Workflow Foundation for Scheduled Process

Question

Is Workflow Foundation a good option for creating a scheduled process for a customer rebilling solution? The process needs to run daily and interact with a data layer as well as a web service. In the past, I have defaulted to using SSIS and either a Scheduled Task or SQL Server Agent job to handle the scheduling.

Any input is appreciated.

Answer 1

On Channel 9 (endpoint.tv) there are two webcasts that address a scenario where Workflow Foundation is used for a batch job implementation.

• Workflow Services as a Batch Job
• AppFabric AutoStart and WF4 Batch Job Example

I have used WF myself for some simple scheduled processes inside a Windows service and I must say that I'm very satisfied with the result.