Introduction

Before diving into programming with Microsoft Windows Workflow Foundation, or WF, it’s important to understand what workflow is and why you’d want to invest the effort to learn how to use it. After all, learning new technology means that you have to, well, take the time to learn the new technology. The learning curve can be painful. There are new tools, new ways to think about your applications, and so forth. Given your time investment to learn WF, what sort of return on your investment can you expect? Is it worth learning, or is it just a passing fad?

Workflow, at least as I believe WF most closely defines it, is simply a term that is applied to software that executes in a more rigorous environment. What software? Essentially, the ...

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