Chapter 2. The Workflow Runtime

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

When you execute tasks in the Workflow Foundation (WF) environment, something needs to oversee that execution and keep things straight. In WF, that something is an object known as WorkflowRuntime. WorkflowRuntime starts individual workflow tasks. WorkflowRuntime fires events for different situations that pop up while your tasks execute. And WorkflowRuntime keeps track of and uses pluggable services you can hook in to the execution environment. (We’ll look at some of these pluggable services starting in Chapter 5.)

The overall WF ...

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