Legacy Update: Get back online, activate, and install updates on your legacy Windows PC

This training is a complete two day class that takes a real world approach and illustrates how to use Windows Workflow Foundation and .NET 4 Workflow Services to enhance your web applications, providing technical depth to encourage further experimentation and adoption.

• The focus of the class is around the exciting new capabilities in .NET 4 for building distributed business applications and using services alongside your web applications. The investments Microsoft is making around Windows Workflow Foundation 4 and Workflow Services will simplify the development of your custom business logic, coordination code and web services. Windows Server AppFabric will further help you deploy, control and manage these services and workflows.
  This training is a complete two day class that takes a real world approach and illustrates how to use these technologies to enhance your web applications, providing technical depth to encourage further experimentation and adoption. This training uses Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and AppFabric Beta1 and contains lectures, demos and hand-on labs for each of the ten modules in the class.
  Agenda
  • Overview
    • .NET 4 Workflow Services are the new way to build SOA and WCF services using workflowsand AppFabric provides the enterprise grade host.
    • Introducing the Fourth Coffee scenario, setting the stage for what gets built throughoutthe class.
  • Development
    • Building Workflows, Activities and Activity Designers
    • Developing Workflow Services
    • Using Entity Framework in Workflow Services
    • Integrating SharePoint 2010
    • Connecting the ASP.NET and Silverlight user interfaces to Workflow Services
  • Deployment
    • Deploying to IIS/AppFabric for testing from Visual Studio
    • Re-Packaging site for deployment using MS Deploy from AppFabric
  • Debugging During Development & Troubleshooting Once Deployed
    • Debugging Options During Development
    • Troubleshooting Options in Test
    • Troubleshooting Options in Production using AppFabric
  • Configuration & Maintenance
    • AppFabric configuration (workflow service persistence, monitoring)
    • Versioning of Workflow Services in AppFabric
  • Enterprise Grade Hosting with AppFabric
    • Gaining availability and scalability with Instance Restart, Lock Retry and Routing
    • Priming the pump with AutoStart

Files

Status: Live This download is still available on microsoft.com. The downloads below will come directly from the Microsoft Download Center.

File	Size
00 - Hands-on-Lab Solution Files and Setup.zip SHA1: d515759cb23b99abba675014c3230ed776b28c40	34.04 MB
01 - Overview.zip SHA1: 852bad93cfb9fa9f80b47ed93cca9580e27e0757	95.26 MB
02 - Building Workflows.zip SHA1: 68ac8c6173620218f455afdd5ca9f14ad44ebf6d	123.06 MB
03 - Custom Activities.zip SHA1: 89183c20a0048bc0f8099e0c430196469087b731	136.50 MB
04 - Accessing Data from Workflows using Entity Framework.zip SHA1: e10838005a5925a924fa2865732555ebfcd275aa	70.68 MB
05 - Workflow Services.zip SHA1: c994f942201dbaa10c3d224dac9bb51c691d6d2d	197.44 MB
06 - SharePoint 2010 Integration.zip SHA1: e27f90406bbb438b3d4ba87033068d2ffeb61229	137.35 MB
07 - Calling Workflows from ASP.NET and Silverlight.zip SHA1: 24333a07e89f1cc7ae88cafda46ef15db7caeb74	55.97 MB
08 - Debugging and Error Handling.zip SHA1: 7712f5e02d21124d4f83fbb51a7a60944a75521a	257.31 MB
09 - Deploying Workflow Services.zip SHA1: 8ffcc08dce5cbd46dd3ec32622a58f1605bbb227	90.03 MB
10 - AppFabric Configuration and Maintenance.zip SHA1: 8bfd3df8af1667e69c5b6535df703d27510e3df1	140.45 MB
Part 1 - Modules 00 to 05 Workflow Foundation.zip SHA1: 7116055e9e7728f9e611b26a3ba3b4bdf3763757	656.97 MB
Part 2 - Modules 06 to 10 Workflow and AppFabric.zip SHA1: 001b0d6046d92b5f30dc72db2d8392609dc33d3f	681.11 MB

File sizes and hashes are retrieved from the Wayback Machine’s indexes. They may not match the latest versions of files hosted on Microsoft servers.

• • • Windows 7
    • Windows Vista
    • Windows Server 2008
    • Windows Server 2003
    • Windows XP
  • Other products:
    • Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 or above
    • AppFabric Beta 1 or above

• The course is distributed in two versions:
  • Module by module: see the 11 parts below
  • Grouped by day into two large zip files below
  Download the desired modules and unzip the files into a directory to view the training.