Exceptions, Transactions, and Compensation

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

WF provides several different mechanisms for handling run-time error conditions in workflows. Workflows can use a combination of exception handlers, transactions, cancellation, and compensation to handle and recover gracefully from error conditions.

In This Section

• Exceptions
  Demonstrates how to use the TryCatch activity to handle exceptions in a workflow.

• Workflow Transactions
  Demonstrates how to use the TransactionScope activity to use transactions in a workflow.

• Compensation
  Describes compensation in workflows and demonstrates how to use compensation activities such as CompensableActivity, Compensate, and Confirm.

• Modeling Cancellation Behavior in Workflows
  Describes how to perform cancellation handling in workflows using built-in activities as well as custom activities.

• Debugging Workflows
  Describes how to debug workflows.

Build Date: 2012-03-02