A founding member of the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) team, Dharma played a key role in defining the architecture of WF. Bob Schmidt is a senior program manager at Microsoft working on next-generation programming models. Since 2003, his primary focus has been on the design of WF. Both authors have been involved with the WF project since its inception, and have been responsible for specifying, designing, and developing large portions of the technology. Contents About the Authors xiii Foreword xv Preface xvii Acknowledgments xxi 1 Deconstructing WF 1 2 WF Programs 33 3 Activity Execution 53 4 Advanced Activity Execution 111 5 Applications 179 6 Transactions 241 7 Advanced Authoring 259 8 Miscellanea 325 Appendix A Activity Automaton 395 Appendix B Control Flow Patterns 397 Index 435 ...Continua Nascondi