[Bayer White]Pro WF 4.5(epub)(pdf){Zzzzz}

In Pro WF 4.5, you'll find the insight and direction for understanding how to build workflows using WF 4.5 and host them as long-running services using Microsoft's Windows Server, for on-premises work, and Azure AppFabric, for hosting workflows in the cloud. With the concept of cloud computing using Windows Azure and the maturity of Windows Server technology, workflow services can be hosted with first-class service monitoring with less overhead from a developer's perspective. Building workflows in a declarative fashion, and hosting them as services, is a natural way for building business logic that is tiered away from running applications that subscribe to them, therefore providing flexibility for when business processes change. In Pro WF 4.5, author Bayer White walks you, as the developer, through the steps and explains the concepts of declaratively modeling domain specific business processes that can be hosted and exposed as services, either on premise or as cloud services within Windows Azure. *Gives you a practical knowledge of WF 4.5, Windows Server and Azure AppFabric. *Builds a foundation for building workflows that can be exposed on-premise or in the cloud. *Shows how to use the tools available for managing workflow services. What you'll learn *Understand the changes introduced in Windows Workflow Foundation after WF 4.0 *Build workflows by understanding what tools are available so they can be hosted as services *Discover what hosting options are available with AppFabric and how to determine which one to use. *Understand how to install and configure Windows Server and Windows Azure AppFabric. *Deploy workflows as services using Windows Server and Windows Azure AppFabric. *Determine current health of running services by understanding what tools are available for monitoring. Who this book is for Pro WF 4.5 is for developers and architects interested in building healthy long-running services either on-premise or in the cloud. Table of Contents *Why Workflows? *Introducing Windows Workflow Foundation *Workflow Activities *State Machine Workflows *Flowchart Workflows *Dynamically Changing and Versioning Workflows *Patterns for Hosting Workflows *Persisting Workflows *Tracking Workflows *Re-hosting the Workflow Designer *Stateful WCF Services Using Workflows *Workflows in Azure *Workflows in Windows Server AppFabric

What you’ll learn



Understand the changes introduced in Windows Workflow Foundation after WF 4.0


Build workflows by understanding what tools are available so they can be hosted as services


Discover what hosting options are available with AppFabric and how to determine which one to use.


Understand how to install and configure Windows Server and Windows Azure AppFabric.


Deploy workflows as services using Windows Server and Windows Azure AppFabric.


Determine current health of running services by understanding what tools are available for monitoring.




Who this book is for
Pro WF 4.5 is for developers and architects interested in building healthy long-running services either on-premise or in the cloud.

Page Numbers Source ISBN: 143024383X
Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (17 December 2012)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00ACC6992

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

Best Choice 3 April 2013
By Robert J. Paulsen -
It is fine that the printed code examples are not full examples (you need to download the full examples). But I think there were better code specimens that should have been printed instead. I had to re-read some of the examples several times and infer what was happening. I feel some more "Why" questions should have been answered.

This book did manage to take me from knowing zilch to making WF do something. It is also very up to date which is important with WF (since so much has changed in 4.5).


A good reference but too many errors 7 August 2013
By ThomasWeiss -
This book is probably the best reference available on the subject - well, there aren't that many books on WF anyway - but it's kind of obvious that it has not been correctly reviewed before publication:
- flagrant errors in code snippets,
- mismatches between figures and corresponding text,
- some poor turns of phrase.
It's also unfortunate that the author sometimes explains some aspects related WF 3.x and concludes by saying this is obsolete starting from WF4!
Still, it provides serious material for anyone willing to learn WF.