Rehosting the Workflow Designer

Abstract

Each chapter thus far has focused on building workflows with in VS2012, which is primarily the integrated development environment (IDE) for building .NET software. There are several development tools within Visual Studio, including WE that also provide their own visual software designers. For instance, ASP.NET/MVC has its own web designer for visually designing and changing a web page’s HTML.Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) also has a designer for adding user controls and changing the XAML used to render rich client user interfaces (OI). Finally, Entity Framework (EF), which abstracts the data plumbing code between applications and databases, also has a designer for modeling relationships among table structures within a database.