Can anyone point to reference material about the future road map for WF technolgies? It's never to early to look ahead .

I'm especially interested in future designer plans. I am wondering if Microsoft or other companies are in the works to produce custom designer applications, such as possible Visio plug-in, which is tailored more towards business analyst user role and will strictly produce XAML.

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) as well as designers therefor, such as the Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation, will surely continue to evolve.

There is currently no reference material available regarding what such future evolutions would contain.  Visio integration has been identified as a an area where we are looking to partners to provide solutions/extensions for the designer(s).  Microsoft may or may not choose to provide such functionality at a later point, however it's still too early to say if (and if so when) that could be.  At this point, we're still maintaining our tool set as primarily developer centric.

Anna Lidman - MSFT

Hi Anna,

Thanks for the feedback. Are you aware of any partners considering visio plug-in or providing rehosted designer tools outside of Visual Studio?