posted on Saturday, January 13, 2007 5:50 PM by Benjy

Choosing between Biztalk and WF

Although there are lots of differences between these systems (notably one being a product and the other just being a framework), there remains quite a lot of confusion for some people in trying to choose which to use. I came across a couple of good articles with information to help you make a decision between Biztalk and WF for certain projects where it may not be crystal clear.

1.  David Chappells excellent Introduction to Windows Workflow Foundation at : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnlong/html/WFIntro.asp
and
2. Irena Kennedys post on Biztalk or Workflow at :http://softlogger.com/4314/BizTalk/SYSK-216--BizTalk-Orchestration-or-Windows-Workflow-Foundation.aspx

Hope you find these articles useful if you are at such a decision point.

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# re: Choosing between Biztalk and WF

Friday, May 25, 2007 12:54 PM by Marco
Santosh,

If you have Biztalk-06 projects and you would like to see how the rule policies would behave in a WF solution, you could try the latest version of the Rule Manager from Acumen Business.
The rule manager can import Biztalk policies and can export them to the new WF rules format, together with a complete Visual Studio 2005 solution.

You can also create and maintain business rules that targets to the WF rules engine.

Note this only addresses the rules part. It does nothing with the BizTalk workflow.

The free demo, can export the the Car Diagnosis example as a complete solution. Hope you like it.