This was the my final session of this day and the end of PDC 08 :(

This session was about the “.NET Services” piece of the Azure Services Platform

With .NET 3.0 you had to host your workflow yourself, on your premise.
This PDC, we heard of two other options we now have:

You could use Dublin, also on-premise but provides with a lot of tools
You could now also use the .NET Workflow Service, a host for you workflow in the cloud!

So what does the Workflow Service consist of:

And what new activities do we get?

• The HttpSend activity is all about sending a request and getting a response.
  
• The HttpReceive is getting a request and sending a response
  
• The ServiceBusSend will let you send a message to the ISB
  
• The XPathRead will let you do an XPath on a piece of XML and act accordingly; so very suitable for content based routing

How will we be able to deploy and maintain our workflows to the cloud?

So you can do this by using the Azure portal, using .NET client API’s, calling the Azure SOAP web services directly and you can deploy a workflow from Visual Studio with just one mouse click (right click, deploy)