Is there any free usable component for workflow editor/designer?

.net workflow workflow-foundation workflow-engine
Louis Rhys picture Louis Rhys · Oct 20, 2010 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source

I am trying to find a .NET component that allows GUI (drag-and-drop) workflow design, and I need it as a part of a bigger software so I prefer it to be a usable component. What I imagine is it is similar to the GUI used to design workflows in Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. Is there any such component? I tried searching for a while and didn't have any luck. The best I could find are these

but I don't think any of the items in those list are compatible with my requirements. has anyone been looking for this and found a good component? I am looking for a free one, and open source is even better if possible.

Answer

Aliostad picture Aliostad · Oct 20, 2010

Workflow designer from Windows workflow foundation can be used as a control (re-hosted) and comes with all the funcatuionality:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc835242.aspx

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