Pro WF 4.5

CHAPTER 3

Windows Workflow Activities

A workflow models a business process and coordinates the flow of work to be performed, but it is the role of the workflow’s activities to implement the actual execution of that work. A WF activity provides the most basic unit of work for building execution logic through code and provides a consistent approach rather than just defining logic with standard code.

Chapter 2 covered a couple of activities just to get you familiar with how they work, but if you are used to writing code, you will have noticed that most of the activities implemented many of the same logical patterns as code constructs. The only difference ...