I wrote an article this morning that mentioned that the wf4 state machine was coming soon.
Address: http://wf.codeplex.com/releases/view/43586
WF state machine activity pack CTP 1
The Microsoft WF state machine activity pack CTP 1 is the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) release of a state machine implementation based on Windows Workflow Foundation in. NET framework 4 (WF 4 ). the implementation contains not only a state machine runtime but also a graphical state machine designer.
Wf ado. net activity pack CTP 1 is also released
The Microsoft wf ado. net activity pack CTP 1 is the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) Release of ADO. net activities Implementation Based on Windows Workflow Foundation in. NET framework 4 (WF 4 ). the implementation contains a set of activities as well as designers Based on ADO. NET data providers , Which enable access to a database through SQL commands or stored procedures within a workflow.
The Microsoft wf ado. net activity pack CTP 1 Activities des the following three activities:
- ExecutesqlqueryActivity allows you to query a database using SQL statement or stored procedure and process the query result.
- Executesqlquery <t>Activity allows you to get a collection of objects from the query result to be used in the workflow.
- ExecutesqlnonqueryActivity allows you to modify Database Using SQL statement or stored procedure, such as insert, update and delete.
Here is an introduction: http://blogs.msdn.com/flow/archive/2010/04/21/wf-state-machine-activity-pack-ctp1-released.aspx
Let's get started.