Introduction

This sample demonstrates how to use Workflow Configuration as part of the Workflow Manager 1.0.  In particular, this sample shows how to set configuration values and use them during workflow execution.

Building the Sample

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

For more information on using the Workflow Tools, please see the Using Workflow Tools sample.

  1. Open the solution.
  2. In Program.cs, update the 'baseAddress' string to the target Workflow Manager endpoint.
  3. Press F5 to run the sample.
  4. Follow the output on the console as directed.

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)