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Paul Andrew

Microsoft Technical Product Manager for the SharePoint Developer Platform
Windows Workflow Foundation Web Workflow Approvals Starter Kit

The first of a set of starter kits for WF and WCF on the .NET Framework 3.0 has just been released. These starter kits are planned to help developers new to these technologies to get started on their first project faster. The starter kits are not supported by Microsoft but include full source code to common scenarios examples.

Windows Workflow Foundation Web Workflow Approvals Starter Kit

This starter kit is a Visual Studio 2005 project that demonstrates using Windows Workflow Foundation for simple task oriented workflow in an ASP.NET web application in a minimal number of lines of code. A workflow model is used to automate work order requests at a small example company. It includes three pre-defined roles which each play a part in the work orders creation, approval and monitoring. The starter kit may be modified for other workflow models to suit other small web based task management systems.

This starter kit can be downloaded from MSDN here. Once installed you can create a new project from the template and press F5 to start the application. This is a great way to try out workflow enabled applications yourself.

This shows the home page for a logged in user. You can see workflow instances in progress that are assigned to this users role.

Posted: Friday, April 06, 2007 5:22 PM by pandrew

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Kavitak's WebLog said:

Paul Andrew just announced the release of the first out of a series of new starter kits to help developers

# April 6, 2007 8:25 PM

WF Team Bloggers said:

The first of a set of starter kits for WF and WCF on the .NET Framework 3.0 has just been released. These

# April 6, 2007 9:26 PM

Christopher Steen said:

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# April 7, 2007 1:53 AM

Soma said:

Link does not work to download the starter kit??

# April 8, 2007 4:23 AM

Mighell's blog said:

Paul Andrew annuncia la disponibilità del primo Starter Kitrelativo a Windows Workflow Foundation. The

# April 8, 2007 4:47 AM

soma said:

It may be a good work, but for a beginner, it seems to be an occean. I am unable to swime in this.

How to start from small example.if anyone has any idea, please let me know.

# April 9, 2007 2:35 AM

somahosamane said:

It may be a good work, but for a beginner, it seems to be an occean. I am unable to swime in this.

How to start from small example.if anyone has any idea, please let me know.

# April 9, 2007 2:36 AM

Miguel Campos Blog said:

Well, I am back after some holidays and it is nice to encounter some important developments happened.

# April 9, 2007 11:56 AM

Matt W's Windows Workflow Place said:

Two quick links before I run back to my day job. Paul posts a Web Workflow Starter Kit. Check it out

# April 9, 2007 4:18 PM

Workflow Samples said:

from Paul's blog : This starter kit is a Visual Studio 2005 project that demonstrates using Windows Workflow

# April 9, 2007 4:27 PM

pandrew said:

Hi Soma,

Did you read the included README document? You should be able to get the sample going pretty easily with that. We're also writing a whitepaper that describes the sample in more detail.

Regards,

Paul

# April 9, 2007 7:57 PM

Daniel_Karlsson said:

This will be a great start for new developers =]

# April 10, 2007 4:49 AM

Colin Place said:

Thanks for the Starter Kit.  It's answered a lot of questions.  I do have a question regarding your strategy for sending data to a workflow instance.

Why did you choose to create a custom activity that implements the IEventActivity and IActivityEventListener interfaces instead of using the built in HandleExternalEventActivity activity?  It seems to me that many of the details that went into the starter kit's UserActivity are already handled by the HandleExternalEventActivity.   Were you just trying to illustrate how you could achieve this without using the built in components, or is there a practical reason to avoid using the HandleExternalEventActivity in a production app?

# April 11, 2007 6:20 PM

Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET said:

First let me apologize for missing the links last week, I was on vacation in the early part of the week

# April 14, 2007 12:05 AM

arfan said:

i need workflow application in asp.net, just as simple application are exist in asp.net at site of starterkits.

# May 2, 2007 6:18 AM
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