The Road to 4 – WF Changes between Beta 1 and CTP

The Road to 4 – WF Changes between Beta 1 and CTP - Cliff Simpkins

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re: The Road to 4 – WF Changes between Beta 1 and CTP

huseyint — Tue, 05 May 2009 11:44:21 GMT

Quick question: Will the new WPF based WF designer in VS 2010 will be able to rehosted on custom applications as in the previous 3.0/3.5 WF designer? Thanks.

re: The Road to 4 – WF Changes between Beta 1 and CTP

.NET Connected Framework Team — Tue, 05 May 2009 19:16:39 GMT

@huseyint: Yes; absolutely - and rehosting the WPF designer is actually much simpler in WF 4 (3 lines of code for the simplest level rehosting) and easier to customize the look and feel. As an example of simple rehosting, Matt Winkler demonstrated the designer rehosting on the CTP bits in his PDC session (http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/TL21/) - while the bits are a bit dated, it does a good job of showing what can be done. Also, the fact that it's WPF-based provides some flexibility to skin the rehosted designer in ways that were quite hard in WF 3.x.

The Road to 4 – WCF Changes between Beta 1 and CTP

The .NET Endpoint — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:43:45 GMT

As I mentioned in my post last week covering the changes in WF 4 since the CTP release , I promised that

VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1 available for download!

The .NET Endpoint — Wed, 20 May 2009 23:16:31 GMT

Yes! It's time. Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Beta1 is available for general download now.

re: The Road to 4 – WF Changes between Beta 1 and CTP

zoranjovanovic@hotmail.com — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:29:42 GMT

Interesting decision to release v4.0 of WF without in my opinion two most important components: Rule engine and State machine... At least I seen those two components as the most important reason to use WF today...

re: The Road to 4 – WF Changes between Beta 1 and CTP

kavitak — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:07:27 GMT

@zoranjovanovic - Thanks for your comment re: Rules and State Machine. Please check out migration guidance that we've posted -

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wfprerelease/thread/25e4fc38-24b2-4727-a552-cd7c06d2e55a

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wfprerelease/thread/b3d185f5-7d8a-4361-af13-3ada4e231313

Thanks

Kavita

Lead Program Manager, Windows Workflow Foundation