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WF4 State Machine in the Multi-Targeting Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Platform Update 1

By Maurice de Beijer

Lots of people like to use the state machine model workflow as this is a very flexible way of working that often fits in with how real work processes work. With WF3 we had a state machine workflow but with WF4 this was not ready in time and as a result we didn’t get to use this model. There where a few whitepapers on how to do a state machine using a flowchart and for simple cases those worked quite well. Microsoft also released an implementation of the state machine for WF4 on CodePlex and while that worked quite well … Continue reading WF4 State Machine in the Multi-Targeting Pack for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Platform Update 1

Workflow Services and Windows Phone 7

By Maurice de Beijer

Today I did a fun presentation at the Engineering World Conference in the Netherlands on using the Windows Phone 7 with a Workflow Service hosted on Windows Azure. The sample application, that is complete with all source on CodePlex over here, consists of an expense app on the phone and an ASP.NET MVC site hosting the workflow service. The PowerPoint presentation can be found here. It was a fun session on a fun event   [f1] [f2]

Running Workflow Services on Windows Azure

By Maurice de Beijer

Windows Azure might not support the WCF and WF4 hosting parts of Windows AppFabric bit that doesn’t mean you can’t run workflow services on Windows Azure. After all a workflow is just a .NET 4 type and Windows Azure runs the .NET framework. As a result running a workflow service is quite easy once you know how to configure it.   The web.config file The first problem is that the machine web.config of an Azure virtual machine is different than that on a regular machine. As a result, by default, IIS doesn’t know what to do with a WorkflowService type, … Continue reading Running Workflow Services on Windows Azure