Hosting a workflow service in IIS7

The process of sending an e-mail would consume some time—maybe a few seconds or even minutes. It would be a waste of time and resources for our applications to stop and wait for an e-mail sending action to complete. Because sending e-mail is time-consuming, a better design is to strip this feature out as an independent WCF workflow service and host that service in IIS7.

Getting ready

We need the SendEmailActivity activity to send an e-mail. We can check this activity in Chapter 5, Custom Activities.

How to do it...

  1. Create a WCF workflow service application:

    Create a WCF workflow service application and name it HostingWorkflowServiceInIIS7.

  2. Add SendEmailActivity to the toolbox:

    In the Toolbox tab, right-click and ...

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