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Essential Windows Workflow Foundation View Larger Image | Dharma Shukla, Bob Schmidt
Addison-Wesley, Paperback, Published October 2006, 400 pages, ISBN 0321399838 | List Price: $49.99
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"If I were writing a workflow book, this is what I would have written."
--Jeffrey Richter
(http://Wintellect.com)
"Dharma Shukla and Bob Schmidt present workflow technology in an approachable
and yet authoritative way that is truly enjoyable."
--Clemens Szyperski
Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation
"Dharma and Bob have done a great job making this technology accessible
to any developer already versed in C#, VB, and the .NET Framework, and who wants
to achieve declarative enlightenment. Don't miss out."
--Joe Duffy
Program Manager, CLR team, Microsoft Corporation
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is a
groundbreaking approach to writing and executing programs. WF programs are
assembled out of resumable program statements called activities, which provide
encapsulation of both domain-specific logic and control flow patterns reflective
of real-world processes.
In Essential Windows Workflow Foundation, two
WF lead architects--Dharma Shukla and Bob Schmidt--offer an under-the-hood
look at the technology, explaining the why and not just the how of WF's
key concepts and architecture. Serious WF developers seeking details about
how to effectively utilize and extend the framework by writing activities
will find cogent explanations and answers here. With simple and illustrative
examples, the authors demonstrate exactly how to leverage WF's extensible
programming model to craft domain-specific programs. Drawing on their unique
vantage point in designing and developing WF, Shukla and Schmidt deliver
authoritative coverage of
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The core concepts and ideas that form the heart
of WF's programming model
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The execution model for activities, with details
of the activity automaton, bookmarking, scheduling, and the threading
model of the WF runtime
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Advanced execution concepts, including activity
execution contexts, transactions, persistence points, passivation, fault
handling, cancellation, compensation, and synchronization
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Hosting the WF runtime in applications
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The activity component model, with details of
validation, compilation, serialization, and visualization
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Databinding, XAML, dependency properties, and
WF program metadata
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Declarative conditions and rules, activity designers
and designer hosting
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Custom control flow patterns ranging from simple
sequencing and iteration to more complex graphs and state machines
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Dynamic editing of running WF program instances
Essential Windows Workflow Foundation is the
definitive resource for developers seeking an in-depth understanding of
this novel technology.
Table of Contents
About the Author
Preface
Chapter 1 Deconstructing WF
Chapter 2 WF Programs
Chapter 3 Activity Execution
Chapter 4 Advanced Activity Execution
Chapter 5 Applications
Chapter 6 Transactions
Chapter 7 Advanced Authoring
Chapter 8 Miscellanea
Appendix A Activity Automaton
Appendix B Control Flow Patterns
About the Authors
From the inception of the Windows Workflow Foundation effort, both Dharma Shukla
and Bob Schmidt have been full-time participants on the core architecture team
that established and evolved the overall philosophy and design principles supporting
WWF. The authors are responsible for specifying, designing, and developing large
portions of the technology. Both live in the Redmond, WA area.
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