Windows Workflow Foundation and Web Services

摘要

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is the programming model and tools for building "workflow-enabled" (a set of related activities representing specific business logic) Windows applications. The ultimate goal of WF is to simplify development of business processes in .NET. One of the activities that Windows Workflow provides is an activity for working with web services, along with several activities that let your workflow become a web service. In this article, I introduce the InvokeWebService activity, which lets you work with existing web services. I also introduce three other activities—WebServicelnput, WebServiceOutput, and WebServiceFault-that let you create your workflow as a web service.