Mon, August 14, 2006, 02:31 AM under
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As I described previously, .NET Framework 3.0 is simply adding four elements to the released .NET 2.0 bits. While these library/framework bits are released with Windows Vista at the end of the year, the VS/tools side of things is planned for release next year with Orcas. One of the technologies however will have tool support from the start (with a VS2005 add on) and that is Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). I personally think that this will lead to WF being widely adopted earlier that the others. So if you haven't checked it out yet, now is a great time to start! Below are some online resources to help you out.If I've missed a good WF link, drop me a line (as always from the link on the left).
1. The central official WF sites
on MSDN and the
NetFx3 home.
2. A bunch of articles on msdn
here,
here,
here and
here.
3. Scott has some truly great articles on his blog
here,
here,
here and
here.
4. Watch a bunch of WF webcasts. They are linked from this
blog post by Paul Andrew.
5. Plenty of
screencasts on channel9 and on our
msdn uk nuggets page (from my colleague Mike Tauly, filter nuggets by technology "Workflow Foundation").
6. In addition to any blogs you come across from the links above, examples of good blog posts are these by:
Matthew Winkler,
Moustafa Ahmed,
Nate Talbert and
Tom Lake. Also read these on “Why WF” by:
James Conard,
Dave Green and
Dennis Pilarinos.
7. For support, as with any other technology, head for the
forums.
And remember, if you are on Windows Vista 5472, the only NetFx technology with full tool support etc is WF :-)
Check out the build matrix on Tom Archer's blog