- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewer
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1: A Quick Tour of Windows Workflow Foundation
- CHAPTER 2: Foundation Overview
- CHAPTER 3: Activities
- CHAPTER 4: Workflow Hosting
- Understanding the WorkflowInvoker Class
- Using the WorkflowInvoker Static Methods
- Using the WorkflowInvoker Instance Methods
- Understand the WorkflowApplication Class
- Using the WorkflowApplication Class
- Understanding the ActivityXamlServices Class
- Using the ActivityXamlServices Class
- Invoke Workflows from ASP.NET
- Managing Multiple Workflow Instances
- Summary
- CHAPTER 5: Procedural Flow Control
- CHAPTER 6: Collection-Related Activities
- CHAPTER 7: Flowchart Modeling Style
- CHAPTER 8: Host Communication
- CHAPTER 9: Workflow Services
- CHAPTER 10: Workflow Services Advanced Topics
- CHAPTER 11: Workflow Persistence
- The Need for Workflow Persistence
- Understanding Workflow Persistence
- Understanding WorkflowApplication Persistence
- Understanding the SqlWorkflowInstanceStore
- Using the SqlWorkflowInstanceStore with WorkflowApplication
- Understanding WorkflowServiceHost Persistence
- Using the SqlWorkflowInstanceStore with WorkflowServiceHost
- Summary
- CHAPTER 12: Customizing Workflow Persistence
- CHAPTER 13: Transactions, Compensation, and Exception Handling
- Understanding Default Exception Handling
- Implementing the Example Workflow
- Understanding the TryCatch Activity
- Using the TryCatch Activity
- Understanding the TransactionScope Activity
- Using the TransactionScope Activity
- Using a Host Transaction
- Understanding Compensation
- Using the CompensableActivity
- Manually Triggering Compensation
- Understanding the CancellationScope Activity
- Summary
- CHAPTER 14: Workflow Tracking
- CHAPTER 15: Enhancing the Design Experience
- Understanding Activity Designers
- Supporting Activity Properties
- Supporting Expanded and Collapsed Modes
- Supporting a Single Child Activity
- Supporting Multiple Child Activities
- Supporting the ActivityAction Activity
- Understanding Validation
- Using Validation Attributes
- Adding Validation in Code
- Using Constraints for Validation
- Manually Executing Validation
- Implementing Activity Templates
- Summary
- CHAPTER 16: Advanced Custom Activities
- CHAPTER 17: Hosting the Workflow Designer
- Understanding the Workflow Designer Components
- Implementing a Simple Workflow Designer
- Executing the Workflow
- Loading and Saving the Definition
- Displaying Validation Errors
- Adding Activities to the Toolbox
- Providing Designer Metadata
- Tracking the Selected Activity
- Modifying the Context Menu
- Locating the Arguments
- Summary
- CHAPTER 18: WF 3.x Interop and Migration
- APPENDIX A: Glossary
- APPENDIX B: Comparing WF 3.x to WF 4
- Index
WF 3.x to WF 4 Architectural Differences
The following table summarizes the major architectural differences between WF 3.x and WF 4.
WF 3.x to WF 4 Activities
The following table compares the list of WF 3.x and WF 4 standard activities. In cases where there isn’t an exact match between WF 3.x and WF 4, I list the closest match that could be used to provide similar functionality or solve a similar problem.
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