Presenting Windows Workflow Foundation, Beta Edition

Presenting Windows Workflow Foundation is a premium reference that provides
information on a key part of WinFX, providing universally accessible and consistent
workflow technology for the Windows platform. Windows Workflow Foundation delivers
an API as part of WinFX and a workflow designer hosted in Visual Studio 2005.

The Windows Workflow Foundation supports development of both sequential and
state-based workflow involving both human and system interaction. Sequential
workflow is a map of activities that may be in series or parallel. State-based
workflow is a state machine where events cause transitions. Rules can be specified
that drive decision making in a workflow and can be updated easily at runtime.
Workflow can be created as a model and executed inside many host applications
including Windows Forms, console applications, or Web applications.

Key Scenarios that can be developed with Windows Workflow Foundation include:
Document management: The steps involved in the review and approval of shared
documents or other content.
Line of business application: The processing flow or business logic in an
extensible part of the application.
Website page flow: The flow of state variables between web pages.
IT management: Handling of common systems management processes.
Decision making logic: Where complex business logic is well described by
a sequential or state diagram.
Consumer: A common series of steps for consumer PC usage.





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