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(or Designing Your Workflow Activity Class Hierarchy) One of the questions that we've had to consider when designing our Workflow Activity Class Hierarchy is whether it is valuable to have our own Activity base class (derived from Activity and inherited Read More...

In my previous blog post ( Creating an Asynchronous Workflow Activity ), I explained why your custom activities should either be really fast or run asynchronously. But, I didn't give you a real world example of how to do this. In this post I provide an Read More...

What a silly topic for a blog post! Workflow already runs my whole activity tree on a another thread, I don't have to worry about being Async, Do I? Yes, you do. While it is true that each Workflow gets its own thread (in the default setup), that thread Read More...

This post continues my quest to learn more about Windows Workflow and share that experience with you. It assumes knowledge of Windows Workflow. If you don't understand some of the concepts please take a look at one of the books that I mentioned in my Read More...

Team Build is a build workflow tool. It manages how and when builds are performed. Currently (in VS2005 and VS2008), that workflow was written in the language of MSBuild. This allows us a lot of flexibility and power on the machine that runs the build. Read More...