Lots of SharePoint 2010 State Machine Workflow Tutorials & Development Resources

In this post, I have listed many tutorials to help you create State Machine Workflows in SharePoint 2010.

How Do I: Create State Machine Workflows for SharePoint 2010 in Visual Studio 2010?

(Video) Visual Studio 2010 provides a template for a State Machine workflow that enables developers the opportunity to build workflow solutions for SharePoint using a graphical design surface.

 

Creating SharePoint 2010 State Machine Workflows in Visual Studio 2010

Learn how to use the State Machine Workflow template in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 to build a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 state machine workflow

 

Workflows in Sharepoint 2010 Tutorial -Step1/20: What’s new

Based natively on the Workflow Foundation engine, Sharepoint 2007 was the first version of SharePoint that made usage of workflows quite popular among Microsoft end users and .Net developers.

 

SharePoint 2010 State Machine Workflows with Custom Task Forms (InfoPath) using VS 2010 – Part 1

2 Part tutorial on SharePoint 2010 Custom State Machine Workflows with Custom Task forms in InfoPath 2010. An example based tutorial, where I simulate the Recruitment Process of an organization. .. Workflows are systems that manage the execution of a business process. They are primarily described as a process that manage the flow of work among various individuals, or divisions, or multiple organizations.

SharePoint 2010 State Machine Workflows with Custom Task Forms (InfoPath) using Visual Studio 2010: Part 2 of 2

As mentioned in part 1 of the tutorial, we can use custom task forms instead of the default task forms provided by SharePoint. Default forms have fixed number of fields which cannot be altered. Using custom forms, we can gather the required information from the user and they also make the process more dynamic and flexible.

 

Water Cooler Demo: SharePoint state machine workflows

I can’t think of a better way to introduce this series than opening the spigot (wow, I am so going to have fun throwing out bad water puns and references) and showing off how to create a somewhat complex business process using a minimal amount of code and completing the basic functionality within 20 minutes.

 

SharePoint State Machine Workflow tutorial

Back when I was tasked with making a SharePoint workflow, everytime I googled it, I kept finding a tutorial about how to create a sequential workflow. The problem was that I needed a state machine workflow.

 

SharePoint 2010 State Machine Workflows using Visual Studio 2010 Part 1

As compared to Sequential Workflows which always progresses forward and never goes back (although using a while loop you can reiterate through same steps multiple times), the State Machine Workflows moves from one state to another, until the workflow concludes by reaching the completed state.

 

SharePoint 2010 : Workflow Modeling and Development Tools (part 2) – Visual Studio 2010 & Workflow Modeling Tools Comparison

Visual Studio 2010 is a development tool for developing various types of applications and services. It provides development project types for different SharePoint customizations and project templates for SharePoint 2010 workflows.

 

Creating SharePoint 2010 State Machine Workflows in Visual Studio 2010

Learn to create state machine workflows for SharePoint 2010 in Visual Studio 2010

 

Water Cooler Demo – SharePoint Visual Studio workflows for escalations

Our first episode of The Water Cooler Demo show, the show focused on all things Office related.  In this episode, Kirk Evans demonstrates how to create a SharePoint state machine workflow using Visual Studio 2008 that accomodates escalations and timeouts.

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Introduction to Workflows Sequential Workflow State Machine Workflow Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 Windows Sharepoint Services 4.0 Workflow Styles Workflow Types Workflows
…  the exact order of activity execution can vary. State machine workflows Represents a set of states, transitions, and actions. One …
Tags: windows sharepoint services 3.0, Windows Sharepoint Services 4.0, Workflows, Sequential Workflow, State Machine Workflow, Workflow Types, Workflow Styles, Introduction of Workflows

Use sequential or State machine workflow in SharePoint?
…  workflow advantages: 1. easier to implement State machine workflow advantages 1. You can also use sequential parts in the …
Tags: SharePoint, WWF

Sequential Workflow Vs State Machine Workflow
…  of the box in Visual Studio are: * Sequential Workflow * State Machine Workflow Below, find the differences between them, so that when you …
Tags: SharePoint

state machine != workflow engine
…  two quotes that are enlightening when thinking about state and workflow. update (2011) : a discussion between two engineers about …  engines. I’m listing workflow engine and state machine implementations for Ruby at the end of this post. There are a number …
Tags: Workflow, Rules, openwferu, ruote, State Machine, Ruby

SharePoint State Machine Workflow (automatic tasks completion if the user did not act)
…  user do not act within the specified time. I had to use State Machine workflow template due to the nature of the workflow; so i added …
Tags: Sharepoint 2010

