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Microsoft Business Rule Framework







For almost two years now, I've been intending to write an article about the mysterious 'side effects' flag used in Microsoft Business Rule Engine policies. Microsoft documents this feature (see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa559124.aspx), and describes very briefly how to control it. The mystery that surrounds this flag arises because it is represented by an attribute named 'sideeffects' in Microsoft's BRL (Business Rule Language) although it actually controls a caching mechanism,




This article supplements an earlier article, posted a couple of weeks ago (http://geekswithblogs.net/cyoung/articles/90102.aspx), on issues concerning the use of XPaths to map between the hierarchical data structure of an XML document and the relational view of 'facts' in the Microsoft Business Rules Engine. As I suggested in the introduction to that article, I have repeatedly been asked to troubleshoot MS BRE issues which turn out to be related to the use of XPaths. Earlier this week, I rec


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