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Tips

.NET Workflow

• Goin' mobile with Windows

  .NET Framework is a good start if you're interested in targeting the Windows Mobile platform, but you should also be aware of some important resources and caveats. Learn where you can find the necessary software development kits to begin programming...  Continue Reading

• Book Excerpt: Executing activities in Windows Workflow Foundation

  Windows Workflow Foundation activities encapsulate domain-specific logic and control flow patterns. This chapter download shows how these activities are executed.  Continue Reading

• Manage application processes with Windows Workflow Foundation

  Windows Workflow Foundation is part of the .NET 3.0 Framework. Using it, you can build portions of your application that orchestrate, or manage, the process flow for the use cases your application supports.  Continue Reading

• Beginning Windows Workflow Foundation development, Part 2

  This tip reexamines Windows Workflow Foundation with a closer look at tracking services, setting rules and conditions and making the most of the runtime's Base Class Library.  Continue Reading

• Beginning Windows Workflow Foundation development, Part 1

  Here we look at Windows Workflow Foundation, Microsoft's framework for building workflow-enabled applications, and examine a debate over whether WF is too complex.  Continue Reading

• Writing a WF "Hello World" application

  Windows Workflow Foundation makes it easier for developers and their colleagues to build workflow-enabled apps. What better way to get started than a "Hello World" application?  Continue Reading

• Using Windows Workflow Foundation for Web services

  In this tip, Daniel Rubio discusses Windows Workflow Foundation and how it can move beyond and enhance BPEL in service-oriented designs.  Continue Reading

• Easy grid design

  When using a grid that is bound to a dataview, you need to do all the formatting your self.  Continue Reading

• Defining custom entry points

  Explains how to manipulate the IL code to change the behavior of how a .NET program executes.  Continue Reading

• Getting environment information

  System.Environment namespace provides all the functionality to extract the environment information -- like UserName and OS version, for instance.  Continue Reading

• Reading a file using the IO library

  The IO Class Library provides the functionality for all the input/output of an app. This example demonstrates how to read from a file using FileStream & StreamReader classes.  Continue Reading