Creating a state machine

This first recipe is all about creating a state machine for vehicle inspection. In Chapter 14, Workflow Development, we created a workflow task and an inspection status field. In this recipe, we will use a state machine to handle the inspection status change logic.

Getting ready

We need to have a table with a status field with an initial and final status, such as the InspStatus field we added to the ConWHSVehicleTable table in Chapter 14, Workflow Development. In this recipe, we will use the main vehicle management project.

How to do it...

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