MS CRM Dynamics 4.0 incorporates the MS WF engine. The built in designer allows the creation of sequential workflows whos activities have native access to CRM entities.
Is it possible to:
State machine workflows provide a modeling style with which you can model your workflow in an event-driven manner. A StateMachine activity contains the states and transitions that make up the logic of the state machine, and can be used anywhere an activity can be used.
in an action you are full in control. The advantage of an action is that you can register plugin steps on it. That means that you can write your own handling the way you want. Using workflows means that you are more limited to the tools CRM is providing.
A Custom Workflow Activity Plugin is very similar to a Plugin exempt that it is executed from within a CRM Workflow, Whereas Plugins Are executed on Events that Occur on the Entity, So workflow Activities give you more control when the plugin will be executed as well as allowing you to configure some logic through the ...
You can use the document type definition (DTD) of XML to define entities in the workflow definition file. Entities are external files, fragments, or variables that can be referenced within the workflow definition file.
It is possible to create no code workflow...
http://blogs.msdn.com/jonasd/archive/2008/01/21/Creating-a-no_2D00_code-workflow-for-CRM-4.0-with-Visual-Studio-2005-_2800_2008_2900_.aspx
and take a look at the other thread...
Is is possible/a good idea to edit workflows in Visual Studio?
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