How to design a rule engine?

c# sql-server rule-engine
Socratees picture Socratees · Sep 18, 2008 · Viewed 31.2k times · Source

I'm supposed to create a simple rule engine in C#. Any leads on how I can proceed?. It's a minimalistic rule engine, and would use SQL server as the back end. Do we have any general blueprint or design patterns that generally apply to rule engines? What kind of .Net technologies can I use to design one? Any directions would be helpful. Thanks.

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Tom Kidd picture Tom Kidd · Sep 18, 2008

If you're using .NET 3.0 or later, you can use the Rules Engine of Windows Workflow Foundation without having to acutally use Workflow.

I've done this on a project, and you can use SQL or XML as the backend, and it works great. You can use the IDE that comes with the Workflow examples and put it in your own apps. It's excellent.

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