Stuart Celarier is Chief Software Architect of Aivea, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in Connected Systems. His career spans more than two decades of development, architecture, writing, and training, with a focus on new and emerging technologies. His professional interests include the current and next generations of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), “Oslo” modeling platform, “Dublin” application server extensions, “Geneva” claims framework, .NET Framework 4.0, and Windows Azure.
Stuart is co-founder of Portland Code Camp and frequently speaks at .NET user groups, conferences, and community events. He is a member of the Software Association of Oregon’s Development SIG committee. Stuart is an INETA Speaker and has volunteered with INETA since 2003, including co-chairing the community-led Birds-of-a-Feather track at Tech•Ed 2005–2009 and PDC 2005.

Stuart blogs at http://visualstuart.net

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) released as part of .NET 3.0 in late 2006, and yet I frequently meet people who haven’t used WF even when it seems to be ideally suited to their task at hand. Often that is due to not knowing the essence of workflow: why, what, and how? These are the three essential things that everyone needs to know about a technology before we can start making critical decisions about when, where, or even if we should use it. Why does it exist: what is the fundamental problem that it solves? What does it do: what does the solved problem look like? And how does it work: what is going on underneath the hood to make it happen? And this is absolutely key to success with WF, since WF is a radically different kind of technology to most of us. This talk is a deep, solid introduction to WF. I’ll examine the why and what of WF so that we have a common context, and then explore the mechanics using several small demos to illustrate just how WF works. I’ll also take a look at what’s coming down the road for WF in .NET 4.0. You’ll take away an understanding of the core of WF so that you can make informed decisions about using WF and you’ll have a good framework for exploring WF further

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