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Spice Up Your Applications with WF 4

FT17. Spice Up Your Applications with WF 4 . M att Winkler P rogram Manager mwinkle@microsoft.com http://blogs.msdn.com/mwinkle. Where This Talk Fits. Visual Studio. IIS Management. Activities. PowerShell. Application Host. WCF Runtime. WF Runtime. Persistence. Monitoring.

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Spice Up Your Applications with WF 4

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  1. FT17 Spice Up Your Applications with WF 4 Matt Winkler Program Manager mwinkle@microsoft.com http://blogs.msdn.com/mwinkle

  2. Where This Talk Fits Visual Studio IIS Management Activities PowerShell Application Host WCF Runtime WF Runtime Persistence Monitoring Storage Process Host

  3. WF in 3 minutes or less • WF is three things • Activities • Runtime • Tooling • To use WF in your app • Build activities • Create workflows which use those activities • Let the runtime deal with running the activities

  4. Embedded Process Engine

  5. Embedded Process Engine • Separate execution logic from application • Modular grouping of logic • Standard vs. Premium Customer order processing • Process will be updated without redeploying the application • Coordinate asynchronous, potentially long running work

  6. customer

  7. Loading Workflow Foo.dll Compile via XAML Build Task <Activity x:Class=“Foo" > <x:Members> <x:Property Name="argument1“ Type="InArgument(x:String)" /> <x:Property Name="argument2” Type="InArgument(x:String)" /> </x:Members> C# (DynamicActivity) Activity x = ActivityXamlServices.Load(xamlFile); WorkflowInvoker.Invoke(x, new Dictionary … ); Execute with DynamicActivity

  8. WorkflowInvoker Foo WorkflowInvoker.Invoke(new foo)

  9. WorkflowApplication Foo Foo Foo varwa = new WorkflowApplication(new Foo) wa.Run() wa.Cancel() wa.Unload() wa.Persist() wa.ResumeBookmark()

  10. WorkflowServiceHost WorkflowServiceHost Foo Foo Foo

  11. WF Persistence Basics Host WorkflowApplication wa.Persist() Idle

  12. Collecting Workflow Events Workflow Runtime Scheduler Tooling raises events Tracking Provider Tracking Profile add Monitoring Data notify Tracking Participant Application Host

  13. embedded process engine demo

  14. Custom Activities

  15. Custom Activities • Activities are the mechanism to do the important work in your domain • Customize the authoring components for the logic in your application • Compositional model allows you to create the right level of abstraction for authoring • Replicate the real world in your building blocks (custom composites)

  16. Customer –xRM Application Framework Client • Declarative development of relational business applications using flexible models and dynamic services. • Business Application Services • Multi-tenant controller • Event pipeline, solution sandbox, audit, data quality, client sync, indexing • Robust web services • Enterprise-scale, role-based deployment Forms / Views Workflow Security Application models in metadata Entities Multi-tenant controller SQL

  17. customer

  18. Activity Authoring CodeActivity AsyncCodeActivity Activity NativeActivity DynamicActivity

  19. Control Flow Styles A Parallel • Execution pattern for composite activities • Any activity can be the root • Control flow activities can be composed Activity 1 B Activity 1 PickBranch PickBranch PickBranch C Activity 2 Activity 2 Approve Reject Delay (TimeOut) Activity 3 Activity 3 Action A Action B Action C D Activity 4

  20. ActivityAction • Creating a mechanism to let your workflow authors to plug custom logic into your activity at prespecified “holes” • Consumers extend an activity in a natural way, through more activities Approval Payment Process Order Receive Order Reserve Inventory Ship Order

  21. Custom Activities demo

  22. Customized Authoring Environment

  23. Customized Authoring Environment • Visualization of process • Visualization of instance information • User construction or editing of process definition • Customize the visualization of an activity

  24. customer

  25. Custom Activity Designers Surface key data Display contained elements ExpressionTextBox WorkflowItemPresenter WorkflowItemsPresenter

  26. Designer Rehosting Items Host Editing Context Services Designer

  27. Customized Authoring Environment demo

  28. MS Research – Trident

  29. Summary • Highlighted 3 different aspects of WF in your app • Showed key types for using WF • The activity model provides a lot of power, write custom activities! • Designer rehosting brings workflow visualization into your application • Highlighted some interesting applications built by our internal customers

  30. Next Steps • File… New Project… Workflow • Other talks @ PDC • Workflow Internals, next session, this room. • WF Services, WCF and AppFabric talks tomorrow • Chalk talks • Come see us in the booth!

  31. Q & A

  32. Breakouts • FT25: Microsoft Application Server Technologies: Present and Future - Tuesday, 1:30, 515A • FT04: Windows Workflow Foundation 4 from the Inside Out– Wednesday, 3:00 502A • FT17: Spice Up Your Applications with WF 4  - Wednesday, 1:30, 502A • FT13: What’s New for Windows Communication Foundation 4  - Wednesday, 10:00 Petree Hall D • FT14: Workflow Services and “Dublin”  - Wednesday, 11:30 Petree Hall D • FT27: Application Server Extensibility with Microsoft Project Code Name “Dublin” and Microsoft .NET 4 - Thursday, 1:45 Petree Hall D • Scaling Your Data Tier with Microsoft Project Code Name “Velocity” - Thursday, 1:45 403AB • CLI06: Networking and Web Services in Silverlight  - Wednesday, 3:00 Hall E 151 • SVR15: Microsoft BizTalk Server Futures and Roadmap  - Tuesday, 3:00 502A • SVR16: Connecting Applications with the Microsoft BizTalk Enterprise Service Bus  - Tuesday, 4:30 515B • FT55: Developing REST Applications with the .NET Framework – Wednesday, 11:00 Hall E 151

  33. Chalk Talks • Monitoring and Managing “Dublin” Services • State Machine Workflow Futures • Migrating Workflows from WF 3.5 to WF 4 • Visual WF Tracking and Debugger Rehosting

  34. Hands On Labs • Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET 4 • Introduction to Workflow Services in .NET 4 • What’s new in WCF 4? • Introduction to Microsoft Project Code Name “Velocity” • Introduction to BizTalk Server 2009 Demo: Process Automation Solution with SharePoint & WF • Introduction to the BizTalk ESB Toolkit: Providing Service Integration Agility

  35. Web Resources • WCF Developer Center • http://msdn.microsoft.com/wcf • http://msdn.microsoft.com/wcf/rest • WF Developer Center • http://msdn.microsoft.com/wf • BizTalk Developer Center • http://msdn.microsoft.com/biztalk • AppFoo Developer Center • http://<> • Team Blog: • http://blogs.msdn.com/endpoint • Nicholas Allen’s Blog • http://blogs.msdn.com/drnick • Matt Winkler’s Blog • http://blogs.msdn.com/mwinkle

  36. Resources • Trident • http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/tools/trident.aspx

  37. xRM @ PDC 2009 • Visit us at the booth in the pavilion • Try hands on labs • Extending CRM5 and Solutions Packaging • Building CRM5 Data Visualizations and Dashboards • Attend sessions

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