Henrik Westergaard Hansen Developer & Platform Strategy Microsoft Denmark

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1 Henrik Westergaard Hansen Developer & Platform Strategy Microsoft Denmark

2 Windows Foundations

3 What is a workflow? A set of activities that coordinate people and / or software... Example activities. EscalateToManager CheckInventory organized into some form of workflow. Like a flowchart. Or a state diagram.

4 Work flow types Sequential Workflow Step1 Step2 Sequential structure prescribes processing order Prescriptive, formal Automation scenarios Flowchart metaphor Event Event State Machine Workflow State1 State2 External events drive processing order Reactive, event-driven Skip/re-work, exception handling Graph metaphor Rule1 Data Rule2 Rules-driven Activities Step1 Step2 Rules + data state drive processing order Data-driven Simple Conditions, complex Policies Constrained Activity Group

5 Sequential workflow, Persistence, Tracking, Controls, Webservice calls

6 What are Activities? An activity is a step in a workflow Has properties and events that are programmable within your workflow code Has methods (e.g. Execute) that are only invoked by the workflow runtime Think of Forms & Controls Activity == Controls Workflows == Forms Two broad categories of activities Basic steps that do work Composite manage a set of child activities

7 Windows Communication Foundation ASMX Interop with other platforms.net Remoting Extensibility Location transparency Attribute- Based Programming Enterprise Services WS-* Protocol Support WSE Message- Oriented Programming System.Messaging

8 WCF high level view Client WSDL A B C Service C B A A B C Be A B C Be Address(A) Binding(B) Contract(C) Behavior(Be) Where? How? What? Local Only Details

9 Address, Contract, Binding, Behavior Datacontracts, Operationcontracts Servicecontracts

10 Windows Presentation Foundation Best way to deliver superior user experiences Improve usability, productivity, and satisfaction Increase developer productivity Expand product relevance Sets new bar for a modern client platform Unified developer platform for applications, documents, and graphics Integrated, vector-based composition engine Support for declarative and procedural programming

11 XAML, New York Times, Interative Designer

12 Windows Cardspace Enables federated claims-based identity Any identity provider can integrate using public WS-* protocols Identity provider support for: Windows Server with Active Directory PingID for Linux, UNIX, Apache, others More to come New credential common dialog One-click login Streamlines user registration Mitigates some common attack vectors (e.g. phishing)

13 Cardspace login at netfx3.com with unmanaged card

14 Ressources Community site Main MS site us/netframework/default.aspx Free online training: tail.aspx?offerpriceid= Sudoku app that uses WPF, WF and WCF: ons/entry4543.aspx

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