May 2013
Intermediate to advanced
226 pages
4h 16m
English
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.
In order to use this recipe, you should have Visual Studio 2012 installed.
We are going to create a state machine workflow using the following steps: