Windows Workflow - What basic tutorials? What's going on here?

[Guest]

I thought I was an experienced programmer but I'm looking at the beginning
WWF tutorial (Simple Expense Report) and I'm baffled. I feel like I don't
know how to even begin reading this. I thought this was supposed to be
interactive coding. Since when do we cut and paste into a project file? Is
this just a temporary Beta thing? Why this constant use of command prompts?

Also I have downloaded other samples onto my machine and none of them seem
to work correctly. In the OrderingStateMachine demo, I get the error
message: "The project file <C:\data\Visual Studio
2005\OrderingStateMachine\VB\OrderWorkFlows\OrderWorkFlows.vbproj cannot be
opened. The project type is not supported by this installation." ??????

Could someone direct me to a more user-friendly, comprehensible tutorial?

 

[Guest]

Well, to begin with are you able to create WF project from the template file?
If not then you need to install VS 2005 extensions for WF.

HTH

 

[Guest]

My mistake. I don't see any templates for WF. It was the extensions for
WPF/WCF that I installed. Back to the downloads.

But my question still stands. As an introduction to WF, that tutorial
makes no sense.

 

[Guest]

Yep, that is no surprise. As an experienced professional you should know by
now MS documentation has rarely been good. I had my share of issues dealing
with WF (read WTF!) at the start.

I had to uninstall all previous versions of sdk and install new release.

HTH

 

[Guest]

I've just installed the WF VS extensions and tried to write a very simple
app. Nothing is working and I clearly do not understand the basic
principles. Time to Read The Fine Manual! Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Please share your experience on WF once you get it going.
Thanks

 

[Guest]

If anyone else is reading this, I suspect that starting with the MSDN writeup
at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms735967.aspx will be more useful
than digging through local help files and looking for samples. But it's
still very alien technology to me.