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Author: Bruce Bukovics
ISBN : 1430227214
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Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a revolutionary part of the .NET 4 Framework that allows you to orchestrate human and system interactions as a series of workflows that can be easily mapped, analyzed, adjusted, and implemented. As business problems become more complex, the need for workflow-based solutions has never been more evident. WF provides a simple and consistent way to model and implement complex problems. As a developer, you focus on developing the business logic for individual workflow tasks. The runtime handles the execution of those tasks after they have been composed into a workflow.
Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4 provides you with the skills you need to incorporate WF in your applications, using a lively tutorial style with each example illustrated in C#. This book gets you up to speed with WF 4 quickly and comprehensively. Learn about WF 4’s new designer, it’s updated programming paradigm, and the completely new set of activities that can enable and extend your workflows. This book also includes detailed coverage of how to customize your workflows and access them in a variety of ways and situations so you can maximize the advantages of this technology.
What you’ll learn
- WF 4 basics
- New activities and changes to existing activities in WF 4
- Customizing your workflows
- Accessing your workflows in a variety of ways in a variety of situations
- Using WF with Web Services and ASP.NET
- Integrating WCF and WF
Who this book is for
This book is for intermediate to advanced .NET developers who need to learn how to use the latest version of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF 4). This book is not a primer on .NET or the C# language. To get the most out of the examples presented in this book, it is necessary to have a good working knowledge of .NET 2.0 or higher. All of the examples are presented in C#.
Table of Contents
A Quick Tour of Windows Workflow Foundation Foundation Overview Activities Workflow Hosting Procedural Flow Control Collection-Related Activities Flowchart Modeling Style Host Communication Workflow Services Workflow Services Advanced Topics Workflow Persistence Customizing Workflow Persistence Transactions, Compensation, and Exception Handling Workflow Tracking Enhancing the Design Experience Advanced Custom Activities Hosting the Workflow Designer WF 3.x Interop and Migration Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation Free Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4
- Series: Expert's Voice in .NET
- Paperback: 936 pages
- Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (June 28, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1430227214
- ISBN-13: 978-1430227212
- Product Dimensions: 2 x 9.1 x 7.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Free Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4
Pro WF is everything both a WF novice and expert could ask for. While Workflow Foundation 4 could be considered a V1 product in some ways, Bruce writes about it as if he's been working with it for years. The examples he describes are well thought out and make sense from a "real application" perspective. He also does a great job explaining some of the concepts such as custom activities, and workflow services with ease and in a manner that is absorable first read through. My only criticism would be that he doesn't discuss building non-service workflow services.
If you read no other chapter in this book except one, Chapter 16 - Advanced Custom Activities is a must.
By James Alexander
While the book seems thorough, for getting your feet wet it takes too long. From my perspective, and it might well be that I'm overly used to other author styles, the flow (not intended) seems to get bogged down in minutiae instead of getting to the point. Just in the first chapter there's an awful lot of elementary notes, steps, and unnecessary details that make it seem like this is really aimed at newer developers, not just those new to Workflow Foundation. I prefer a style that covers 75%, or gives me the gist, upfront so I can jump in quickly and that progressively gets into lesser-known aspects or different ways to do the same thing as the book goes on. The "Hello World" program should not take ~8 pages. It was a little jarring.
Some glaringly obvious printing errors and even a content error (in just the first chapter) are jarring as well. Text in virtually all of the diagrams don't line up properly. If it happened once I can ignore it, but the same goof shows up in every one. In one of the step-by-step examples, a step was completely left out! I read and re-read the example to be sure and the step was never explicitly stated, yet later in the example it simply appears in the screenshot and is discussed as though it had been done. These errors in detail make it seem sloppy and rushed.
I also don't like the style of interspersing paragraphs among example steps. I prefer a step-by-step example to be just that, not pause in between steps to belabor a point that's more or less obvious, much less to insert 'sideline' commentary that's not immediately pertinent to the step. I would rather get through the example and -then- read on.
All that said I am going to keep it and use it for reference. It has worked for learning Workflow Foundation but it did not get me going very quickly (as I was hoping) and some of it was kind of a slog.
By Everett C McCune