eek! A little birdie tipped me off on reading this very informative and forward looking post on the changes coming to Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in .NET 4.0 and the experience in Visual Studio 2010. While I don't know when the beta of Visual Studio 2010 will drop :), I know that you'll hear more about it at Microsoft TechEd in LA this week.
Please do read the blog post (it is lengthy but well written and ripe with guidance for new and seasoned Workflow developers). Here's an excerpt for what is coming from the team (in addition to the improvements in the plumbing - config, messaging, tracing/diagnostics)...
"we will be releasing a few additional items via the blog and the WF 4 Dev Center: David Chappell is writing a new whitepaper that introduces folks to The Workflow Way in .NET 4, the WF team is working on WF 3.x to WF 4 migration guidance documents that will help WF 3 developers understand the impact and options available with WF 4, and we will start doing blog posts and webcasts in the next month to aide developers in evaluating WF 4 – with some aimed at existing WF developers (discussing how existing WF developers should think about the new WF model) and others assuming no prior WF experience (simply introducing the new concepts and features)."
What do you think?