Authoring Workflows

My latest OdeToCode article, Authoring Workflows, looks at how XAML, XOML, partial classes, and compilers all work together in Windows Workflow.

I appreciate any comments, suggestions, and other feedback about the article.

posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 9:41 PM by scott

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Sunday, March 26, 2006 7:48 PM by Rob Relyea

# XAML used for Windows Workflow

The WPF and WF teams have worked together to make sure our markup formats are both XAML.
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Sunday, March 26, 2006 8:18 PM by scott

# re: Authoring Worflows

Rob caught one XAML/WPF bug in the sample code. Copy and paste error - corrected.
Sunday, March 26, 2006 10:06 PM by Rob Relyea

# XAML used for Windows Workflow

The WPF and WF teams have worked together to make sure our markup formats are both XAML.
See a bit about...
Monday, March 27, 2006 9:18 PM by Christopher Steen

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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 5:09 PM by Brian J.

# re: Authoring Workflows

Is this purely for Windows apps or can this be applied to asp.net apps? I'm going to have to go through it with a little bit better attention to the particulars, but I'm interested in really understanding more about this.

Thanks.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006 8:18 PM by scott

# re: Authoring Workflows

Brian:

WinWF will work in ASP.NET also. There are a few samples out there if you search.
Thursday, April 20, 2006 2:47 PM by William

# re: Authoring Workflows

Can you give some quick advice. We are a C++ shop. We do have a lot of C++ code. I am trying to avoid C#. C++/CLI is very powerful. My look at VS 2005 with WinWF shows that C# is the only thing support when using the designer. I want the designer. W/o it, it will be very difficult to maintain complex state machine type workflows that I believe would benefit us. Is there a way until you get full C++ support, to do a code seperation type thing and keep the designer, but, have code in C++? Thanks.
Friday, April 21, 2006 7:06 AM by Scott

# re: Authoring Workflows

William: I think the best thing to do is ask on the MSDN Workflow forums. Some of the WinWF product managers hang out there and might give some insight as to support for other languages. (Of course, any .NET language can use WinWF and create workflows, it's just a question of how well the language will integrate in the IDE / designer).
Friday, June 09, 2006 10:01 AM by Andy Hochstetler

# re: Authoring Workflows

Fantastic info on WF! Aside from the orange book are you aware of any other decent reference info that gets to this level of detail? Thanks!!!
Friday, June 09, 2006 12:10 PM by Scott

# re: Authoring Workflows

Andy:

As far as I know, the orange book is the only material in print for WF. There are 3 or 4 WF books due out this fall.

There are a lot of good webcasts on WF. Look around the resources of windowsworkflow.net.
Monday, October 09, 2006 12:56 PM by Nathan

# re: Authoring Workflows

What a fantastic article. I usually don't comment on these kinds of things, but lately almost every time I go to research some just-below-the-surface aspect of these emerging .NET/MS technologies Google sends me to OdeToCode where I find an incredibly useful, clear and concise writeup of just the subtlety I needed to understand. Personally, I can't imagine how people like you manage to learn and apply all of this new technology and still have time to give back to the community, but however it happens, it is tremendously enabling, so thank you.
Monday, October 09, 2006 7:14 PM by Scott

# re: Authoring Workflows

Thanks, Nathan. I *really* appreciate the kind feedback.