The Connected Framework Rules Team Blog

A couple of months ago, we posted a new sample on our community site which is based on the UServ Product Derby scenario showcased at the Business Rules Forum . At the webcast a few weeks back , I briefly mentioned this sample as one that showcases a lot...

I am doing another webcast on WF Rules, this time more advanced and extensibility scenarios. Cheers, Kavita

I will be giving a webcast on Introduction to WF Rules. Hope to see you there. http://blogs.msdn.com/kavitak/archive/2007/05/17/intro-to-wf-rules-webcast.aspx Cheers, Kavita

Acumen Business has added support fow Windows Workflow Foundation in their Business Analyst friendly Rule Manager product. Acumen's solution went up on Microsoft's Solution Showcase site a few weeks back. In addition to the InRule support that also...

Congratulations to InRule, who have released their InRule™ for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF). Theresa O'Neil, VP of Business Development at InRule, passed along this exciting information yesterday. InRule for WF provides end-users the ability to author...

I wrote a small sample that shows how you can create Rules using the Object Model we expose, without any tooling etc. This is useful if you're writing custom editors or if you're converting rules / expressions in some form into WF Rules. You can check...

The first .NET Framework 3.5 "Orcas" CTP has been released ! The .NET Framework 3.5 brings no breaking changes. New technology is being added including LINQ, AJAX, WF, WCF and WPF Developer Tools and BCL Enhancements. The release will ship with Visual...

I just wanted to post a quick note that the rules team is interested in getting feedback from you on the samples we're posting on the community site - http://wf.netfx3.com - If you'd like to see specific samples, please contact us and give us feedback...

Another tester on the team, Charlie, wrote a sample to demonstrate how a rule can be authored against XML data. Read about it here Kavita

Maggie, a tester on the Rules team, has written a PolicyFromFile custom activity which shows how you can externalize the rules outside your workflow. Read about it here -Kavita

Using rules for page flow is a common question on our internal discussion aliases and in the WF forums. We're happy to share that Kushal Shah, a tester on the Rules team, has just posted a sample on the community site which uses rules (standalone, that...

Stephen Kaufman is a Principal Consultant in MCS (Microsoft Consulting Services) who works with customers on BizTalk, WF and Rules A common question we get is how the WF Rules Engine relates to the BizTalk Business Rules Engine. With input from the...

You can now download the final version of the .Net Framework 3.0 from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=10CC340B-F857-4A14-83F5-25634C3BF043&displaylang=en This includes WCF (Windows Communication Foundation...

Today I posted sample code for a policy cache service that caches rule set (so you can get better performance) and the corresponding custom PolicyActivity that leverages this caching service to get the rule set it has to execute. -Kavita

I posted this on my blog today after we saw a question about this on the WF MSDN forums. In future releases we are looking at providing more analysis capabilities on your rules which should make a lot easier for you to tune your rules. -Kavita

Both Moustafa and I will be at the Business Rules Forum during November in Washington D.C. If you're going and are interested in chatting up about rules and feedback on BRE or WF Rules, we would love to meet up with you. Please contact us through this...

Hello everyone, I wanted to follow up on Kavita's great kickoff with an introduction as well. I'm Moustafa Khalil Ahmed, a Program Manager on the Connected Frameworks Rules Team. I have a blog here that talks mainly about .Net framework 3.0, Windows Workflow...

As a follow up to Don's post on CodeDom, I just posted this on my blog. -Kavita

Thanks, Kavita, for setting up the Connected Framework Rules Team Blog. Several of us have our own blogs, but it is useful to have a central one like this to collate our collective experience. I'm Don McCrady, the dev lead for the Connected Framework...

My name is Kavita Kamani and I am a Program Manager on the Rules team. My focus for the next few months will primarily be on the core rules engine model and enhancements to it, along with parity with BRE. I have my own blog where I started posting...

The Connected Framework Rules Team is responsible for the following Rules technologies: Rules technology in Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) (WF ships as part of .Net Framework 3.0) Rules technology that ships in BizTalk Server, namely Business...