Congratulations to Wren Hunt the winner of Week 2 of the Great CodeBetter Eight-Week Fall Book Giveaway
Windows Workflow
Foundation (WF) is a groundbreaking approach to writing and executing
programs. WF programs are assembled out of resumable program statements
called activities, which provide encapsulation of both domainspecific
logic and control flow patterns reflective of real-world processes.
In Essential Windows Workflow Foundation,
two WF lead architects—Dharma Shukla and Bob Schmidt—offer an
under-the-hood look at the technology, explaining the why and not just
the how of WF’s key concepts and architecture. Serious WF developers
seeking details about how to effectively utilize and extend the
framework by writing activities will find cogent explanations and
answers here. With simple and illustrative examples, the authors
demonstrate exactly how to leverage WF’s extensible programming model
to craft domain-specific programs. Drawing on their unique vantage
point in designing and developing WF, Shukla and Schmidt deliver
authoritative coverage of
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The core concepts and ideas that form the heart of WF’s programming model
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The
execution model for activities, with details of the activity automaton,
bookmarking, scheduling, and the threading model of the WF runtime
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Advanced
execution concepts, including activity execution contexts,
transactions, persistence points, passivation, fault handling,
cancellation, compensation, and synchronization
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Hosting the WF runtime in applications
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The activity component model, with details of validation, compilation, serialization, and visualization
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Databinding, XAML, dependency properties, and WF program metadata
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Declarative conditions and rules, activity designers, and designer hosting
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Custom control flow patterns ranging from simple sequencing and iteration to more complex graphs and state machines
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Dynamic editing of running WF program instances
Essential Windows Workflow Foundation is the definitive resource for developers seeking an in-depth understanding of this novel technology.
Next week's drawing will be for a copy of Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries
Thanks to everyone who has linked to us so far.. I've only had twenty-three entries, so you chances of winning a
book over the next six weeks are good. Get your entry to me
today!
-Brendan