Presenting Windows Workflow Foundation, Beta Edition

Chapter 3. March Through the Activities

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Table of Activities

• Control Flow Activities

• Workflow Lifetime Activities

• Event Waiting Activities

• Transaction and Exception Activities

• Data-Centric Activities

• Web Services Activities

• The Code Activity

• State Workflow Activities

• Custom Activities

Activities are the building blocks of a workflow. A number of activities are provided in the Visual Studio 2005 toolbox to create basic workflows. You can also easily create your own activities, which can be added to the toolbox for use in your workflows.

As such, activities are the first point of extensibility for Windows Workflow Foundation. Custom activities can be built that are treated the same as primitive activities that come with Windows Workflow Foundation. ...