Hosting Workflow Services Overview

This topic applies to Windows Workflow Foundation 4 (WF4).

Workflow services must be hosted to execute. The WorkflowServiceHost is the out-of-the-box workflow host that supports multiple instances, configuration, and WCF messaging (although the workflows aren’t required to use messaging in order to be hosted). It also integrates with persistence, tracking, and instance control through a set of service behaviors. Just like WCF’s ServiceHost, the WorkflowServiceHost can be self-hosted in any managed .NET application, or web-hosted (as a .xamlx file) in IIS / WAS. Topics in this section describe how to host a workflow service.

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WorkflowServiceHost

WorkflowService

ServiceHostFactory

ServiceHostFactoryBase

WorkflowServiceHostFactory

Workflow Services

Build Date: 2012-03-02