Workflow Authoring Styles 

Windows Workflow Foundation supports multiple workflow-authoring styles, such as sequential, state machine, and data-driven. The sequential style is straightforward and useful for repetitive, predictable operations that are always the same. The state machine workflow style consists of a set of event-driven states. The data-driven style relies on data to determine whether or not certain activities are run based on a local data state.

For more information about these workflow authoring styles, see Sequential Workflows, State Machine Workflows, and Using Conditions in Workflows.

See Also

Concepts

Sequential Workflows
State Machine Workflows
Using Conditions in Workflows

Other Resources

Developing Workflows

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