Yesterday I was a little disappointed when the PDC news didn't include workflow capabilities and design tools for WPF. Apparantly another keynote was scheduled for today and today beta1 of Windows Workflow Foundation and the Microsoft Expression Suite were announced. You can read about the WWF and the Expression Suite on Microsoft PressPass. Links to more information are available from there. I particularly like the note that WWF is already integrated into Office 12 and SharePoint. Apparently a preview was given on SharePoint which included "significant enhancements to Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies including integrated workflow capabilities built upon Windows Workflow Foundation directly inside familiar Office system applications, bringing together document management, records management and Web content management for unified, integrated, scalable enterprise content management (ECM)". BizTalk vNext will also build upon WWF.
This PDC has already raised my bar of expectation a lot. I can only hope Microsoft can live up to it. Let's see if I can play around with some of the bits right now.
Posted
Sep 14 2005, 07:46 PM
by
Carlo Poli