PDC Sessions Round 2

The PDC website is doing a monthly countdown to the event by publishing session abstracts as they lock down. The July update is the second in this series and adds 16 new sessions to the list, including two on workflow.

Workflow Foundation: Futures

The next version of Workflow Foundation provides a rich platform for declarative programming. Learn about the new data flow model, rich composition model, and control flow styles, including: parallel execution, state machine, and flowchart. See how easy it is to build workflows with the new Visual Studio workflow designer and the new activities library, including activities for SharePoint and PowerShell. Hear how Workflow Foundation integrates with other declarative frameworks like Windows Presentation Foundation and Windows Communication Foundation.

Workflow Services

This session covers significant enhancements in Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) to deal with the ever increasing complexity of communication patterns. Learn how to use WCF to correlate messages to service instances using transport, context, and application payloads. Learn to use the new WF messaging activities to model rich protocols and how to use WCF as a rich default host for your workflows and expand the reach of WF with features like distributed compensation. See how service definition in XAML completes the union of WF and WCF with a unified authoring experience that dramatically simplifies configuration and is fully integrated with Microsoft Internet Information Services activation and deployment.

You can get the full list of sessions published so far here.