Sams Teach Yourself Windows Workflow Foundation in 24 Hours

by Eisenberg, Robert
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ISBN: 9780321486998
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Overview

In just 24 sessions of about an hour, you'll learn how to build robust, efficient business workflows with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Using a straightforward, step-by-step approach, each lesson builds the real-world foundation you need to succeed with WF from the ground up.

Filled with hands-on code examples, this book walks you through creating every type of workflow supported by .NET 3.5's powerful new version of WF. One step at a time, you'll discover how to host workflows, manage workflow lifecycles, integrate with Web services and WCF applications, create custom activities, and moreeverything you'll need to solve real-world problems with WF

Step-by-step instructions carefully walk you through the most common WF questions, issues, and tasks.

Q&As help you build and test your knowledge.

Notes point out shortcuts, solutions, and potential problems to avoid.

New terms are clearly defined and explained.

Learn how to...

  • Understand the value of workflows and their role in general .NET and advanced business process management systems
  • Run workflows from and exchange data with .NET applications
  • Create sequential, state-machine, and data-driven workflows
  • Define multi-level approval workflows that execute in parallel and escalate
  • Develop rulesets and manage them from SQL databases
  • Track your workflows to make them more agile and governable
  • Use Dynamic Update to change running workflows
  • Work with exceptions, compensation, and transactions
  • Expose workflows as Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services and call Web services from workflows via WCF
  • Expose workflows as Web services and call Web services from workflows
  • Create basic, queued, event-driven, and composite custom activities
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Eisenberg, Robert
  • ISBN: 9780321486998
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.00 x 1.40
  • Number Of Pages: 597
  • Publication Year: 2009

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