Essential Windows Workflow Foundation (Microsoft .NET Development Series)


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	Essential Windows Workflow Foundation (Microsoft .NET Development Series)
	Author: Dharma Shukla Published: 2006-10-13
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Customer comments on this selection. Look elsewhere... If you are looking for a guide to help you write better WF applications, keep looking. I read this book from cover to cover and I now understand some of the inner workings of WF, but I still have still lots of questions about how to use WF effectively. Good description of fundamentals Provides a very good, bottom up, description of the core architecture of Windows Workflow. It doesn't necessarily provide much help in getting an initial implementation off the ground, but once you have the standard WF boilerplate in place, the information from this book helps you really understand how a workflow works, and thus makes you proficient in creating workflows. Spare me the vocabulary Look, there are enough buzzwords that are ill-used in our "profession domain". Passivate? Pedagogical? Episodic execution? Thread and process agility? Enough. Enough. Enough. When a book starts as oddly as this one did, the editors are using the wrong ruler to measure what valuable content should look like. Essential (absolutely necessary; indispensable) information should not be "decorated" with such a mish-mash of terms stolen from other disciplines or made up for the sake of being unique. Simply the best insider book This is one of the best books I have read. It shows the real internal workings of WF and does so vividly. This is not a work-by-example book but a book everyone must own to learn the fundamentals. I didn't want to get spoiled by the Visual Designer in DevStudio simply because I wanted to know what's going on behind the curtain and this book definitely hit the spot. I would buy other books (probably Scott Allen's) for practical usages/learning by examples. Indeed the MOST ESSENTIAL book on WF Just as Kernighan-Ritchie wrote the book about "C" which laid the foundation to that language, this book is the "starting point" to learn the new paradigm of Workflow Programming. This book examines the WF "concepts" in a manner that build in steps, one concept at a time. Most books try to give "everything" in "how to implement applications" fashion. But unless one gets a "conceptual understanding" of what the technology is, and why it is like that, it would be hard to "think with" that technology. One can "copy" other examples for rapid implementations, but one cannot "invent" solutions that apply to their own domain. By reading this book one can really "invent" solutions to "any" domain one works in. Very well written book. I suspect Don Box played an important role in guiding the style of this book. Other subjects should also have such "essential" books available.
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