About a year ago I wrote a blog post where I described a simple WYSIWIG rule editor that can be used to manage rules applied using WF rule engine. After that I received a few responses with comments and questions about using WF rule engine in .NET applications. Apparently this technique was considered...
Last few weeks I spent much time playing with Workflow Foundation. The goal was to evaluate WF programming model for the purpose of our projects. We are currently using home grown workflow manager, it helped us quit database deadlocks (yes, we went through sins of long running transactions), but it’s...
In my previous post I showed a simple WYSIWYG rule editor (that internally uses Windows Workflow Foundation rule engine) that does not serialize rules using CodeDom notation. I wrote this editor simply to demonstrate the concept, and its code combined both rule editing, rule serialization and sample...
I’ve been searching for a rule engine for our projects, and the one that suits our needs is a rule engine that comes with Windows Workflow Foundation. Although Microsoft does not advertise WF rule engine as an independent component that can be used in workflow-less applications, nothing prevents...
At the end of January the SOA & BPM conference was in held in Seattle . I intended to go there but I didn't get authorisation to go there from my boss unfortunately. There was a lot of information on BizTalk 2009, Dublin, WCF & WF. Lucky for me and I guess for a lot of other people that couldn't...
The BizTalk Server Developer Center has been updated to highlight integration with WF and WCF. Finally Microsoft has written a view articles on how they will include and use WF an WCF in BizTalk. Some things of BizTalk will cover the same features (e.g. BRE is very close related to WF). Reference Application...
Eilene Hao, Program Manager for SharePoint Workflow finished her complete blog series about developing SharePoint workflows in Visual Studio (VS). Lots of people are asking a lot of questions about this issue and a lot of them seem to have common points of confusion. With so much information out there...