PDC Sessions Round 3
Fifty new PDC sessions showed up on Friday, including several touching on WCF and WF. Here is a selection along with some of the previously available sessions.
"Oslo:" Managing Software + Services Applications
Increasingly, applications will consist of services that run both on-premises and in the cloud. Learn how Microsoft is simplifying the deployment and management of Software + Services applications.
Hosting Workflows and Services in "Oslo"
"Oslo" builds on Windows Workflow (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to provide a feature-rich middle-tier execution and deployment environment. Learn about the architecture of "Oslo" and the features that simplify deployment, management, and troubleshooting of workflows and services.
"Oslo:" Customizing and Extending the Visual Design Experience
"Oslo" provides visual tools for writing data-driven applications and services. Learn how to provide a great experience over domain-specific schemas, and explore the basic user model, data-driven viewer construction, user-defined queries, and custom commands. See how the design experience itself is an "Oslo" application and is driven by content stored in the "Oslo" repository.
A Lap around "Oslo"
"Oslo" is the family of new technologies that enable data-driven development and execution of services and applications. Come and learn how to capture all aspects of an application schematized in the "Oslo" repository and use "Oslo" directly to drive the execution of deployed applications.
"Oslo:" The Language
"Oslo" provides a language for creating schemas, queries, views, and values. Learn the key features of the language, including its type system, instance construction, and query. Understand supporting runtime features such as dynamic construction and compilation, SQL generation, and deployment. Learn to author content for the "Oslo" repository and understand how to programmatically construct and process the content.
"Oslo:" Repository and Schemas
"Oslo" uses schematized data stored in the "Oslo" repository to drive the development and execution of applications and services. Tour the schemas and see how user-defined content can be created and related to them. Learn how to utilize platform schemas, such as worflow, services, and hosting. Also, learn how to extend the repository and how to use repository-extended SQL database services to support critical lifecycle capabilities such as versioning, security, and deployment.
Workflow Services: Orchestrating Services and Business Processes
See how simple it is to use cloud-based workflow to perform complex orchestration across on-premises and cloud services. Also, learn how to run processes in the cloud while simplifying your system and increasing reliability in a distributed environment.
Extending Windows Workflow Foundation v.Next with Custom Activities
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) coordinates and manages individual units of work, encapsulated into activities. The next version of WF comes with a library of activities, including Database and PowerShell. Learn how to extend this library by encapsulating your own APIs with custom activities. See how to compose those basic activities into higher level units using rules, flowchart, or state machine control flow styles. Learn how to extend beyond WF control styles by building your own. Learn how to customize and re-host the workflow authoring experience using the new WF designer framework.
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.
Windows Workflow Foundation: Futures
The next version of Windows 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 Microsoft 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.
The complete list of sessions is available at the PDC website.