State Machine Activity Designers
Windows Workflow Designer includes a number of activity designers that you can use when constructing your workflows. This section contains the system-provided activity designers used to create and manage state machine workflows. The following topics describe these designers and provide guidance on how to use them.
Note
State machine functionality in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) was introduced as part of the Update 4.0.1 for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (KB2478063). To create state machine workflow applications in Visual Studio 2010, the Update 4.0.1 for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 – Design-time Package for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 (KB2495593) is required. For more information and instructions on how to download and configure these updates, see Update 4.0.1 for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 Features.
In This Section
- StateMachine Activity Designer
Contains a collection of states and models workflows using the familiar state machine paradigm.
- State Activity Designer
Represents a state in which a state machine can be in.
- FinalState Activity Designer
Represents a state that terminates a state machine instance.
- Transition Activity Designer
Represents the transition between two states.
Reference
Related Sections
For other types of activity designers, see the following topics.
Control Flow Activity Designers
Transaction Activity Designers
Error Handling Activity Designers
Build Date: 2012-03-02