Chapter 1. Introducing Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

Workflow. It sounds like some new technological buzzword, and in a sense, it is. But the concept of workflow stems from the need to process data quickly and accurately. If I were to conjure a definition for the term, I would define workflow as the basic tasks, procedures, people and organizations, system informational input and output, policies and rules, and tools needed for each step in a business process. That’s a very broad definition, but it often takes all these components to make a business process ...

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