Wednesday, January 18, 2006
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Go Live licenses for WCF and WF

Microsoft announced Go Live licenses this morning for WCF (Windows Communication Foundation / “Indigo”) and WF (Windows Workflow Foundation), which allow customers to use the January Go Live releases of WCF and WF in their deployment environments.  (Note that these are unsupported Go Lives.) 

More information about the Go Live program is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/winfx/getthebeta/golive/default.aspx.

There are also WCF and WF community sites, at:

http://windowscommunication.net

http://windowsworkflow.net

The community sites are intended to give users everything needed to start using WCF and WF today.

Microsoft .NET
Wednesday, January 18, 2006 1:13:41 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [2]  |  Related posts:
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006 7:28:14 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
are wf and wcf a replacement for .net? if so, what is the point of using .net?
mark
Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:05:59 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
A replacement? Not at all.

WCF is, perhaps, a "replacement" for Web Services, Remoting, DCOM, MSMQ and WSE, though all those technologies remain supported too.

WF is often charaterized as a subset of the Biztalk Server orchestration engine that runs in your application's process. But I tend to think of WF as more like a very sophisticated scripting tool that lets you string your components/objects together in complex and maintainable ways.
Rockford Lhotka
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