Chapter 13. Crafting Custom Activities

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

As deep and functional as Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) is, it can’t possibly encompass everything you might want to achieve with your workflows. Even though WF is still very new to the development community, many freely distributed custom activities are already available, and you can be sure commercial-grade activities eventually will follow.

In this chapter, you’ll get a look inside WF by creating a new workflow activity, one that retrieves a file from a remote File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server. ...

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