Essential Windows Workflow Foundation

Drawing on their vantage point in designing &
developing WF, Shukla and Schmidt deliver coverage of:
- The core concepts & ideas that form
the heart of WF's programming model;
- The
execution model for activities, with details of the
activity automation, bookmarking, scheduling, and the threading model
of the WF runtime;
- Advanced execution concepts,
including activity execution contexts, transactions, persistence points, passivation,
fault handling, cancellation, compensation, and synchronization;
- Hosting
the WF runtime in applications;
- The activity
component model, with details of validation, compilation, serialization,
and visualization;
- Databinding, XAML, dependency properties, and
WF program metadata;
- Declarative conditions and rules,
activity designers, and designer hosting;
- Custom control
flow patterns ranging from simple sequencing & iteration
to more complex graphs and state machines;
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Dynamic editing of running WF program instances.