Less is More

re: Less is More

Ron Jacobs — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:44:10 GMT

@Dave - You should check out our Team Blog blogs.msdn.com/.../workflowteam

Jurgen (our boss) has written some posts about where we are investing and how these offerings fit together.

re: Less is More

Dave — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:35:10 GMT

I am trying to make the distinction between AppFabric and Workflow 1.0 Beta. AppFabric doesn't install Service Bus, but AppFabric has configuration and monitoring interface wrapped up into IIS7. If I were to recommend to my clients to use one of these services which should I recommend. It is not clear which direction Microsoft is going with these two seemingly competing service offerings. If I were considering either Workflow 1.0 Beta or AppFabic AND required access controls will ACS work with both. All of the services would be hosteed on-premise.

re: Less is More

Ron Jacobs — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:30:47 GMT

@Rory - you can use tasks just be aware of the issues. Actually if all you want to do is easily implement async execution you can use Action.BeginInvoke / EndInvoke with a delegate.

re: Less is More

Rory Primrose — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 22:57:37 GMT

I was going to use your sample from blogs.msdn.com/.../windows-workflow-foundation-wf4-activities-and-threads.aspx to achieve this. Do you still feel that this is a valid way forward if cancellation is not required?

re: Less is More

Ron Jacobs — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:43:55 GMT

@Josh - don't get too far ahead of me... at this point I'm only scoping the problems and laying out some general principles for the design. However... if you have scenarios in mind, I'm delighted to hear about them.

re: Less is More

Josh Reuben — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:38:44 GMT

Sounds like a TPL DataFlow Designer - an agent activity scheduler + activities representing various message passing blocks !