BizTalk Adapter for Windows Workflow Foundation sample

BizTalk Adapter for Windows Workflow Foundation Sample

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) can be hosted in any .Net Application Type. In v1 (in .Net Framework 3.0) WF doesn't come with any default hosting environment out of the box, that allow exposing it to the outside world as services and deploy and manage the workflows.

It has already been announced that in the next version of Biztalk Server (currently called vNext, which means that I am not talking about Biztalk 2006 R2) will use WF as the Orchestration Layer for the business processes. Unlike WF, Biztalk has a hosting system which is very robust, and also allows the management of the processes.

So, If you are a WF developer and want to build your business processes using WF, but don't have a hosting environment for it, you can take a look at the BizTalk Adapter for Windows Workflow Foundation Sample that was announced at TechEd 07. This adapter is actually a command-line tool (it will be integrated into Visual Studio in the future) that takes the workflow definition and the WCF Service Contract definition, and creates the send / receive ports for communicating with this process, and a biztalk project with message schemas and orchestration that invokes this workflow.

Check the announcement here, watch the sample video here, and wait for the Sample CTP of BizTalk Adapter for Windows Workflow Foundation sample to be available soon.

Enjoy!