K2 Studio

K2 Studio is a "codeless" design environment for creating blackpearl applications. The K2 Designer presents similar tooling to the K2 Designer for Visual Studio environment in a familiar format utilizing a context relevant ribbon. Any projects created in this environment can be opened in K2 Designer for SharePoint or K2 Designer for Visual Studio. The workflows created within the K2 Studio enables integration with Microsoft Office, Microsoft InfoPath and Microsoft SharePoint, along with a number of other third-party software packages.

With the K2 Studio, developers simply drag and drop components onto the process-design canvas. Windows Presentation Foundation-based wizards — including wizards for integrating with technologies like SharePoint, sending e-mail and displaying ASP.NET or Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007 forms — guide the developer through configuration and automatically generate the underlying definitions, Workflow Foundation schedules files, rules and activities. Developers may use a K2-provided SDK to develop their own custom wizards. Processes built in K2 are extensible.

Process debugging is available, allowing developers to access executing processes.