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Windows Workflow Foundation (WF): Hands-On

 
Course: 514   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Build dynamic and flexible applications using Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
  • Assemble workflows with sophisticated logic using the Workflow Designer
  • Host workflows in Windows and Web applications
  • Apply local host communication services to workflow applications
  • Implement sequential and state machine workflows using WF
  • Employ the persistence and tracking services in WF

Course Benefits

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), an integral part of Visual Studio 2008, offers a programming toolkit and runtime engine to assemble workflow-enabled applications that model business processes. In this course, you gain experience developing desktop and Web applications with WF. You learn how to write code to exchange data between the host application and running workflows, create custom WF activities, and persist and track in-flight workflows.

Who Should Attend

Programmers, system analysts and anyone developing .NET applications using WF. Programming experience at the level of Course 503, "Visual Basic 2008 Programming," or Course 419, "C# Programming," is assumed.

Hands-On Training

Through a progressive case study, you gain practical experience building WF-enabled applications. Exercises, completed in either VB or C#, include:
  • Designing business logic visually with the workflow design toolkit
  • Creating sequential and state machine workflows
  • Integrating WF with Windows and Web applications
  • Modeling business processes through custom activities
  • Implementing local communication services
  • Tracking and tracing workflow history
  • Persisting workflows into SQL Server

Related Courses

 
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Jan 7 - 9, 2009
 Ottawa
Jan 28 - 30, 2009
 Toronto
Feb 18 - 20, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Mar 18 - 20, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Apr 29 - May 1, 2009
 Toronto
May 6 - 8, 2009
 Ottawa
Jun 10 - 12, 2009
 New York
Aug 5 - 7, 2009
 Toronto
Sep 2 - 4, 2009
 Ottawa

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Windows Workflow Foundation (WF): Hands-On

 
Course: 514   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course 514 Content
 

Introduction

  • Workflow application architecture
  • .NET versions and workflow

Workflow Fundamentals

Components of workflow applications

  • WF programming model
  • Workflow Runtime
  • WF hosting
  • Base activity library
  • Sequential vs. state machine workflows
  • XAML vs. code workflows

Integrating with Visual Studio

  • Exploiting WF design-time features
  • Composing workflows with the Workflow Designer
  • Implementing WF application code
  • Debugging workflows

Coding custom activities

  • Modeling discrete business processes
  • Harnessing the activity execution model
  • Developing dependency properties
  • Linking activities through activity binding

Hosting the WF Runtime

Windows Forms

  • Creating the WF runtime in the host application
  • Handling workflow runtime events
  • Marshaling workflow events onto the UI thread

ASP.NET

  • Exposing the WF runtime globally
  • Supporting multiple active users
  • Taking control of scheduling to maximize efficiency

Implementing Workflow Logic

Applying conditional logic to a workflow

  • Making decisions with IfElse
  • Looping with While
  • Crafting code and declarative rule conditions
  • Executing parallel tasks
  • Invoking WCF services from a workflow

Handling errors and cancellation

  • Detecting faults in workflows
  • Suspending workflows in transient failure
  • Restoring workflow state with cancellation

Communicating Between Workflow and Host

Designing for the local communication service

  • Mapping workflow data exchange into an interface
  • Modeling host-to-workflow events
  • Designing workflow-to-host methods
  • Creating a service implementation

Event-driven workflows

  • Listening for host messages
  • Handling external events
  • Calling external methods

Managing the workflow data life cycle

  • Providing data to a workflow on startup
  • Extracting data from a completed workflow

Activating the application

  • Creating the external data exchange service
  • Raising events into the workflow
  • Responding to workflow notifications

Designing State Machine Workflows

Modeling non-linear business processes

  • Supporting process backtracking
  • Navigating between states
  • Determining allowable transitions

Employing state machine activities

  • Initializing and finalizing state data
  • Moving to new states with SetState
  • Tracking state history

Persisting and Tracking Workflows

Saving long-running workflows

  • Engaging SQL Server persistence
  • Passivating and reconstituting workflows

Modeling in-flight workflows with tracking

  • Establishing workflow tracking services
  • Coding with the tracking API

Integrating WF and WCF

  • Creating a WCF service interface
  • Communicating with the Send and Receive activities
  • Exploiting the WorkflowServiceHost
 
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Windows Workflow Foundation (WF): Hands-On Tuition

 
Course: 514   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,390 Standard Tuition
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$ 2,124 Government Discount
 

 

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  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

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