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WF Courseware

WF Courseware
WF Courseware
Item# wf-courseware
$120.00


Overview
Authored and field tested by Andrew Troelsen, Best-Selling .NET author, this three day instructor led course delivers comprehensive coverage of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF).

Contents
Course Manual, Lab Manual, Lab Exercises, Lab Solutions, and Slides

Length
4 days

Target Audience
Engineers, Developers, Programmers, and Software Development Professionals

Course Abstract
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is an API introduced with .NET 3.0 which allows you to execute and monitor business processes workflows directly in managed code. In this course, attendees will gain a clear understanding of the use of workflows, activities, and the visual tools which allow you to design them. We will also examine how to interact with the WF runtime engine, create custom activities and survey the integrated feature WF set.

Learning Objectives
  • Understand the role of WF
  • Use standard activities and build custom activities
  • Work with sequential and state machine workflows
  • Understand the WF architecture / intrinsic WF feature set


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Details

Introducing WF
  • Understand the role of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
  • Learn the building blocks of a WF enabled application
  • Understand the role of WF ‘activities’
  • Survey the intrinsic WF activities
  • Work with the WF designers of Visual Studio
  • Host workflow instances using the WF runtime engine
  • Pass arguments to a workflow instance
  • Examine ways to customize the hosting process


WF Activity Programming Model
  • Configure activities using declarative rule conditions.
  • Know the role of the Policy activity and declarative rule sets.
  • Handle exceptions within a workflow instance.
  • Learn to build custom activities.
  • Overview the three approaches to authoring a workflows / custom activities.


Local Services
  • Learn the role of local services
  • Call external methods from a workflow instance
  • Handle host events within a workflow instance


WF Tracking Services
  • Understand the usefulness of the WF tracking service
  • Learn to track workflow, activity and user events
  • Know the role of the SqlTrackingService type
  • Learn how to obtain tracking information programmatically
  • Know the role of tracking profiles


State Machine Workflows
  • Understand the role of state machine workflows
  • Investigate the state machine activity types
  • Understand the relationship between states, events and state transitions
  • Examine the state machine designers of Visual Studio


WF Persistence Services
  • Understand the role of the WF persistence service
  • Register the persistence service with the WF runtime
  • Learn to persist a workflow instance to a SQL Server database


WF Transaction Services
  • Know the role of the TransactionScope activity
  • Handle custom transactions via the IPendingWork interface
  • Understand the role of (and support for) compensation


A 10 unit minimum is required on courseware purchases.

WF Courseware, WF Curriculum, WF Training Guide