All About WWF
SO Windows Workflow Foundation shipped today. We've been kicking it around for a bit now.

WWF is going to be the worflow engine for windows. It basically allows you to declarativly stitch together application logic into worflows. Not only does it support your typical 'Biztalk style' sequential workflow types but it also allows you to build state machine type workflows. You can either write them in code or.... wait for it..... you can declare them in XAML (though it's called XOML in the current drop). What this means is you could potentially stictch together a whole application out of components in just XML. Avalon would form the UI and WWF could be used to provide a state based execution engine. Slap a nice GUI UI around it and you've got a high productivity app builder that any old BA can use.

I'm going to post a bit over the next few days about some of the things that I've learnt around WWF thus far and some of the cool ideas that I've got for WWF.

I'll post some screen shots tonight once I'm back on my dev machine.