Essential Windows Workflow Foundation

Acknowledgments

THE WF PROJECT BEGAN IN EARNEST about three years ago. A small team of engineers felt strongly that there was substantial promise in a few novel ideas about how to change the way programs are built. Our first trial by fire was proving to the Microsoft Office team that our brand-new technology was the right foundation for their planned workflow features. Things accelerated with that success, and we are proud that the first public release of WF will be a part of the .NET Framework 3.0 released with Microsoft Windows Vista (WF also underlies the workflow features in Microsoft Office 2007). Many people helped improve the design of WF as it underwent revision and refinement along the way to its public release. It is impossible to thank ...