Invoking a Workflow from a MVC RC2 web application

Introduction

The Microsoft application development platform WF (Windows Workflow Foundation) has added a lot of new capabilities to the development and the ultimate communication between applications; in this article we will demonstrate how to invoke a rule based Workflow from a MVC based application. The application we will build will allow a consultant to calculate the daily, monthly and yearly rate from an input amount.

ASP.NET MVC Overview (C#)

The Model-View-Controller (MVC) architectural pattern separates an application into three main components: the model, the view, and the controller. The ASP.NET MVC framework provides an alternative to the ASP.NET Web Forms pattern for creating MVC-based Web applications. The ASP.NET MVC framework is a lightweight, highly testable presentation framework that (as with Web Forms-based applications) is integrated with existing ASP.NET features, such as master pages and membership-based authentication. The MVC framework is defined in the System.Web.Mvc namespace and is a fundamental, supported part of the System.Web namespace. More………