AppFabric Reference Implementation: Managing the LifeCycle of a WorkFlow Service

Resource Page Description
The AppFabric Starter Kit is designed to be a reference implementation; a secondary objective is to provide sample code that developers could use to manage the life-cycle of the .NET 4 Workflow Services on Windows Server AppFabric. It does this by providing a complete client-side application that enables design of .NET Windows Workflow Services outside of the Visual Studio IDE; deployment of these Services from the Client to the AppFabric server; versioning of the deployed service definitions; and finally management of Service Instances in a custom monitoring console. Additionally this document provides the instructions for setup, a tour of the features and implementation highlights.

*The features enabled via the starter kit are: *

• Re-hosting the designer to provide a design experience that’s fully integrated into the line-of-business application
• Handling deployment from design tool to the Windows Server AppFabric
• Managing the published versions of the customer’s workflow designs
• Securing access to designed workflows
• Executing and controlling instances of custom workflows from the product
• Reporting on business metrics collected from a workflow service instance’s execution
• Troubleshooting and diagnosing issues

Links
To see a Wiki version of the documentation, go to http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/appfabric-reference-implementation-managing-the-lifecycle-of-a-workflow-service.aspx

Version
October 14, 2010