Hi, a little new to the windows workflow stuff so go easy :) I wish to design a workflow host environment that has high availability - a minimum of 2 WF runtime hosts on separate hardware both pointing to the same persistance or tracking SQL database. I am looking for a pattern whereby I can asynchronously create new workflow instances...
I'm having some conceptual trouble on figuring out how to best implement this... I want to create a custom Activity class for Windows Workflow. The activity has to call out to a third party library method that itself runs another process asynchronously and may take anywhere from seconds to many hours to complete. This library offers th...
MS CRM Dynamics 4.0 incorporates the MS WF engine. The built in designer allows the creation of sequential workflows whos activities have native access to CRM entities. Is it possible to: Create a state machine workflow outside of CRM (i.e. in visual studio) and import it into CRM? Have this workflow access the CRM entities? ...
I am looking for a few books, blogs or articles on WWF. I've read the books below; however, I need resources that cover the topic in more depth. I am especially interested in local services, persistence, tracking and viewing Workflows from a website. Any suggestions?? Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 3.0 Essential Windows Workflow Foun...
I am working on a project with peek performance requirements, so we need to bulk (batch?) several operations (for example persisting the data to a database) for efficiency. However, I want our code to maintain an easy to understand flow, like: input = Read(); parsed = Parse(input); if (parsed.Count > 10) { status = Persist(parsed); ...
Can anyone explain what is windows workflow and how can we use in the work organization. ...
I have a Windows Workflow application that uses classes I've written for COM automation. I'm opening Word and Excel from my classes using COM. I'm currently implementing IDisposable in my COM helper and using Marshal.ReleaseComObject(). However, if my Workflow fails, the Dispose() method isn't being called and the Word or Excel handles ...
Hello, Is there a way to use MS WF interactively in ASPNET MVC? Thanks ...
Some things are easier to implement just by hand (code), but some are easier through WF. It looks like WF can be used to create (almost) any kind of algorithm. So (theoretically) I can do all my logic in WF, but it's probably a bad idea to do it for all projects. In what situations is it a good idea to use WF and when will it make thing...
I have a simple business workflow with the following conditions Users need to change the workflow itself using a desinger The workflow is a long rinning workflow, so it will be serialized Is there a way to automate the task of versioning different workflow assemblies? ...
In Sharepoint designer's workflow editor I wish to retrieve the username/name of the work flow initiator (i.e. who kicked it off or triggered the workflow) - this is relatively easy to do using 3rd party products such as Nintex Workflow 2007 (where I would use something like {Common:Initiator}) - but I can't seem to find any way out of t...
I was looking at WF and was wondering if it would be best to use the StateMachine workflow to follow a users state. i.e. user is anonymous, user is known but not authenticated, user is known and authenticated. would this be a good way to go about solving this regular issue? ...
I've found a CTP for such integration from Microsoft, but it seems it never was officially released and supported. Also - Do you know a list of WWF to BPEL activities mapping? Thanks ...
I'm not completely sure I understand the workflow way of doing things, but if it's a pipeline n filter style model I should be able to pass data (even strings) from one activity to another. Does anyone know how to do this? Bonus points for a video! I hope this is possible. If WF were the same as my idea of it then it would be extremel...
In particular, I am interested in: 1) Getting up a free environment setup to do workflows. 2) How to use existing workflow items/states and what is involved in that. Thanks! ...
How to unit test the windows workflows? ...
Just want to learn 'Windows workflow' designer in .net right from the basics, can anyone suggest a good link please thanks sandeep ...
Does anyone have any experience hosting the Windows Workflow designer surface? I've seen a couple of rather difficult to follow examples on MSDN, but not much else - certainly nothing that offers an explanation into the process of hosting WF that is clear or easy to read... Are there better resources out there for hosting WF (or a workfl...
Hi, I realize this is a quite general question, but I am wondering about the performance impact of implementing business logic with WF contra imperative code in fairly large enterprise system. I would like to hear others experiences in this regard. ...
Can we somehow extend the RuleSetDialog class and host in our windows application? ...