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Activities

Meaning in Life

CodeActivity

This activity represents a unit of custom code to execute

within the workflow.

IfElseActivity, WhileActivity

These activities provide basic looping and decision

support within a workflow.

InvokeWebServiceActivity,

These activities allow your workflow to interact with 

WebServiceInputActivity,

XML web services.

WebServiceOutputActivity,

WebServiceFaultActivity

SendActivity, ReceiveActivity

These activities allow you to interact with Windows

Communication Foundation services. Be aware that these

two activities are .NET 3.5 specific.

ConditionedActivity, GroupActivity

These activities allow you to define a group of related

activities that execute when a given condition is true.

DelayActivity, SuspendActivity,

These activities allow you to define wait periods as well 

TerminateActivity

as pause or terminate a course of action within a

workflow.

EventDrivenActivity,

These activities allow you to associate CLR events to a 

EventHandlingScopeActivity

given activity within the workflow.

ThrowActivity, FaultHandlerActivity

These activities allow you to raise and handle exceptions

within a workflow.

ParallelActivity, SequenceActivity

These activities allow you to execute a set of activities in

parallel or in sequence.

While the current number of intrinsic activities is impressive and provides a solid foundation

for many WF-enabled applications, you are also able to create custom activities that seamlessly

integrate into the Visual Studio IDE and the WF runtime engine.