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2 Contents About the Author About the Technical Reviewer Acknowledgments Introduction xv xvii xix xxi m Chapter 1: Why Workflows 1 Business Processes 1 Workflow Activities 3 Defining Requirements 5 Model Driven Development 7 Component Diagrams 7 Use Case Diagrams 8 Class Diagrams 9 Sequence Diagrams 10 Activity Diagrams 11 Building an Activity Diagram 12 Workflow Technology 18 Summary 19 HChapter 2: Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation 21 WF History 22 Platform Update 1 23 vii

3 WF Components 26 Workflow Runtime 26 Defining Workflows 44 Workflow Designer 46 Persistence 56 Tracking Workflows 56 A Lap Around WF Activities 57 Summary 62 ^Chapter 3: Windows Workflow Activities 63 Activity Basics 64 Data Management 65 Activity Life Cycle 67 Authoring Activities 67 Testing Activities 80 Communicating with Activities 83 Implementing Activities 86 Debugging Activities 86 Error Handling 92 Summary 106 ^Chapter 4: State Machine Workflows 109 State Machine Components 110 State Machine Workflow 110 State 111 Transitions 116 Final State 118 Auto-Connect 119 Auto-Insert 119 Debugging State Machine States 119 viii

4 State Machine Behavior 119 Transition Requirement 120 Building State Machine Workflows 131 State Machine Host 134 Summary 157 BChapter 5: Flowchart Workflows 159 Flow Activities 159 Flowchart 160 FlowDecision 162 FlowSwitch <T> Activity 164 Using Entity Framework with WF 180 ForEach <T> Implementation 181 Flowchart Composite Activities 183 Bookmarks for Flowchart Workflows 190 Pick Activity 190 Summary 203 ft Chapter 6: Versioning and Updating Workflows 205 Persistence Maturity 205 Side-by-Side Workflow Execution 207 Adding Definition Identities 214 Updating Running Workflow Instances 222 Step 1: Preparing the Update Map 224 Step 2: Apply the Update Map 224 Step 3: Updating the Workflow Instance 225 Saving a DynamicUpdateMap to File 226 Preparing a Workflow for Update 243 Knowing What Can be Updated 252 Updating Activities 255 Summary 256 ix

5 HChapter 7: Building Custom Workflow Activities 257 Activity Base Classes 257 Getting Started 259 Code Activity 261 Activity Arguments 266 Asynchronous Activities 284 Native Activities 289 Scheduling Activities 290 CacheMetadata 293 Distributing Custom Activities 293 Summary 294 ^Chapter 8: Persisting Workflows 295 Persistence Behavior 295 Non-Persisted State 297 Persistence Patterns 298 SQL Server Persistence 298 SQL Server Data Store 300 SQL Server Profiler 302 SqIWorkflowlnstanceStore 304 ConnectionString Property 304 PersistableldleAction Property 305 DefaultlnstanceOwner 323 HostLockRenewalPeriod 327 InstanceCompletionAction 327 WorkflowServiceHost 328 ServiceBehavior Element 329 Persistence Participant 330 Summary 355 X

6 mchapter 9: Tracking Workflows 357 Tracking Overview 357 Tracking Records 358 Tracking Profile 363 Tracking Participant 366 Workflow/Service Host Tracking 374 Filtering Tracking Records 385 Activity State 390 Custom Data Tracking 392 Record Annotations 394 ETW Tracking Participant 394 Summary 398 & Chapter 10: Rehosting the Workflow Designer 399 Rehosting Components 400 WF Designer 400 WF Toolbox 402 WF Properties 403 Rehosting WF Controls in XAML 411 Viewing Workflow XAML 413 Gaining WF4.5 Designer Features 416 Rehosting Arguments 424 Managing Workflows 432 Setting Up the Ul for Managing Workflows 433 Workflows for Client Applications 441 Dynamic Business Logic 446 Summary 450 HChapter 11: Stateful WCF Services Using Workflow 451 Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 451 WCF Fundamentals 452 Service and Data Contracts 454 xi

7 Combining WCF and WF 455 Workflow Management Service (WMS) 492 Summary 499 Chapter 12: Workflows in Windows Azure 501 Windows Azure 501 Azure Portal 502 Cloud Services 506 Data Management 508 Azure Development Tools 509 Azure Workflows 511 Workflow Hosting Patterns 511 Hosting Non-Durable Workflows 512 Queuing Data forworkflows 516 Cloud Workflows 528 Configuring Azure Storage 529 Publishing to Azure 530 Workflows in Blob Storage 535 Service Bus and Workflows 543 Hosting Durable Workflows 547 Workflow Manager (Workflow 1.0 Beta) 561 Summary 562 ^Chapter 13: Hosting Workflows in Windows Server 563 Architectural Components 563 Hosting Services 564 IIS Manager 566 AppFabric Windows Services 566 Persistence Data Stores 567 Monitoring Data Stores 568 xii

8 Deployment Types 568 Single Server Deployment 569 Server Farm Deployment 569 Installing AppFabric 570 Upgrading 571 Hardware Requirements 571 Software Requirements 571 Installation and Configuration 572 Deploying to AppFabric 587 AppFabric Dashboard 594 Action Pane 596 Persisted WF Instances 598 Monitoring WF Instances 601 Understanding WF Metrics 611 Purging Tracked Events 614 Workflow Host Management 614 Auto-Start Feature 616 Summary 616 Index 617 xiii

"Charting the Course... MOC B Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure. Course Summary

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