A state machine is a very powerful technique to implement, although I would recommend that you consider a framework called StateLess by Nicholas Blumhardt (Autofaq creator), as it is an amazingly simple implementation of a state machine that avoids the unnecessary complexity of Windows Workflow. His approach avoids the issue of long running workflows being … Read more
You may need WF only if any of the following are true: You have a long-running process. You have a process that changes frequently. You want a visual model of the process. For more details, see Paul Andrew’s post: What to use Windows Workflow Foundation for? Please do not confuse or relate WF with visual … Read more
The only explanation I found helpful and well written is this one: http://www.wpftutorial.net/dependencyproperties.html Basically, DependencyProperties differ from regular properties in that they’re not just setters / getters for fields in the class, but they retrieve their actual values dynamically during runtime. The SetValue() method of DPs is pretty straightforward and sets the local value of … Read more