Plans changed yet again….sigh. Tonight was the Universal Studio conference party. I had really looked forward to going. There was an accident down near where the buses were staging near the conference center and they couldn’t get the buses moving. I stood in line in front of the hotel for about an hour. Two or three buses had managed to take some people but when I got into the line it was already wrapping around the side of the building.
Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation
So Microsoft has finally found purchase in the WWF…or rather they have invented a new meaning to the acronym.
WWF was announced this morning in the keynote as a new framework to provide APIs to create, manage, and implement workflow in your applications. This is just a “helper” and is not a product. It’s an extension to the .Net framework and is itself very extensible.
This breakout session dealt with how you can stage the migration of your existing applications using COM+ and MSMQ to WCF. I won’t get into great detail with this one, thought it was a very good session.
Andy Milligan from Microsoft presented along with another man I didn’t catch the name for.
He presented a scenario where a company had legacy VB6 components hosted in COM+ and a Windows Service that was taking messages off the queue and processing them.