This is the second article in the State Machine Workflow series and the fifth in the series titled Using SharePoint to automate Workflows. In this article we shall briefly examine the tools that are available to the workflow developer who plans to use SharePoint Server 2013. SharePoint 2013 comes with two workflow development platforms—the Workflow Manager and Visual Studio 2012....
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