Pro WF

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxix

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2. A Quick Tour of Windows Workflow Foundation

   Pages 1-28

3. Foundation Overview

   Pages 29-62

4. Activities

   Pages 63-125

5. Hosting the Workflow Runtime

   Pages 127-165

6. Flow Control

   Pages 167-215

7. Local Services

   Pages 217-239

8. Event-Driven Activities

   Pages 241-283

9. Workflow Persistence

   Pages 285-319

10. State Machine Workflows

    Pages 321-357

11. Transactions and Compensation

    Pages 359-406

12. Workflow Rules

    Pages 407-445

13. Exception and Error Handling

    Pages 447-472

14. Dynamic Workflow Updates

    Pages 473-502

15. Workflow Tracking

    Pages 503-547

16. Web Services and ASP.NET

    Pages 549-579

17. Workflow Serialization and Markup

    Pages 581-619

18. Hosting the Workflow Designers

    Pages 621-684

19. Back Matter

    Pages 685-709

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Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a groundbreaking addition to the core of the .NET 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 a workflow-based solution 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 3.0 provides you with the skills you need to incorporate WF into your applications. This book gets you up to speed with Windows Workflow Foundation quickly and comprehensively. The practical aspects of using WF are covered in a lively tutorial style with each workflow concept illustrated in C#. 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.

• .NET
• .NET Framework
• C#
• Debugging
• Web Services
• Windows
• design
• security

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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