What is the AppFabric Dashboard and what is the relationship to Infinity workflows?

Infinity workflows are built using the Windows Workflow Foundation. Infinity workflows are services that live within and are managed by the Windows Server AppFabric. Think of Windows Server AppFabric as foundational plumbing that you do not have to write as a software developer and is used for running and managing your services, such as your Infinity workflows. The Infinity Integrated Application Workflows (IAWs) that we author using the Infinity SDK will need to be long running and durable. Meaning our workflows could last for weeks as the logic within the workflow designer traverses each step in the workflow, waits for input from a human, automates Infinity features, branches, loops, etc. For long-running services and coordinated interactions across many services, AppFabric manages the lifetime and scaling of Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) workloads as well, since Infinity workflows in AppFabric are also services.