Creating State Machine Workflows – Step by Step Windows Application – Part II
In Part I, we learnt how to create a state machine workflow from a restaurant story. Now let’s learn how to host this state machine in a Windows Forms application. Since a workflow by its own cannot work, it needs to be hosted in some type of application which can be a Windows, Web, or [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Creating State Machine Workflows – Step by Step Windows Application – Part I
A state machine workflow is all about different states a program execution is in. Take for example Ordering a coffee at a restaurant. How it will go:
1. You order for coffee.
2. Coffee is getting prepared
3. Coffee is delivered
Now think of the above steps as a states in .NET Workflow world and guess what you have [...]
Types of Workflows and selecting the best one
WorkFlow Foundation (WF) is a .NET 3.0 technology for managing workflows. Workflow can be thought of as a series of task that needs to be completed either sequentially or parrallely, completing one activity at a time in a pipeline
.NET Workflow are of two types:
1. State Machine Workflow
2. Sequential Worflow
The good question is: how to decide [...]
Creating Workflows – Step by Step Console Application
Many of us need a quick guide on how to create Workflows in a step by step approach which would help us not only today but also in future.
So I thought I would create that guide for all of us. Presented below is a step by step approach of using Workflow foundation and creating Sequential [...]
