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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.

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Print | posted @ Monday, August 07, 2006 2:30 AM

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by Jun Meng at 8/11/2006 2:26 PM
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?
  
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by scott at 8/12/2006 2:54 AM
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.
  
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by Anil at 8/15/2006 3:55 AM
Scott,
Excellent overview of Windows Workflow. Thanks a Million!

  
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by Oleksandr Moskalyuk at 9/11/2006 1:31 PM
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!
  
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by Jeff Gwynn at 1/19/2007 12:21 AM
Thank you Scott - very helpful!
  
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by samir at 10/9/2009 8:40 AM
Short and to the point article for any beginner to WF. Kudos!
  

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