H.Workflow Foundation (WF)

When to use Workflow Foundation

1. When you are building Application that involves complex data flow and decision making (Like Approval) logic that are hard to manage in conventional ways.

2. SharePoint is very well known application that uses Workflow for Managing Content Approval.

3. When you need to build complex rule base Wizard kind of things

4. When you have very complex business rule processing (see case study section for details)

Videos

1. Getting Started Videos

   1. Creating Your First Sequential Workflow

   2. Executing workflows

   3. Working with data in workflows

   4. ITPro-MSDN-winvideo-mdb_wf4_04.wmv

   5. HDI-ITPro-msdn-winvideo-Activity_designers.wmv

   6. HDI-ITPro-msdn-winvideo-Workflow_services(1).wmv

   7. HDI-ITPro-MSDN-winvideo-mdb_wf4_07.wmv

   8. HDI-ITPro-MSDN-winvideo-mdb_wf4_08.wmv

   9. DI-ITPro-MSDN-winvideo-mdb_wf4_09.wmv

   10. HDI-ITPro-MSDN-winvideo-mdb_wf4_10.wmv

   11. HDI-ITPro-MSDN-winvideo-mdb_wf4_11.wmv

   12. HDI-ITPro-MSDN-winvideo-mdb_wf4_12.wmv

Read some overview Tutorials

Hands On Lab

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms741723(v=vs.90).aspx

Italian Railway Police Automates its Document Management and Workflow

1. Case Studies By Microsoft Workflow Team

endpoint.tv - WF4 in the Real World - Microsoft Support ASP.NET MVC Wizard Framework

endpoint.tv - Workflow in the Real World @ Red Prairie

Beginners :

Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation Step by Step (Microsoft Windows Step by Step) by Kenn Scribner

Expert

Pro WF: Windows Workflow in .NET 4

Guru

Essential Windows Workflow Foundation by Dharma Shukla

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/9854.windows-workflow-wf-books.aspx

Discussions (FAQs)

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