Customizing Windows Workflow Foundation 4.5: Unified and Scalable Application Development

Workflow defines the core business process in most of the applications and products. Moreover, workflows based on Workflow Foundation (WF) defines the core business logic in SharePoint and used for build automation in Team Foundation Server. Moreover, workflows can be hosted as a service to support the scalable application development.

Windows Workflow Foundation 4.5 Developer Guide explains various customization options through samples. It provides a quick reference about the custom activity development, custom activity designer, extension creation and various concepts like Bookmark, workflowdatacontext, persistence, and hosting the workflow as a service.

It covers various other aspects like Property Value Editor Development, Validation aspects, type converters and dynamic arguments which can be used in customizing workflows and activities.

•Understand the basics of Windows Workflow Foundation and the benefits
•Build workflows and customize those using custom activities and designers
•Host the workflow using Workflow Application and as a service
•Understand how to run the workflow across various application and devices using persistence