February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Content preview from Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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6.10. WCF Workflow Service Applications
WCF Workflow Service applications are a new type of project in VS2010 that makes it very easy to create workflows for sending and receiving data. They essentially provide a declarative WCF service defined using workflow activities. WCF Workflow Service applications have all the benefits of WF, such as support for long-running services, a GUI interface, and the additional benefit that they are declared declaratively, so they're easy to deploy and version.
VS2010 comes with a WCF Workflow Service Application template that you can adapt for your own needs. The sample application simply echoes a number you send to it back to you. Let's take this for a spin now.
Create a new WCF Workflow Service project called ...