Best Workflow book available by Colin D. Blair

I read through all of the available books on WF and this was definitely the best. Pro WF has a lot of practical information missing in a lot of other books. In particular, the sections on rules, exception handling, and web service hosting are worth the price of the book all by themselves. If you want to know how, and why, to use WF in your real every-day programming then this is the book for you.

Clear and Thorough by Lawrence Parker (Atlanta, GA USA)

I am a colleague of the author's and recently got the opportunity to investigate using Workflow Foundation for a business application. Not knowing much about this component of .NET 3.0 and having only read some introductory material about it on MSDN, I found this book to be an excellent place to start learning it for real.

This book is very clear and thorough and works through the subject in an organized and methodical way. The fact that it's written by a single author is a benefit, since it gives a more coherent treatment of the subject than some technical books written by several (or even many) people.

The text includes solid examples that don't go overboard with irrelevant tangents. I was also impressed that the author tackled some of the more difficult aspects of this technology, like hosting the workflow designer in your own applications.

I would recommend this to anybody who wants to get a deeper understanding of Workflow Foundation.

A great book by A. Louis "Aby" (Fishers, IN USA)

This is a well written book that I have read in recent times. If you are .net developer and looking for the nuts of bolts of WF, you need this book. I have read only 3 chapters and already very impressed with the author. The author explains in DETAIL everything about workflow. In fact the author also explains about unit testing a workflow. Great Book!

Very Thorough By M

I've read a few books so far on WF and I find the MSDN documentation to lack details, and most other books to also not go into enough details. Pro WF answered all my questions where the other books did not and now that I have a good foundation in WF, I still go back to it to look up details of various topics.

Clear and Comprehensive By NewWorldMan (Milton Keynes, UK)

I bought this book a couple of months ago and was pleasantly surprised by how well-written and accessible it is. It manages to be both comprehensive and clearly explained, which is not always an easy thing to do. Also the fact that it's packed with runnable examples helps. Often when one finds tech samples online they don't run or else require some trial and error to get them to run! Highly recommended.

Nicely written book that covers the subject well By M. Randall (Wakefield, UK)

This book covers the subject area quite well and is up to date with the release version (unlike previous books that tended to suffer from the fact that they are based on the Beta versions of WF).

Bruce has a conversation writing style that I found to be quite easy to read. He ensures that all code is listed in the books and is available for free download. The examples are easy to follow, comprehensive and useful.

This book is a good entry point into the subject - although you should be aware that you are required to have a good understanding of C# and the .Net framework in general.

One minor gripe is that Apress charge an extra $ in order to download the electronic copy of the book. This seems a little steep as you've already paid for the paper version (and they quiz you with page/word questions to ensure you have it). Other Apress books have been free to download the electronic version in the past, so I don't know why they've changed their policy now - other than to earn extra revenue, of course!