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

1 May 2007 7:10 PM

B. Chernick

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?

1 May 2007 7:55 PM

Vijay

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

2 May 2007 12:37 PM

B. Chernick

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.

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"Vijay" wrote:

> 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

2 May 2007 1:41 PM

Vijay

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

2 May 2007 2:23 PM

B. Chernick

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!

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"Vijay" wrote:

> 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

2 May 2007 3:12 PM

Vijay

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

2 May 2007 6:11 PM

B. Chernick

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.

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"Vijay" wrote:

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