Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 Cookbook

Foreword

Microsoft has been putting a lot of resources toward the development of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Therefore, before learning this new framework, it's important to understand why Microsoft feels it is so important. For WF 4.0, Microsoft went back to the drawing board and did a complete rewrite of WF technology with the goals of improving WF 3.5 by providing a WF framework that simplifies the development of workflow-based solutions and provides better performance. Microsoft's ultimate goal is to get a higher rate of adoption of WF and to attempt to make WF an essential component of the enterprise developer's tool kit. The questions that most developers and architects, who are first exposed to workflow, will be likely to have are: ...