Stateless Designer

Project Description

Visual Studio extension to support visual design of stateless state machines.

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About stateless

stateless is a lightweight C# hierarchical state machine framework made by Nicholas Blumhardt. The stateless project is hosted here: http://code.google.com/p/stateless/. If you don't know stateless, here is a comparison between stateless and Windows Workflow Foundation: Comparison between Stateless (on google code) and Windows Workflow. stateless also comes as a NuGet package: http://nuget.org/packages/Stateless. stateless is a great alternative to WWF.

About Stateless Designer

The goal for this projects is to allow software developers to design a state machines visually. Why a statemachine can improve your design. The true power of using a state machine is to have a graph showing the states with transitions. Stateless Designer can help you achieve this.

Stateless Developer use case:
- install Stateless Designer
- start Visual Studio
- create or open a C# project
- Add new Item to the C# project
- select Stateless State Machine
- design your state machine
- a C# class is created with your state machine

Getting started using Stateless Designer step-by-step.

Currently supported features

- Triggers without arguments
- OnEntry and OnExit delegates
- Reentrant transitions
- OnUnhandledTrigger delegate - new in Stateless Designer 1.3
- Guard Clauses: PermitIf and PermitReentryIf functionality - new in Stateless Designer 1.3

External articles

Twitter
www.dotnettips.info article 1168 - Note: Not in English
www.dotnettips.info article 1169 - Note: Not in English

Technology used

- Visual Studio Extensibility
- stateless

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