.Net Windows Workflow Foundation: Overview, Business Applications, Technology – get to know the workflow way: history and current status, when to use, what advantages it offers

1. Introduction to Windows
Workflow Foundation
Andrei Oros CTO | Flowster Solutions
andrei.oros@flowster.de
hello@andreioros.com

2. Agenda
Overview
Business Applications
Technology
Demo

3. Overview
Workflow Foundation
.net technology for designing,
hosting & running processes as
workflows

4. Overview
History
➔ introduced with .net 3
➔ .net 3.5 added WCF integration
➔ with .net 4, WF received a major update /
rewrite (10x - 100x performance increase)
➔ .net 4.5 - many Designer improvements

5. Overview
Designed for
➔ Long Running Business Logic
➔ Often Changing Processes
➔ Transparency regarding Process Model and Execution
➔ Business Process Management Engines

6. Business Applications
Workflow Oriented Scenarios
➔ Banking
➔ HR - Hiring Process
➔ Accounting Software
➔ Purchasing
➔ IT Infrastructure Management

7. Technology
Execution Insights
➔ Customizable Track Data
➔ Workflow Level Logging
➔ Activity Level Logging
➔ Real-Time

8. Technology
Designer - available in Visual Studio

9. Technology
Designer - ReHostable

10. Technology
Designer - Workflow Types
➔ Sequential
➔ State Machine
➔ Flowchart

11. Technology
Activity Libraries
➔ Base Activities from Microsoft
➔ Easy to build new Activities

12. Technology
Workflow Host
➔ WCF, WPF, Console Apps, ASP Websites, ..
➔ Workflow Management 1.0
➔ IIS Extension - “Dublin”

13. Technology
Scalability
➔ Vertical
➔ Horizontal
CPU, RAM, ..

14. Technology
Scalability
➔ Vertical
➔ Horizontal
➔ Workflow Persistence
CPU, RAM, ..
Process Persistency
DataStore

15. Demo
WF Designer
➔ ReHosted Designer
➔ Load System Activities
➔ Custom Meetup API
Activity Library
➔ Meetup API Workflow
➔ WF Execution Log
➔ WF Execution Output

16. Thank you.
References
➔ Windows Workflow Foundation
◆ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd489441(v=vs.110).aspx
➔ The Workflow Way
◆ http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd851337.aspx