Chapter 18. Invoking Web Services from Within Your Workflows

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

Speaking personally, something about sending and receiving data over networks struck a chord with me, and I’ve enjoyed writing communications-based code for years because of it. When I saw that Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) had built-in capabilities to both connect to and act as a Web service, well, that was something I just had to dig into a bit deeper.

WF ships with several XML Web service–based activities, the client side of which we’ll examine in this chapter. (We’ll work with the server-side activities in the final chapter, "Workflow as Web ...

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