Last week, we moved on to learn more about doing workflows in Visual Studio, starting with the basics and going on to Sequential and State Machine Workflows.

Sequential workflows are fairly straightforward, doing activities sequentially. You can also do certain parallel activities in a sequential workflow, we found out.

State Machine workflows are more event driven, in response to something else happening, which ‘triggers’ an activity in a workflow.

Then, we moved on to learning about custom task types, and associating InfoPath forms within the workflow itself. We also learned about Association, Initiation, Task and modification forms and how to integrate them with our Visual Studio projects.

This was all jammed into a short week (no Saturday, just two week nights), so it was a lot of information to digest.