Windows Workflow (WF) 4.x Samples

 

Please note that .NET 4.5 is an in-place update to .NET 4.0. Therefore, all the WF 4 samples mentioned below work on the 4.5 runtime.

**WF 4.5 Samples
** 

• Getting Started
  • Windows Workflow Foundation (WF45) Getting Started Tutorial
• Contract-First
  • Contract-First Authoring of a Workflow Service
• Dynamic Update
  • An Introduction to Dynamic Update in Windows Workflow
  • An Introduction to Custom Activity Participation in Dynamic Update
  • An Introduction to Implementation Maps in Dynamic Update of Windows Workflows
• WorkflowIdentity
  • Version Mismatch with WorkflowIdentit​y
  • Loading the Right Workflow Using WorkflowIdentit​y
• Side-by-Side Versioning
  • Side-by-Side Hosting of Two Versions of a Workflow Using WorkflowService​Host
  • Hosting Side-by-Side Versions of a Workflow Service via XCOPY Deployment
• Workflow Designer
  • Support of WF 4.5 Designer Improvements in Rehosted Scenarios
• LINQ
  • How to use LINQ in a Workflow
• Miscellaneous
  • WF4.5 Developer Preview - C# Expression, Workflow Versioning and Dynamic Update

 
**
WF 4.0 Samples**
 
You can download the official WF 4.0 Samples from here.

These WF Samples have been categorized as following:

• Application
  • DocumentApprovalProcess
  • HiringRequestProcess
  • PurchaseProcess
  • SuspendedInstanceManagement 

• Basic
  • Built-InActivities
    • CancelationScope
    • Collection
    • DynamicActivity
    • EmulatingBreakInWhile
    • FlowChartWithFaultHandling
    • InteropWith35RuleSet
    • InvokeMethod
    • Pick
    • Procedurals
    • Switch
  • Compensation
    • BasicCompensableActivity
    • CompensationCancellation
    • Confirmation
    • CustomCompensation
  • CustomActivities
    • Code-Bodied
    • Composite
    • CustomActivityDesigners
  • Designer
    • IActivityToolboxService
    • ProgrammingModelItemTree
    • PropertyGridExtensibility
    • ViewStateCleaningWriter
  • DesignerRehosting
  • Execution
    • ControllingWorkflowApplications
    • CreatingWorkflowInstances
    • CreationEndpoint
    • ManagementEndpoint
    • ResumeBookmarkEndpoint
    • WorkflowInvoker
  • Expressions
  • Migration
    • ExternalDataExchange
    • SimpleInterop
  • Persistence
    • BuiltInConfiguration
    • InstancePersistence
    • PersistenceParticipants (in the samples folder, look under WF\Basic\Persistence\PersistenceParticipants)
    • PropertyPromotionActivity
    • SQLStoreExtensibility
  • Rules
    • IfElseWithRules
    • Simple Policy
    • Advanced Policy
    • Order Processing with Policy
    • SimpleCAG
  • Services
    • AbsoluteDelay
    • BufferedReceive
    • ChannelCache
    • ContentBasedCorrelation
    • DurableDelay
    • DurableDelayXamlx
    • DurableDuplex
    • Faults
    • Formatter
    • ImplicitExplicitCorrelation
    • SendReceiveParameters
    • XAMLActivation
    • XAMLService
  • Tracking
    • CustomTracking
    • EtwTracking
    • ExtractWFData
    • SqlTracking
    • TextFileTracking
  • Transactions
    • NestedTransactionScope
    • TransactedReceiveScope
    • TRSComposability (in the samples folder, look under WF\Basic\Transactions\TRSComposability)
  • Validation 
    • ActivityRelationships
    • BasicValidation
    • ExternalActivityValidation
    • OverloadGroups 

• Scenario
  • ActivityLibrary
    • CommentOut
    • DbActivities
    • EntityActivities
    • For
    • GetWorkflowInstanceId
    • LINQ
      • LINQ to Objects Activity
      • LINQ to SQL
    • NonGenericForEach
    • NonGenericParallelForEach
    • NoPersistScope
    • PowerShell
    • RangeEnumeration
    • Regex
    • Rules-ExternalizedPolicy4
    • Rules-Policy4
    • SendMail
    • SwitchRange
    • ThrottledParallelForEach
    • WaitForInput
  • Compensation
  • ExternalRuleSetToolkit
  • Services
    • AccessingOperationContext
    • AsynchronousCommunication
    • CorrelatedCalculator
    • LinqMessageQueryCorrelation
    • OperationScope
    • SecuringWorkflowService
  • StateMachineWithPick
  • Transactions
    • ImperativeTransaction
    • SuppressTransactionScope
    • TransactedConvoyScope
    • TransactedQueues
    • TransactionRollback
  • Validation (in the samples folder, look under WF\Scenario\Validation)
  • WPFWFIntegration

Here are a few more samples in addition to the official WF 4 samples:

• State Machine     

  • Introduction to State Machine Hands On Lab
  • Exploring State Machine 
  • Tracking State Machine
  • Tracking State Machine Workflow Service

• ASP.NET and WF

  • ASP.NET MVC4 Workflow Enabled User Registration
  • Using Workflow with ASP.NET MVC 4 AsyncController
  • Using Workflow with ASP.NET MVC 3
  • ASP.NET MVC2 Wizard Activity Sample
  • How to use Workflow from ASP.NET                                

• WPF and WF

  • How to use Workflow from WPF

• Silverlight and WF

  • Silverlight / State Machine Workflow Service

• LINQ and WF

  • Using LINQ Queries in Workflow

•  Unit Testing

  • Microsoft.Activ​ities.UnitTesti​ng - How do I test an Activity?
  • Microsoft.Activ​ities.UnitTesti​ng - How do I test an activity with bookmarks?
  • Microsoft.Activ​ities.UnitTesti​ng - How do I test a Workflow Service?
  • Mocking WF4 Workflow Activities with Microsoft.Activ​ities.UnitTesti​ng

• Debugging

  • Three Rules Simple for Better Debugging with WorkflowApplica​tion

• WCF Workflow Service

  • WCF / WF Service Fault and Validation Example
  • Workflow Service Repository Example
  • Workflow Services and Auto-Start
  • WorkflowService Trace Behavior Sample
  • Windows Server AppFabric / Workflow Services Demo - Contoso HR 

• Miscellaneous            

  • How To Invoke a Child Workflow as XAML
  • Custom Activity Designer
  • Workflow Arguments Example
  • Parallel and ParallelFor Behavior
  • Collection Activities Example
  • Execution Properties Sample
  • Role Based Security for Workflow Services
  • Optional InArgument
  • Activity Callbacks and Event Handlers
  • XAML Activity Spoofing
  • Activity State Sample
  • Using Arrays in Workflow
  • Initialize Variables with Configuration

             

Rules Samples

• Rule Driven Pageflow / Workflow
• Rules Driven User Interface (UI)
• Rules Driven User Interface (UI) With Traces (WF Rules Engine)
• Custom Rule Actions
• Creating Rules Using the Rules Object Model (OM)
• Rules with Collection (WF Rules Engine)
• Rule Set Analyzer (WF Rules Engine)
• Processing XML Documents with the WF Rules Engine
• Policy From File (WF Rules Engine)
• Custom Rule Expressions