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About This Course

Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

This two-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to build and configure a Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) solution.

Audience Profile

This course is intended for application developers who know how to create applications in Visual Studio 2005 or 2008. The course does not require previous experience creating workflow-based solutions.

Prerequites

Before attending this course, students should have intermediate experience developing applications by using previous versions of Microsoft Visual Studio at level 200.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Explain Windows Workflow Foundation concepts and features
• Create sequential workflows
• Create state machine workflows
• Modify workflows at run time
• Implement conditional branching in a workflow
• Define and execute rule sets
• Forward chain rules
• Change rules at run time
• Call methods on the host process
• Handle events from the host process
• Consume services from a workflow
• Publish a workflow as a service
• Create a custom activity
• Create a custom composite activity
• Define custom activity layout
• Customize activity serialization
• Create a custom runtime service
• Hydrate and dehydrate workflows
• Monitor workflows
• Track workflows
• Handle faults in a workflow
• Handle cancellations in a workflow
• Create and manage transactions in a workflow
• Create and handle compensations