Chapter 3. Advanced Workflows

In this chapter, we will cover:

  • Creating a custom activity
  • Creating a custom activity for Sandboxed solution
  • Creating a state machine workflow
  • Adding a custom workflow status
  • Creating a pluggable workflow service

Introduction

In Chapter 2, Workflows we introduced sequential workflows that used out-of-the-box activities that are provided in Visual Studio 2010. Visual Studio 2010 provides 30 general workflow activities along with 26 Sharepoint specific activities. Not all of the 30 general workflow activities are supported in a SharePoint environment. The list of activities that are not supported in SharePoint environment is provided in Chapter 2. We have used many of the supported activities in our recipes in Chapter 2 ...

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