Chapter 10. Using workflow with TFS

This chapter covers

  • Windows Workflow Foundation basics
  • Integrating WF with TFS

Many human interactions are inherently asynchronous. When working with a team of people, you may not always receive instant feedback. Your colleagues may need to perform the requested tasks on their own schedules and convey the results back to you later. Workflow technologies help manage long-running interactions between humans as well as systems. A workflow solution provides an overarching framework for orchestrating a group of activities that may run in sequence or in parallel—in a predefined or dynamic path, based on rules and events. Modern workflow systems support serialization in durable storage, sequential and state-machine ...

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