Creating Workflow Services and Durable Services

Workflow services, new for .NET Framework 3.5, are Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services that are authored using workflows. Durable services are WCF services that use a persistence provider to persist state information after an operation has completed.

The following sections describe these two types of services in more detail.

In This Section

Workflow Services and Durable Services Overview

Supported Message Exchange Scenarios

Workflow Service Authoring Styles

How to: Configure a Workflow Service

How to: Enable Persistence for a Durable Service

How to: Host a Workflow Service in IIS

Security Considerations for Workflow Services and Durable Services

Conversations with Workflow Services

Dynamic Update Behavior for Workflow Services

Reference

ReceiveActivity

SendActivity

WorkflowServiceHost

Tutorial: Create a Durable Service

Tutorial: Create a Workflow Service

Using the ReceiveActivity Activity

Using the SendActivity Activity

See Also

Other Resources

Workflow Services Samples

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