{"id":614,"date":"2007-06-08T02:14:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/09\/pageflow-on-windows-workflow-foundation\/"},"modified":"2013-03-15T18:09:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T03:09:54","slug":"pageflow-on-windows-workflow-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/08\/pageflow-on-windows-workflow-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"PageFlow on Windows Workflow Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of using Windows Workflow foundation for driving the UI behavior of an application is a very natural one: in fact, it came out endless times during last year&#8217;s briefings with the enterprise early adopters and on internal discussions. There was even a <em>major <\/em>customer that was very serious&nbsp;about it (of course I can&#8217;t mention the name): I remember last year, at the Boston TechEd, going after the WF and&nbsp;WPF guys on behalf of that customer for finding out what was the situation and feeding requirements. In the end the feature didn&#8217;t make it into the product, however it has been just released <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/?linkid=6923851\">in form of sample<\/a>. For you that may even be better, in a certain sense: source code and comprehensive documentation&nbsp;will allow you to take a peek at how the product&nbsp;group designed and implemented a kind of workflow&nbsp;that is different from the ones available out of the box (sequential &amp; state machine).&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/mwinkle\">Matt<\/a> from my team has worked hard on this: he gave a session on the subject during this year&#8217;s TechEd and he just wrote a comprehensive <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/mwinkle\/archive\/2007\/06\/07\/introducing-the-pageflow-sample.aspx\">blog post<\/a> on the subject. Knowing how passionate he is about this, I am sure he will devote more posts to it in the future: I suggest keeping an eye on it \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea of using Windows Workflow foundation for driving the UI behavior of an application is a very natural one: in fact, it came out endless times during last year&#8217;s briefings with the enterprise early adopters and on internal discussions. There was even a major customer that was very serious&nbsp;about it (of course&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,65,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture-ws","category-wf","category-windows-workflow-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/614\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}