with the WF/WCF integrated send and receive activities.Currently, Microsoft has no consistent model for the amazing technology among the workflow implementations in BizTalk (Framework 3.0), SharePoint 3.0 (Framework 3.0), and Visual Studio 2008 (Framework 3.5). Until there is a unified, consistent, and well-documented paradigm for incorporating workflows into applications, this reviewer will not implement workflows to a large extent in production applications, but sparingly will use workflows in a minor way to provide experience only.