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Paul Andrew

Microsoft Technical Product Manager for the SharePoint Developer Platform
BPEL for Windows Workflow Foundation March Community Technology Preview is released

As I predicted last month, the March 2007 CTP for our BPEL activities for Windows Workflow Foundation was released today.

BPEL for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is an add on for Windows Workflow Foundation in the .NET Framework 3.0. BPEL is the Business Process Execution Language and this download is an unsupported Community Technology Preview (CTP) for using this technology with WF. The download, which is aimed at software developers, provides import and export tools for BPEL and includes WF activities representing BPEL for the WF designer in Visual Studio 2005.

This release reinforces how WF is extensible and not dependant on any specific modeling language for its declarative modeling approach. Others in the community are encouraged to build activity sets that represent other process modeling languages that suit their needs. By supporting declarative modelling with WF in an extensible way Microsoft is providing .NET Framework developers with a familiar code oriented approach that can also be higher level and more productive.

You can download it now from MSDN and to make the best use of it I'd recommend you also get these. You will need Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 to try this.

  1. the .NET Framework 3.0
  2. the Windows Vista and .NET Framework 3.0 SDK
  3. Visual Studio 2005 Profesisonal or better
  4. the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation

This technology is planend for release at the end of calendar year 2007 and we look forward to your feedback to help improve it.

BPEL for WF activities in Visual Studio 2005 tool bar

Posted: Friday, March 16, 2007 3:06 PM by pandrew
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Comments

Scott Hanselman said:

Fantastic! I'm glad some thought is being put in this. I was concerned that it would be left the rest of us to implement BPEL.

Thanks!

# March 16, 2007 6:53 PM

WF Team Bloggers said:

As I predicted last month , the March 2007 CTP for our BPEL activities for Windows Workflow Foundation

# March 16, 2007 7:01 PM

Christopher Steen said:

ClickOnce Community Resource Kit has found a new home [Via: brian@softinsight.com ] Health Monitoring...

# March 16, 2007 10:34 PM

RSS It All said:

The CTP for BPEL for Windows Workflow is available download it now from MSDN The March 2007 CTP for our

# March 17, 2007 1:48 AM

Charles said:

But when i create a workflow project and wnat to view workflow in desinger, I always get an "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.WindowPane.GetService(

System.Type)" error!

# March 20, 2007 3:27 AM

Mike Taulty's Blog said:

Via Paul's blog post here; BPEL for Windows Workflow Foundation March Community Technology Preview is...

# March 22, 2007 7:12 AM

Daniel_Karlsson said:

Looking forward to the final release later this year

# March 22, 2007 10:51 AM

Daniel_Karlsson said:

Looking forward to the final release later this year

# March 22, 2007 10:51 AM

Jay said:

Hi,

That's great. I was looking for any articles on examples using this. But found none.

Can you please suggest?

Thanks

# March 23, 2007 7:57 AM

Alberto said:

Jay,

There are release notes, samples and a quickstart guide within the download package.

Thanks

# March 23, 2007 4:37 PM

Justyna said:

Are there any tutorials, documentation or sample BPEL workflow projects available for download?

# March 25, 2007 3:55 PM

Anirban Chakladar|Blog said:

Check out Paul Andrew's latest post on BPEL for Windows Workflow Foundation Paul is a Windows Workflow

# April 4, 2007 9:34 PM

Alex Thissen Weblog Build 1.15.10.1971 said:

Before we get to the point that WCF+WF Orcas (Silver) is released, some other WCF and WF related releases

# April 10, 2007 7:48 PM

Justyna said:

In a sample project (loan approval) there is a process definition BrokerWorkflow.bpel. In partner links definition:

"

<partnerLinks>

 <partnerLink name="brokerLink" partnerLinkType="myns:LoanBrokerLink" myRole="Requester" />

 <parnterLink name="creditLink" partnerLink="myns:CreditAgencyLink" myRole="Borrower" />

 <parnterLink name="bankLink" partnerLinkType="myns:InternationalBankLink" myRole="Banker" />

 <partnerLink name="databaseLink" parnterLinkType="myns:DatabaseServiceLink" myRole="DatabaseUser" />

</partnerLinks>

"

only myRole is used. Why? why isn't partnerRole used for creditLink, bankLink and databaseLink?

Doesn't the definition above mean that the broker process must implement BrokerWebServiceSoap, CreditAgencyWebServiceSoap, BankWebServiceSoap, DataBaseServiceSoap?

# April 12, 2007 6:47 AM

Justyna said:

Is it possible to expose BPEL workflows as WCF services?

# April 16, 2007 7:06 AM

Public Sector Developer Weblog said:

1. &quot;Context Exchange Protocol&quot; slide, an instanceID is returned to client. How to deal with

# September 26, 2007 11:45 PM

Bloggercoaster said:

1. &quot;Context Exchange Protocol&quot; slide, an instanceID is returned to client. How to deal with

# September 26, 2007 11:46 PM

Noticias externas said:

1. &quot;Context Exchange Protocol&quot; slide, an instanceID is returned to client. How to deal with

# September 26, 2007 11:55 PM
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