Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Unleashed

Develop an Application/Business Process

A workflow represents a set of actions (called activities) that typically model a business process and often involve user interaction. WF provides the framework, tools, and an execution engine for enabling workflows in your application. With it, you can create a workflow and know that it runs wherever the .NET Framework is installed.

You create a workflow model to describe the order and logic of how activities are to be executed based on the data in the workflow, your business rules and conditions, and system and user actions. A workflow is executed and managed by a workflow instance object. This object is run in process with your application and controls the execution and current state of the workflow. ...