Some of my earlier posts alluded to the announcements that were made at PDC - Microsoft's release of a platform-level workflow technology, known as Windows Workflow Foundation. I was fortunate enough to participate in the early adopter program and be exposed to this exciting new framework several months ago. While there may have been more splash around some of the other product announcements, this one is - to me - the most exciting as I believe it will have the biggest impact on how we utilize service oriented architectures across the enterprise.
I'm announcing here my first contribution to the community; the Service Activity Generator. This utility, currently an alpha release, enables service (WCF) developers to expose their services as custom WWF Activities without doing anything more complicated than adding an additional attribute to the service operation. Download the alpha release, along with a walkthrough that will guide you through building your first automatically-generated Service Activity, and submit your feedback on my blog.