.NET 3.0 - Windows Workflow Foundation

Windows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications on Windows. It consists of a .NET Framework version 3.0 (formerly WinFX) namespace, an in-process workflow engine, and designers for Visual Studio 2005. Windows Workflow Foundation is available for both client and server versions of Windows. Windows Workflow Foundation includes support for both system workflow and human workflow across a wide range of scenarios including: workflow within line of business applications, user interface page-flow, document-centric workflow, human workflow, composite workflow for service oriented applications, business rule driven workflow and workflow for systems management.

Meeting Notes

We had 13 people attend this month's meeting. This month’s meeting was our second discussion about the .NET Framework 3.0, we discussed Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Herb Hollinger presented this topic for us, Thanks Herb! We had a good discussion and Herb had a well put together presentation outlining the key features of WF.

I'd like to thank ARS Group for supplying our group with Subway sandwiches, chips, cookies and drinks! I know everyone really enjoyed it. As always, if your company would be interested in supplying the group with food for one of our monthly meetings contact me.

As usual we gave away all kinds of free stuff at this meeting…I think everyone who attended the meeting took something home with them! (That’s pretty sweet) I’d like to thank telerik for donating an ASP.NET Controls Source Code developer license for us to giveaway.

Check the website, the presentation materials have been uploaded to our website and are available for download.

Our next meeting is Wednesday May 9^th. We’ll be putting our discussion of .NET 3.0 on hold, because a guest speaker is visiting us from Microsoft…Dave Bost is going to speak to us about the next version of Visual Studio codenamed Orcas. To find out more about Dave visit his website @ www.davebost.com.

Upcoming Meetings:

Wed, May 9 from 5 – 7 PM [Dave Bost (MS) – Visual Studio "Orcas"]

Wed, June 13 from 5 – 7 PM [Mark Davey – .NET 3.0 – WPF]

Upcoming Topics:

.NET 3.0 - Presentation Foundation
Visual Studio "Orcas"
MVC
Frameworks
BizTalk
SharePoint
Windows Vista (community launch event)
Google APIs, hacks, tips, etc.
LINQ project

If there is something that you'd like to hear about that we don't already have listed, please send it to me and we'll see about working it into an upcoming meeting.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me anytime.

Thanks.

Bart A. Robinson

http://www.evansvillednug.org