Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2012 Unleashed, Second Edition

Chapter 22. Embedding Workflow in Your Applications

In This Chapter

• Windows Workflow Fundamentals

• Working with the Built-In Workflow Activities

• Creating a Workflow Application

There are many types of applications you might encounter as a developer. You might build user interface controls, websites, rich clients, frameworks, services, data-driven reports, and more. There is a specific class of applications, however, that are created to manage a business process. A business process might involve many other applications, systems, and people. You may have even written an application like this. For example, you might have a library for processing an order. There may be a method on this library that knows how to identify the order, read some ...