This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.

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

Amazon.com® Reader Reviews (Ranked by Helpfulness)

Average Amazon.com® Rating:  Based on 1 Ratings

Two thumbs up! - 2009-02-14
Reviewer Rating:
I have wanted to learn WF for quite a while now and this book has been an incredible asset for me. I am currently running through Hour 5 and am hungry to plow through the remainder of the material.

The labs I have seen so far have been very instructive and the pace has been perfect - neither overly simplified nor overly complex.

I only have two complaints and they are very minor complaints. The first is that I have encountered numerous typos in the text and in the samples, including the URL of the authors WWW site where the samples must be downloaded from. The second is the lack of a glossary. Acronyms are tossed about which are pretty new to me such as BPMS, BAL, BPM, and BAM. While not critical to learning the material, it sure would be nice if I could flip to a glossary to refresh my memory as to the meaning of these acronyms from time to time.

Overall I give this book, and the author, two thumbs up. This book has been instrumental for me in learning Windows Workflow Foundation and this will be one of the few Teach Yourself-style books that I anticipate reading cover-to-cover..

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