Introduction

This sample allows you to enter a Visual Basic expression and see the equivalent translated workflow that can be published and executed using Workflow Manager 1.0.

Building the Sample

This sample requires the Workflow Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio 2012.  Please download and install these tools from:

Please also see the UsingWorkflowTools.docx document which provides additional information on how to configure the Workflow Tools.

  1. Open the solution.
  2. Press F5 to run the sample.
  3. Add variables as desired in the top section.
  4. Enter an expression using those variables.  Failures will be reported if the expression does not currently  support translation.
  5. In the tabs, see a sample untranslated workflow using that expression, as well as the translated workflow that can be published and executed using Workflow 1.0 Beta.

Description

Workflow Manager 1.0 builds on the continuum of hosting options that the .NET framework provides today with WorkflowApplication and WorkflowServiceHost, to provide a brand new, managed host for executing workflows. The cloud provides a great opportunity for us to provide an "always on" environment for running, monitoring and managing workflows. With a cloud offering, organizations can focus more of their energies on the design of the workflow logic itself - and integration with their applications - instead of spending time on building infrastructure. Workflow Manager 1.0 will take care of many of the challenges customers have today in managing their workflow artifacts, building out their hosting environment, configuring it for scale and high availability, managing a farm of machines running their applications, and so on. The service also provides new capabilities for SaaS ISVs to provide user extensibility to their applications in an efficient, secure, multi-tenant way.

More Information

For more information on Workflow Manager 1.0, please see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj193528(v=azure.10)