Windows Workflow Foundation: Hosting workflows, creating machine state workflows (Part I)
…  of the issues that the project team had was: how to host a state machine workflow, how to register services, and how to communicate my UI to the …
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Source code of a demo on Windows Workflow state machine duplex WCF services WPF and Silverlight
…  a new open source project I have done on Windows Workflow state machine, duplex WCF services TCP duplex and Silverlight polling, WPF and …

Automatic State Transition Using the State Machine Workflow 3.5
Figure 1: A small Microsoft Workflow Foundation (WF) 3.5 State Machine diagram with 2 states; the eventDrivenActivity1 contains a …
Tags: Programming and Scripting

Event [EventName] on interface type [InterfaceName] for instance ID [GUID] cannot be delivered. error in state machine workflow
…  a strange error when I try the state machine workflow. Event [EventName] on interface type [InterfaceName] for instance ID …

Creating State Machine Workflows – Step by Step Windows Application – Part I
…  state machine workflow is all about different states a program execution is in. Take for …  what you have just completed is the first step in your state machine workflows. The first step of State Machine says identify your …

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State machine workflow in VS 2010
… but dont know how to create a state machine workflow in VS 2010. The only option i get in creating … I have a simple web application (non sharepoint) in which i want to add window workflow. I am using … Worflow 4. Console I want that workflow

state machine modeling workflow

… I am having real trouble modeling this as a state machine… in uml. My problem domain is this: I have a workflow, which involves adding approvals A, B ,C, D. they can only be allowed to be added … point from the workflow rendering it unapproved. some

Custom Completed Status in SharePoint State Machine Workflow
… Is it possible to override the “Completed” status in a SharePoint state machine workflow. I’ve successfully used ExtendedStatusColumnValues in the workflow to update the status along the way, but my … of a completed workflow read “Final” instead of completed. I

State Machine Workflow designer for Windows WF
… I want a designer for State Machine Windows WF, I find a sample code from microsoft and host visual studio desginer of Sequence Workflow in a Windows app, but I can’t use it for State Machine , Is there any desginer for State Machine or can I host

State Machine Persistence WorkFlow
… Hey all, I have created a WinForms to handle Persistence Activities using the Windows WorkFlow … is this, I’m able to work with 1 workflow at a time … form, I’d like to be able to create a new WorkFlow … of the WorkFlow. I’m relatively new to the WorkFlow

State machine workflow – VB.NET
… I am creating a very simple state machine class library project in vb.net. This has only 3 states – CreateApplication, ProcessApplication and CompleteApplication. I have an interface created in the same project.I am invoking it from a web

State Machine WF: Issues with workflow termination
… We have a state machine workflow for maintaining the state of an application submitted by a user … to workflow termination. In one of the states, I had a bug. When the application reached that state, it threw … of the workflow was called and the particular

Workflow Design Dilemma – State Machine, yes or no
… state, and there are thousands of items. The question is, do I create a state machine workflow … . However, a state-machine workflow logically sounds … correctly, if I create a single state machine … of individual items which have a state: Spare

Exchanging data with activity event in state machine workflow
… In a event driven activity in a stage in state machine workflow, when an event occurs how can I send some data to work flow and send some data back … don’t use SetState activity, can I set next state of the workflow programmatically?

WorkflowMarkupSerializer doesn’t keep positions in a state machine workflow
… a statemachine workflow – it saves the states OK … the workflow is here: using (XmlWriter … , workflow); } The code to read the workflow is: DesignerSerializationManager … )) { //deserialize the workflow from

Should I use a state machine or a sequence workflow in WF?
… my workflow to make it a state machine to follow … workflow and that’s how I have it so far, with COM … to suspend the workflow while I manually do this piece

To Workflow or Not to Workflow?
… or is there an alternative technology (I.E., Simple State Machine, etc … are looking at using Windows Workflow (.NET 4.0 … ). On the surface it seems that Workflow is indeed … developers who understand or know Workflow … a feeling that Windows Workflow has a steep learning

How do I get data out of a state machine workflow before the workflow enters its completed state?
… I’m working with a state machine workflow … events in the host and get data into the workflow via … of the workflow and I’m having difficulties. The outputparameters are only available in the workflow completed event, but my workflow isn’t complete

Re-running workflow state in wf 4.0 state machine
… I have created a State machine workflow in WF 4.0 and it has following steps. State 1 : RunExe State 2: LoadData State 3: VerifyData state 4: ExportData State 5: Complete Each of above state will have a recevie and send activity which contains

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SharePoint 2010 State Machine Workflow Tutorial
Tutorial on how to build a state machine workflow in SharePoint 2010.

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