Recently I’ve been trying to learn more and more about how to use the windows workflow foundation (WF), especially to see how it would be useful to have that functionality in ASP.NET websites, web services and SharePoint Sites. I recently been reading articles about it, also completed a very good and free e-learning course from Microsoft called Clinic 5136: Introduction to Developing with Windows® Workflow Foundation and Visual Studio® 2005. The clinic contains good interactive material like how-to videos and self-tests, that helped me and will help you get up to speed with Windows Workflow Foundation (WF).

You can start creating Windows workflow foundation projects if you have the beta version for Visual Studio 2008 or if you have the Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (Windows Workflow Foundation) Unfortunately I don’t have Visual Studio 2005 installed in my computer; I use the express products for the 2005 and 2008 (Orcas) editions.

So basically in order for you to be able to create workflow foundation project, looks like there are several options:

1. Get yourself a copy of Visual Studio 2005 (except express editions) and install the .NET 3.0 Extension that will allow you to create and run workflow foundation projects. If you are not able to get VS2005, in a future post I’ll explain how you can get a full working copy of visual studio 2005 standard editions (value $299) for only 10$.
2. Download and install the Visual Studio 2008 beta 1 from Microsoft.

    

Visual C# 2005 Express Edition: Available projects by default.

Visual C# Codename “Orcas” Express Edition: Available projects by default.

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