Windows Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation now have Go Live licenses.

Beta 2 of WF was released to the public today and it's got some great changes.

Make sure that you head to http://www.windowsworkflow.net/ to pick it up.

Make sure that you also grab the Hands on Labs from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5DF74E3B-FB51-4A94-A11D-DFF70288A8BB&displaylang=en

These give worked examples of almost all the key functionality in Windows Workflow Foundation. The team @ Kognition have spent the last month or so re-working and re-building these labs for Beta2.

My favourite of the labs is #10. We provide a fully worked example showing how to

1. Host the WF Designer in your own application
2. Set properties on your workflow activites at design time- including showing you how easy it is to do activity binding in your own designer.
3. Save and compile the workflows
4. Run the workflow