Windows Workflow Hosting

Hosting Windows Workflow is a new article covering the WorkflowRuntime class and the WF services. The article shows how to configure and use the scheduling, persistence, and tracking services provided by Windows Workflow.

Feedback is appreciated.

posted on Sunday, August 06, 2006 10:30 PM by scott

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Friday, August 11, 2006 7:26 AM by Jun Meng

# re: Windows Workflow Hosting

Another great article! Thanks :)

Question:
1) you mentioned "tracking channel" a little bit. Should we write code to open a tracking channel, or workflow runtime gets tracking profile and creates a channel automatically?

2) When a tracking profile is updated, a new tracking channel will be created?
Friday, August 11, 2006 7:54 PM by scott

# re: Windows Workflow Hosting

Hi Jun:

Sorry I wasn't clearer about channels.

Tracking channels are a means of communication between the workflow runtime and the tracking service. Our code never has to worry about channels (unless we are writing a custom tracking service).

A new channel is open for every workflow instance, actually. When updating a profile future workflow instances will have new channels tracking with n ew profiles.

Hope that makes some sense.
Monday, August 14, 2006 8:55 PM by Anil

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Scott,
Excellent overview of Windows Workflow. Thanks a Million!

Monday, August 14, 2006 9:45 PM by Christopher Steen

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Monday, September 11, 2006 6:31 AM by Oleksandr Moskalyuk

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I am beginner in Windows Workflow and your article was VERY usefull for me.
Simple and clear examples and their descriptions.
Great job.
Thanks a lot!
Thursday, January 18, 2007 4:21 PM by Jeff Gwynn

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Thank you Scott - very helpful!