Tonight’s meeting of the San Diego .NET user group’s Connected Systems SIG will be all about Windows Workflow 4.0.
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Meeting will be at Microsoft La Jolla office, pizza at 6:00, meeting starts at 6:30. Hope to see you there!
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Connected Systems SIG Meeting
Tuesday, January 12th
Bob Schmidt, Principal Program Manager
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Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0,
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Topic
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) 4.0, part of the new version of the .NET Framework, lets you author and run programs called "workflows." Workflows offer some interesting capabilities to the application developer – they can be designed visually (though they can also be developed in code), they can make use of traditional imperative control flow (e.g. Sequence, If, While) as well as non-traditional (e.g. Flowchart, Parallel, Pick) and custom control flow, and they can run robustly for arbitrarily long periods of time (while residing in a database and not in memory when idle awaiting input).
Whether you used WF in .NET 3.x or not, whether you consider yourself a WF4 novice or expert, this discussion will have something interesting for you. And, if you are using WF today, I’d love to discuss any feedback you have.
Speaker
Bob Schmidt is a Principal Program Manager at Microsoft on the team that ships WF. He’s mostly worked on BizTalk and WF since joining Microsoft in 2002. Prior to Microsoft, Bob worked as a developer (mostly Java) after graduating from Stanford with BS & MS degrees in computer science.