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Windows Workflow Foundation Using Visual Basic
with Ken Getz and Robert Green



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Learn how Windows Workflow Foundation makes it easy to create applications that follow a flow, or react to events and move from state to state. By providing a visual interface for designing the applications, and by binding code activities directly to the design of the application, Windows Workflow Foundation makes it easier than ever to create and maintain complex business applications.

Course includes 36+ hours of total training time...

  • 10 modules of training
  • Over 12 hours of media run time
  • Over 800 pages of printable courseware
  • Step-by-step hands-on-labs
  • Sample code
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Windows Workflow Using Visual Basic
CD-ROM

 10 CD-ROMs

$495.00  
CD-ROM & Books

 10 CD-ROMs + Printed Books

$615.00  
DVD-ROM

 1 DVD-ROM

$495.00  
DVD-ROM & Books

 1 DVD-ROM + Printed Books

$615.00  
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Course Outline (Outlines are subject to change.)

Windows Workflow Foundation Using Visual Basic

Sessions Run Time Pages
10 12 hours 800

Microsoft has provided the Windows Workflow Foundation, a set of assemblies based on the .NET Framework 2.0 (as part of the .NET Framework 3.0), along with a full-featured workflow designer built on top of Visual Studio 2005, and it’s free.

Windows Workflow Foundation makes it easy to create applications that follow a flow, or react to events and move from state to state. By providing a visual interface for designing the applications, and by binding code activities directly to the design of the application, Windows Workflow Foundation makes it easier than ever to create and maintain complex business applications.

In addition, Windows Workflow Foundation provides a runtime engine that manages your application’s behavior (that is, the “plumbing”) and enforces the workflow. The runtime makes sure the workflow behaves in the manner in which you designed and coded it.

In this course you will learn...
  • Learn the prerequisites for Windows Workflow Foundation
  • Investigate all the available workflow activities
  • Learn how to handle exceptions in workflow applications
  • Work with Delay and Listen activities
  • Learn how to use RuleSets and Policy activities in workflows
  • Provide bi-directional communications between the workflow and the host
  • Understand the difference between sequential and state machine workflows
  • Learn when and how the workflow runtime persists information about a workflow
  • Learn when and how the workflow runtime tracks information about a workflow
  • Understand how to group activities into a transaction
  • Modify an executing workflow from the host application
  • Explore how to maintain state between workflow Web service method calls
Prerequisites:

This course assumes that students have a strong programming background and have worked through the course, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005: Developing Applications, or its equivalent. This course assumes intermediate knowledge of Visual Basic, and of building Windows and Console applications using Visual Studio 2005.

Introduction to Workflow

  • What is Windows Workflow Foundation?

  • Creating Your First Workflow

  • Hosting a Workflow in a Windows Application

Handling Conditions an Exceptions

  • Introducing Conditional Activities

  • IfElse Activity

  • While Activity

  • ConditionedActivityGroup Activity

  • Replicator Activity

  • Handling Exceptions

Flow Activities

  • Introducing Flow Activities

  • Delay Activity and Handling Properties

  • Listen Activity

  • Suspend and Terminate Activities

  • Parallel and SynchronizeScope Activities

  • Handling Cancellation

Making Decisions in Workflows

  • Using Rules in Workflows

  • Using the Policy Activity

  • Setting Priorities

  • Forward Chaining

Workflow Communications

  • Calling Methods in the Host from the Workflow

  • Handling Host Events in the Workflow

  • Bi-Directional Communications

Creating State Machine Workflows

  • Introduction to State Machines

  • State Machine Activities

  • Creating a State Machine Workflow

  • Circular Navigation in State Machines

Using and Building Persistence Services

  • Introducing Workflow Persistence

  • Using the SQL Persistence Service

  • Creating a Custom Persistence Service

Using and Building Tracking Services

  • Workflow Tracking Services

  • Using the SQL Tracking Service

  • Tracking Profiles

  • Creating a Custom Tracking Service

Creating Custom Activities

  • Introducing Custom Activities

  • Creating a Simple Activity

  • Creating a More Complex Activity

  • Creating Composite Activities

Handling Workflow Transactions

  • Transactions

  • Transactions in Workflows

  • Transactions and Batches of Work

  • Compensation in Workflows

Dynamic Workflow Updates

  • Introduction to Dynamic Updates

  • Modifying a Workflow from the Host Application

  • Modifying a Workflow from within the Workflow

  • Dynamic Rule Conditions

Workflows and Web Services

  • Workflow-Based Web Services

  • Building a Workflow Web Service

  • Maintaining State in Web Services

  • Invoking a Web Service in a Workflow

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Your Instructor

Ken Getz
is a nationally renowned speaker and best-selling author who specializes in programming with Visual C# and Visual Basic. He is the author and presenter of some of most popular courses . Ken is also a senior consultant with MCW Technologies and the author or co-author of several best-selling books including Access 2002 Developer's Handbooks (with Paul Litwin and Mike Gunderloy (Sybex)), Access Cookbook (with Andy Baron and Paul Litwin (O'Reilly)), VBA Developer's Handbook (with Mike Gilbert (Sybex)), and ASP.NET Developer's JumpStart (with Paul D. Sheriff (Addison-Wesley)). Since the inception of the program, Ken has been selected each year as a Microsoft Support MVP and is a member of the INETA speaker's bureau, traveling to speak at .NET user groups throughout the country. Ken is a frequent speaker at technical conferences, including Microsoft's Tech-Ed, as well as VSLive and DevConnections. Ken is also a technical editor for Advisor Guide to Microsoft Access and Advisor Guide to Microsoft Visual Basic and is a columnist for both CoDe Magazine and MSDN Magazine.


Robert Green
is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, a Microsoft Certified Partner. Before joining MCW, Robert worked at Microsoft for 8 years, most recently as a Program Manager on the Visual Basic product team and previously as a Product Manager for several products including Visual Studio, Visual Basic, Visual Studio Tools for Office and Visual FoxPro. Prior to joining Microsoft, Robert was a Vice President and co-founder of The Information Management Group, a consulting and education services firm in Chicago. Robert has been a frequent speaker at technology conferences, including TechEd, VSLive, VSConnections and Advisor Live. His articles have appeared on MSDN and Advisor Publication’s VB.NET Advisor, and will appear in other venues as well throughout the year. Robert is the co-author and co-presenter of Visual Basic 2005 and Visual C# 2005 training, along with Ken Getz.

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