WF Azure Activity Pack CTP 1

The Microsoft WF Azure Activity Pack CTP 1 is the first community technology preview (CTP) release of Azure activities implementation based on Windows Workflow Foundation in .NET Framework 4.0 (WF4) and Windows Azure SDK. The implementation contains a set of activities based on Windows Azure Storage Service and Windows Azure AppFabric Caching Service, which enables developers to easily access these Azure services within a workflow application.

This Activity Pack includes the following activities:

For Windows Azure Storage Service - Blob

• PutBlob creates a new block blob, or replace an existing block blob.
• GetBlob downloads the binary content of a blob.
• DeleteBlob deletes a blob if it exists.
• CopyBlob copies a blob to a destination within the storage account.
• ListBlobs enumerates the list of blobs under the specified container or a hierarchical blob folder.

For Windows Azure Storage Service - Table

• InsertEntity<T> inserts a new entity into the specified table.
• QueryEntities<T> queries entities in a table according to the specified query options.
• UpdateEntity<T> updates an existing entity in a table
• DeleteEntity<T> deletes an existing entity in a table using the specified entity object.
• DeleteEntity deletes an existing entity in a table using partition and row keys.

For Windows Azure AppFabric Caching Service

• AddCacheItem adds an object to the cache, or updates an existing object in the cache.
• GetCacheItem gets an object from the cache as well as its expiration time.
• RemoveCacheItem removes an object from the cache.

WF Azure Activity Pack is also available via NuGet. You can type “Install-Package WFAzureActivityPack” in your package manager console to install the activity pack.