Windows Workflow Foundation Samples

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Application Samples

The Application samples represent complete applications that are written for Windows Workflow Foundation that demonstrate the use of several technologies.

Sample	Description
Ordering State Machine Sample	Demonstrates how to create a state machine workflow that implements an order-processing system.
Outlook Workflow Wizard Sample	Demonstrates how to host the Windows Workflow Foundation Visual Studio designer to create an application that generates rules for Microsoft Office Outlook.
Speech Application Sample	Demonstrates how to create a state machine workflow that implements a speech-driven menu application.
Termination Tracking Service Sample	Demonstrates how to create a custom tracking service to track workflow terminations.
Tracking Profile Designer Sample	Enables you to visually create a tracking profile. This tracking profile can then be saved to a file or a database in SQL Server.
Workflow Monitor Sample	Provides a tool that lets you see the progress of a workflow instance. It uses the SqlTrackingService to gather the current status of the workflow and activities, and it uses the rehostable workflow designer to show progress.
Workflow Reflection Utility Sample	Provides an extensible tool for extracting workflow-related information from an assembly. Each workflow's hierarchy, declarative rules, and required local services are displayed in a tree view. This allows for easy browsing of the compiled workflow's structure.

Technology Samples

The Technology samples demonstrate specific technologies of Windows Workflow Foundation. They are categorized based on their technology features.

