How to implement a rule engine?

Question

I have a db table that stores the following:

RuleID  objectProperty ComparisonOperator  TargetValue
1       age            \'greater_than\'             15
2          


        

Answer 1

How about using the workflow rules engine?

You can execute Windows Workflow Rules without Workflow see Guy Burstein's Blog: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/bursteg/archive/2006/10/11/RuleExecutionWithoutWorkflow.aspx

and to programatically create your rules, see Stephen Kaufman's WebLog

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/skaufman/archive/2006/05/15/programmatically-create-windows-workflow-rules.aspx