The K2 Designer for Visual Studio is a fully integrated extension of Visual Studio 2005. It supports a full range of capabilities for process modeling, building and deployment of solutions. Developers simply drag and drop components onto the process-design canvas to build process-driven applications that can include client-based tasks, system integration and business logic.
Windows Presentation Foundation-based wizards guide the developer through configuration and automatically assemble the
Workflow Foundation schedules files, rules and activtities without the need for writing code. If the developer does need to extend the process, the K2 Designer for Visual Studio provides an interface for accessing the WF design canvas or the code editor.
In addition to providing a rich environment for building process-driven applications, the K2 Designer for Visual Studio provides an interface for assembling business entities that make use of business information that may exist across any number of line-of-business systems. These business objects, known as
SmartObjects, can be stored and
reused across all applications.