Category	Sample	Description
Activities Samples
	Nested Exception Handlers Sample	Illustrates how to use nested exception handlers in a workflow to catch and handle specific exception types at different stages in the workflow.
	Delay Sample	Demonstrates the use of the DelayActivity activity.
	While and Parallel Sample	Demonstrates the use of two parallel sequential code activities within a while loop activity.
	Suspend and Terminate Sample	Demonstrates the use of the two basic activities, SuspendActivity and TerminateActivity.
	Replicator Sample	Demonstrates a simple use of the ReplicatorActivity activity.
	ConditionedActivityGroup Sample	Provides a simple implementation of a ConditionedActivityGroup (CAG) activity.
	Synchronized Sample	Demonstrates how to author a workflow that synchronizes access to shared resources.
	Throw Sample	Illustrates how to use the Throw activity, which enables you to model and throw an exception from a workflow. It also shows how to catch the exception in the hosting application.
	Compensation Sample	Demonstrates how to author compensation in a workflow.
	Simple Policy Sample	Shows how to create a workflow that uses the PolicyActivity to implement a discount workflow.
	Advanced Policy Sample	Builds on the Simple Policy Sample sample to show more advanced capabilities available with a RuleSet.
	State Initialization Sample	Shows how to use a State Initialization activity.
Activity Binding Samples
	Custom Activity Binding Sample	Includes a workflow that has a custom activity property that is bound to a workflow property.
Basic Workflows Samples
	Simple Sequential Workflow Sample	Illustrates how to build and execute a "hello world" workflow by using a command-line host.
	Simple State Machine Sample	Demonstrates the use of state machine workflow.
	Workflow with Parameters Sample	Shows how to build a simple sequential workflow using IN and OUT parameters. The sample is nearly identical to the Simple Sequential Workflow Sample sample, except the IN parameter is evaluated by the code condition in the IfElseActivity activity, and the order status is stored in an OUT parameter.
Communications Samples
	Web Service Sample	Demonstrates how Web services can be invoked from the workflow and how a workflow can be published as a Web service.
	Listen Sample	Introduces the ListenActivity activity, which is a composite activity that blocks and waits for one of n child branches to occur. Each child branch is a sequence with a blocking activity as a first step. Exactly one of the branches of a ListenActivityactivity will execute.
	Correlated Local Service Sample	Demonstrates the use of correlation attributes with local services to raise correlated events to a workflow instance.
	Simple Input Sample	Illustrates the use of queues to send data into a workflow.
	Host Communication Sample	Demonstrates the communication with the workflow host application using a local service.
	State Machine Communication Sample	Demonstrates how to move between states using HandleExternalEventActivity activities.
Custom Activities Samples
	Simple Activity Sample	Illustrates how to add properties and handlers to a custom activity.
	Basic Activity Designer Sample	Illustrates how to add a custom configuration error and a custom context menu to the designer associated with an activity.
	Send E-mail Activity Sample	Illustrates the creation of a custom activity that can be used to send mail using the Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP).
	File System Watcher Activity Sample	Illustrates the creation of an activity that can be used to listen for file system events. It shows the use of queues in the development of an activity that listens for file system events, such as the creation of a file in a specific folder.
Designer Hosting Samples
	Basic Designer Hosting Sample	Shows how the workflow designer can be re-hosted in a Windows application. The goal of this sample is to show how a separate development environment/execution environment can be created outside of Visual Studio.
Dynamic Update Samples
	Dynamic Update from Workflow Sample	Demonstrates how to dynamically update a workflow instance when it is running from inside the workflow (code-beside).
	Changing Rules Sample	Demonstrates how to dynamically change a rule condition from the host program.
	Dynamic Update from Host Sample	Demonstrates how to dynamically update a workflow instance from outside the workflow, for example, the host program.
Hosting Samples
	Custom Persistence Service Sample	Demonstrates the engine unloading a workflow by saving the workflow instance state through a custom persistence service, when the workflow waits during a Delay activity.
	Raise Event to Load Workflow Sample	Demonstrates a document-approval scenario in which the workflow is unloaded from memory when it is idle and loaded back into memory upon event arrival.
	Using Persistence Services Sample	Illustrates how to use the SqlWorkflowPersistenceService service, and how workflow instances are loaded and unloaded to and from memory by the application and the workflow runtime.
	Canceling a Workflow Sample	Demonstrates how to exit a workflow that is waiting for an external event that will never occur.
	Workflow Threading Sample	Shows the differences between running a workflow using the Manual Threading model and the default CLR threading model, and demonstrates the threading impact of using the DelayActivity activity in a workflow.
	Persistence Host Sample	Shows how to reload a persisted workflow using a Windows Forms sample.
InMemory Samples
	Simple In-Memory Sample	Shows how to load a workflow code file at run time.
Markup Samples
	Sequential Markup Workflow Sample	Shows how to use a simple sequential workflow created as markup.
	State Machine Markup Workflow Sample	Shows how to use a simple state machine workflow created as markup.
	Workflow Serialization Sample	Shows how to serialize and reload a programmatically created workflow.
	Custom Serialization Sample	Shows how to serialize advanced data types.
Roles Samples
	Using Active Directory Roles Sample	Demonstrates the use of the ActiveDirectory roles in workflows.
	Using Web Workflow Roles Sample	Demonstrates the use of the ASP roles in workflows.
Rules and Conditions Samples
	IfElse with Rules Sample	Shows the use of a rule condition with an IfElseActivity activity.
Tracking Samples
	Simple Tracking Sample	Illustrates the use of the SQL tracking service to track workflow events.
	Query Using SQLTrackingService Sample	Illustrates the use of the SQL tracking service to track workflow events using a custom tracking profile.
	Tracking Using User Track Points Sample	Illustrates the use of the SQL tracking service to track workflow events using user track points.
	EventArgs Tracking Sample	Illustrates the use of the SQL tracking service to track workflow TrackingWorkflowTerminatedEventArgs, TrackingWorkflowSuspendedEventArgs, and TrackingWorkflowExceptionEventArgs.
	ConsoleTrackingService Sample	Shows how to create a tracking service and write the contents of tracked data to the console.
	RuleActionTrackingEvent Sample	Demonstrates how you can use tracking to determine rule actions in your workflow.
	File Tracking Service and Query Sample	Illustrates how you can create a simple file-based tracking service that reads and writes TrackingProfile data to an XML file.
	Using the Tracking Profile Object Model Sample	Shows how to create, serialize, and deserialize TrackingProfile data using the Tracking Profile Object Model.
	SQL Data Maintenance Sample	Shows how to partition tracking data for ease in data archiving.
WorkflowCommitWorkBatch Service Samples
	Using WorkflowCommitWorkBatch Service Sample	Illustrates how to create a custom service and have it participate in the same transaction as that of the workflow from which the service is invoked.

Windows Workflow Foundation Samples
This page is specific to:.NET Framework Version: 3.03.5