Web Client Software Factory, ASP.NET and Workflow, I am confused
Today Michael Puleio presented a very early drop of the Web Client Software Factory. It didn't turn out very succesful, because he had a 30 minute old drop. The session did end up interesting as he showed where things are heading.
Solving the User Interface Proces Layer with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) sounds like an obvious choice. So the Web Client Software Factory will be doing this, but it seems the ASP.NET team and Patterns & Practices don't talk to each other...
Kashif Alam from the UI Frameworks team at Microsoft has presented several times already on the work they have doing on providing Pageflow capabilities with Windows Workflow Foundation:
WEB304 - ASP.NET: An Overview of ASP.NET and Windows Workflow Foundation Integration
Kashif Alam
This session explores designing, developing and debugging UI workflow applications. The next release of ASP.NET will provide a key integration point with Windows Workflow Foundation, enabling developers to build PageFlow scenarios making it easier to create representative UI for the business process layer. Come and learn the keys to UI workflow ranging across interactive activities, the hosting layer and the PageFlow design. Topics covered include the provider model for workflow persistence, communication mechanisms between the UI and the workflow runtime, parallelism and delays in an interactive workflow, and activity mappings available to the UI workflow developer.
http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032303083&culture=en-US
And there are two additional sessions when you search on Microsoft Events site for Kashif Alam.
Weird stuff.... curiuous where this is going!