Biztalk - can I create rules / policies programmatically?

Question

It seems that Biztalk only supports creating rules using Composer Business Rules Composer, a development-time toolkit.

Everywhere I see the "software", referring to the BizTalk Business Rules Engine (BRE), I only see that you can execute the rules in .NET, but not create them at all. I found the Microsoft.RuleEngine namespace, but the documentation is terrible, with zero examples, and I can't even tell if you can use it to create a rule or just get the rules (I found one example).

Does anyone know if this API and / or blogs / links / documents exist that may be useful.

Answer 1

I think I have found at least a partial answer. I found a sample using the rules API, but I don’t know yet whether it is possible to directly edit Biztalk policies through the same library.

The Biztalk SDK Samples folder (C: \ Program Files \ Microsoft BizTalk Server 2009 \ SDK \ Samples \ Business Rules) uses the sample in which the Microsoft.RuleEngine rule is created and then saved in an XML file (using the Business Rule Scheme (BRL) )

I suppose I saw other examples showing how to import this XML file into Biztalk, so at least it looks like a two-step process. I will update if I find otherwise, better or worse.

I am puzzled by why I do not see this task being discussed somewhere on the networks. Either Biztalk is very unpopular, or people just don't use BRE.