Introduction

This sample allows you to author activities and workflows in the re-hosted workflow designer and publish them in a Workflow Manager 1.0 scope hierarchy.

Building the Sample

  1. Open the solution.
  2. Press F5 to run the sample.
  3. Enter the base address of the Workflow Manager endpoint and click "Connect".
  4. Create new activities as desired and publish them to a workflow scope.
  5. Use the published activities in other workflows as desired and publish them to a workflow scope.

Note: this sample does not rely on Workflow Tools 1.0 for Visual Studio 2012 as the workflow authoring is part of a re-hosted designer application.

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 new, managed host for executing and managing 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)