Glenn Block

PageFlow reborn

Many of you noticed that WCSF 2.0 did not ship with PageFlow. Early during the development of WCSF 2.0, we decided to break out the PageFlow application block and recipes into a separately downloadable package. There were several reasons foremost of which was that we wanted to make it easier to use Pageflow on it's own without having to install WCSF. A secondary reason was that we had requests from the community around extending their wanting to extend PageFlow.

Unfortunately, due to resource constraints, we were not able to complete the breakout of PageFlow before we shipped. However, as I mentioned, we have been completing this work out-of-band. We're now nearing completion of the source and will be uploading it shortly. The docs will still need more work and we'll be shipping them some time after the source ships.

What's in the new PageFlow?

New stand alone PageFlow guidance package that works on Visual Studio 2008! Does not require WCSF.
New XmlPageFlowProvider that does not depend on Windows Workflow Foundation
Migrated PageFlowWithShoppingCart Quickstarts to Visual Studio 2008
Updated Dependencies to GAT/GAX 1.4

Coming soon to WCSF Contrib!

Published Apr 22 2008, 12:39 AM by gblock

Filed under: PageFlow, patterns and practices, wcsf, WCSFContrib

Comments

Neil Mosafi said:

Sounds interesting, but you haven't actually mentioned what PageFlow is in the first place (for those of us not familiar with it!)

I will google... :-)

# April 22, 2008 4:31 AM

gblock said:

@Neil

Try here.

www.codeplex.com/.../View.aspx

# April 22, 2008 5:09 AM

Brandon said:

Hi Glenn,

The WCSF page you linked to above indicates that the PageFlow framework is capable of composition (Page Flow Composition, under Scenarios and Requirements). Are there any examples or documentation about how such composition is supposed to work? I was wondering if you might be able to point me in the right direction!

TIA!

# May 6, 2008 11:12 AM

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Glenn Block is the Technical Product Planner for the Client UX program at patterns & practices. As Product Planner he is responsible for driving the vision and creation of p&p client deliverables including the Web Client and Smart Client software factories. Prior to joining Microsoft, Glenn has lived in various roles being "in the trenches" with developers, including being responsible for the overall architecture and technology direction. He has worked in both large and small organizations building enterprise systems for financial services, manufacturing, and print & mail on multiple platforms including .NET and Java. His technology passions are in software frameworks, architecture and systems integration. He resides with his wife and 3 year old daughter in Seattle (his other passion).