Creating a state machine workflow
State machines are not a new citizen of WF but are now here to stay as a solid part of WF. They have a new type of activity, the StateMachine activity, with two classes to help us define a state machine: state and transition. State helps us define a state that the machine can then be in and a transition helps us define which state changes can occur from a specific state.
In this recipe, we will see how to create a state machine workflow with WF 4.5, execute it, and debug it.
Getting ready
In order to use this recipe, you should have Visual Studio 2012 installed.
How to do it...
We are going to create a state machine workflow using the following steps:
- First open Visual Studio 2012, create a new project by navigating ...
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