Which Style of Workflow When?

posted by  kevyn (54)  15 months ago (blogs.msdn.com)

Windows Workflow Foundation supports three basic styles of workflow:  Sequential, State Machine and Data-Driven. 

I get a lot of people asking me which style is right for their problem, so I thought I’d share my thoughts on this with you all.

Let’s start with a simple problem.  I want Fred to review a document, then Joe to approve it, and finally I want to send it to my customer.

This is an obvious Sequential style workflow.  To implement it, I create a Sequential Workflow project, add a sequence of Activities which ask Fred to review, Joe