Workflow Foundation Steals the Show
Speaker: Jim O'Neil, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft
When: Tuesday January 13th, 2009 - 6:30-9PM
Where: VersaTrans Solutions, Latham, NY
Workflow Foundation (WF), released as one of the four pillars of the .NET Framework 3.0, is a very powerful technology for building robust, scalable, and flexible applications capturing complex business processes. This talk will provide a short overview of core capabilities and the underlying infrastructure - including workflow runtime, instances, and activities as well as tracking and persistence services. We'll then take a deeper dive and demonstrate techniques for integrating and extending your workflows using both local services and external services hosted in WCF.
Bio:
Jim O'Neil is a Microsoft Developer Evangelist for the Northeast District, including New England and Upstate New York. He joined Microsoft in April 2008 after nearly twelve years at Sybase as a support engineer, sales consultant, and evangelist for developer tools including PowerBuilder, DataWindow .NET, and EAServer (a J2EE application server). Jim is an MCPD and co-authored two books and multiple articles on application development using PowerBuilder. Prior to Sybase, he worked as a software engineer for MITRE and BDM International, Inc., developing prototypes and simulations for various DoD organizations.