WWF

WWF Custom Persistence Service

Igor Milovanovic — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:22:00 GMT

I have just seen that Manuel Foerster has started blogging about Windows Workflow Foundation. He has written an article about custom persistence services for windows workflow foundation. (As the default persistence service only works with SQL Server, you might consider writing your own persistence service, if you have to support some other persistence medium and/or database.)

You can read his article about custom persistence services for WWF here.

[1] Custom Workflow Persistence Service
[2] http://www.manuelfoerster.net

WWF Article on theserverside.net

Igor Milovanovic — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 07:48:00 GMT

There is a good introductory article about Windows Workflow Foundation from Brian Noyes on theserverside.net. This article describes the basics of Windows Workflow Foundation and demonstrates the use of it’s features through a sample application walkthrough.

[1] http://www.theserverside.net/news/thread.tss?thread_id=39535

Can you define a workflow?

Igor Milovanovic — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 16:08:00 GMT

What is actually a workflow (in terms of standards or definitions)? Every one who can tell one definition by heart, gets a free beer from me. Come on. You have 30 seconds to think. Is it a business process or a work process description? What about activities, participants and automatisation?

If that was a peace of cake for you, here is another quiz: Can you tell me the meaning of following acronyms: BPM, WfMC, WML, Petri-Net, BPMI, BPMN, Wf-XML, UML, XPDL, YAWL, OASIS, OMG, WPS, ITIL? Are these standards description languages or organisations?

Not that easy, isn't it?

There are many organisations and standards which try to define a workflow. Microsoft uses the similar approach ("make your own definition" ;-) with the windows workflow foundation:

A workflow is a set of activities stored as a model which describe a real world process.

This definition tries to reflect the actual role of a WWF as a framework and an API for developing the workflow centric applications, however this might not be always the definition which all the people are accustomed to. This can lead to several misunderstandings, as I realized today after speaking about the windows workflow foundation in front of a very heterogeneous audience…

[1] www.bpmi.org

[2] www.wfmc.org

[3] www.windowsworkflow.net

WWF Hands on Labs - Stand Alone Workflow Designer

Igor Milovanovic — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:23:00 GMT

Nach meinem Vortrag bei der .NET User Group in München habe ich einige Fragen per Email im Bezug auf den "Stand Alone"- Workflow Designer bekommen. Der Beispiel stammt aus den Microsoft WWF Hands on Labs (Lab 10). Hier ist der Download-Link:

Hier ist eine Übersicht aller WWF Hands on Labs:

[1] Windows Workflow Foundation - Hands On Labs Beta 2

WWF Vortrag .NET UG München

Igor Milovanovic — Wed, 22 Feb 2006 13:18:00 GMT

*Update* Hardy hat die Folien zum Vortrag online gestellt:

Download Folien (2.2 Mb)

Hier ist eine WWF Link-Sammlung zum gestrigen Vortrag:

Ressourcen

http://www.windowsworkflow.net
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workflow
http://www.WindowsWorkflow.net/Forums

Artikel:

Windows Workflow Foundation für Entwickler
Creating a Custom Activity
Which Style of Workflow when?
Cutting Edge : Windows Workflow Foundation,
Simplify Development with WWF

Tools und Code Samples:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/toolsamp/default.aspx

Installation (Windows SDK ist optional, nur notwendig für WCF)

Installationsanleitung

Windows Workflow Foundation Articles

Igor Milovanovic — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:55:00 GMT

Here are some interesting articles about windows workflow foundation:

Which Style of Workflow when? , Dave Green- An article about the diffferent workflow styles in windows workflow foundation.
Cutting Edge : Windows Workflow Foundation, Dino Esposito - Building a help desk workflow solution.
Simplify Development with WWF, Don Box and Dharma Shukla.

[1] Windows Vista Developer Center - WWF
[2] http://www.windowsworkflow.net

Windows Workflow Foundation - Vortrag

Igor Milovanovic — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 16:53:00 GMT

Ich werde am 21.02. bei der .NET Developers User Group in München einen Vortrag zu diesem Thema halten.

Veranstaltungsdaten :

Thema: Windows Workflow Foundation
Wer: Igor Milovanovic, Mercury Computer Systems AG
Wann: Dienstag, 21.2.2006, ab 18:00 Uhr

Wo: Fa. TESIS, Baierbunner Str. 15, 81379 München, 5. Stock

Weitere Informationen und Anfahrtsbeschreibung

http://www.munichdot.net/Events/395.aspx

Anmeldung:

http://www.munichdot.net/Events/Users_Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fEvents%2f395.aspx

Vielen Dank an Hardy Erlinger für die Einladung :-)

[1] http://www.munichdot.net
[2] http://www.dodned.de

Windows workflow foundation hands on...

Igor Milovanovic — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 07:58:00 GMT

Carsten Witte has posted a small instalation guide for windows workflow foundation on his blog. You will need one of Visual Studio 2005
versions, WinFX runtime community preview, Windows SDK community preview and Visual Studio 2005 WWF Extensions.

[1] Installing Windows Workflow Foundation - Beta 2.
[2] The official Microsoft WWF Site
[3] WWF - Activity Gallery