Ken Getz is a developer, writer, and trainer, working as a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, LLC, a Microsoft Certified Partner. He has co-authored several technical books for developers, including the best-selling ASP.NET Developer’s Jumpstart, Access Developer’s Handbook series, and VBA Developer’s Handbook series. Ken co-authored AppDev’s C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET and ADO.NET courseware (http://www.appdev.com). Ken is a technical editor for Advisor Publications’ VB.NET Technical Journal, and he's a columnist for both MSDN Magazine and CoDe magazine. Ken speaks regularly at a large number of industry events, including Advisor Media’s Advisor Live events, FTP’s VSLive, and Microsoft’s Tech-Ed.

Do you find yourself creating common applications that manage flow of information? Doesn’t it seem like someone else must already have written the code to manage such things? In fact, Windows Workflow Foundation, free as part of the .NET Framework 3.0, takes care of all the infrastructure and plumbing for you. In this session, you’ll learn how you can use Windows Workflow to manage long-running Windows processes, and you’ll walk through creating a workflow that watches for files to appear in a folder, and then send email in response to the action.