Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4

ISBN-13: 9781430227212 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 936 str.

Bruce Bukovics

Opis

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.

Spis treści

1. A Quick Tour of Windows Workflow Foundation
2. Foundation Overview
3. Activities
4. Workflow Hosting
5. Procedural Flow Control
6. Collection-Related Activities
7. Flowchart Modeling Style
8. Host Communication
9. Workflow Services
10. Workflow Services Advanced Topics
11. Workflow Persistence
12. Customizing Workflow Persistence
13. Transactions, Compensation, and Exception Handling
14. Workflow Tracking
15. Enhancing the Design Experience
16. Advanced Custom Activities
17. Hosting the Workflow Designer
18. WF 3.x Interop and Migration

O autorze

Bruce Bukovics has been a working developer for over 25 years. During this time, he has designed and developed applications in such widely varying areas as banking, corporate finance, credit card processing, payroll processing, and retail automation. He has firsthand developer experience with C, C++, Delphi, VB, C#, and Java, and he rode the waves of technology as they drifted from mainframe to client/server to n-Tier, from COM to COM+, and from Web Services to .NET Remoting and beyond. He considers himself a pragmatic programmer. He doesn't stand on formality and doesn't do things just because they have always been done that way. He's willing to look at alternate or unorthodox solutions to a problem if that's what it takes. He is employed at Radiant Systems, Inc., in Alpharetta, Georgia, as a lead developer and architect in the centralized development group.