Pro WF 4.5

Introduction

Now that you have picked up this book and are curious enough to read this introduction, let me share with you how Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) can help you to be a better developer. WF is a Microsoft .NET technology that provides a fascinating way to develop software by defining workflows instead of writing conventional code.

Building workflows is an exercise in which visual models or diagrams represent how logic will flow. The first chapter quickly explains why workflows are important and walks through different ways of modeling scenarios outside of WF. Since building workflows is quite different from writing code, this chapter will give you a visual grounding in modeling processes if you are new to modeling.

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