Pro WF

1. Front Matter

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2. A Quick Tour of Windows Workflow Foundation

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   Pages 1-43

3. Foundation Overview

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   Pages 45-69

4. Activities

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5. Workflow Hosting

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6. Procedural Flow Control

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7. Collection-Related Activities

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8. Flowchart Modeling Style

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9. Host Communication

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10. Workflow Services

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11. Workflow Services Advanced Topics

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12. Workflow Persistence

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13. Customizing Workflow Persistence

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14. Transactions, Compensation, and Exception Handling

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15. Workflow Tracking

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    Pages 565-627

16. Enhancing the Design Experience

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17. Advanced Custom Activities

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18. Hosting the Workflow Designer

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19. WF 3.x Interop and Migration

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20. Back Matter

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Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a revolutionary part of the .NET 4 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 workflow-based solutions 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 4 provides you with the skills you need to incorporate WF in your applications, using a lively tutorial style with each example illustrated in C#. This book gets you up to speed with WF 4 quickly and comprehensively. Learn about WF 4’s new designer, it’s updated programming paradigm, and the completely new set of activities that can enable and extend your workflows. 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.

• ASP
• ASP.NET
• C#
• Exception Handling
• Windows Workflow Foundation
• control
• database
• programming
• technology

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.

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