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The purpose of this chapter is to provide a grand tour of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). It includes a high-level description of the major features of WF. The chapter also provides some necessary background information that will help you get the most out of the remaining chapters. Because of the summary focus of this chapter, it doesn’t contain much actual workflow code.

The chapter begins with a brief description of the features and capabilities that are included with WF. Following this, I provide an overview of the .NET assemblies and namespaces within them that are related to WF. Topics related to the activity life cycle are then discussed, ...

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