2月24日
Building Workflow Driven Services with .NET Today and Tomorrow
Speaker: Jon Flanders
Technical Offerings Track, talk 4
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Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a programming model, set of tools, and runtime environment which allows you to write declarative and reactive programs on the Windows platform. WF is part of the .NET Runtime, and first appeared in .NET 3.0. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) is also a programming model, set of tools, and a runtime that first appeared in .NET 3.0. It is a framework for building applications that can communicate with each other over varied network protocols.
In .NET 3.5 these models came closer together to allow easy integration, including allowing WF instances to use WCF to communicate to remote endpoints, as well as to allowing WF instances to become the service implementation for WCF endpoints. This is accomplished by two new Activities: ReceiveActivity and SendActivity, as well as a new hosting infrastructure for service endpoints.
In this talk we'll look at both sides of this integration to give you an overview of how to build WF/WCF applications. We'll also touch on the new features and improvements coming in WF 4.0.
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