Windows Workflow Foundation is part of a bundle of new products that update .NET 2.0 into .NET 3.0. This book is one of the first to cover this important addition to .NET, and aims to provide the reader with a solid grounding in how workflows are implemented, executed, maintained and customized. By comprehensively covering WF from setup through implementation to customization readers are given a ¿one stop¿ grounding in the subject. Given the importance of this technology release, the fact that WF is a free add-on, and the book¿s broad appeal, it will be useful to almost all existing or migrating .NET 2.0 developers.

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.

A Quick Tour of Windows Workflow Foundation.- Foundation Overview.- Activities.- Hosting the Workflow Runtime.- Flow Control.- Local Services.- Event-Driven Activities.- Workflow Persistence.- State Machine Workflows.- Transactions and Compensation.- Workflow Rules.- Exception and Error Handling.- Dynamic Workflow Updates.- Workflow Tracking.- Web Services and ASP.NET.- Workflow Serialization and Markup.- Hosting the Workflow Designers.