Code Effects Version 6 Released - AI-Powered Decision Automation for .NET

Code Effects Version 6 Is Here

We're excited to announce the release of Code Effects Version 6 - our biggest update since the platform was introduced.

Version 6 isn't just another feature release. It fundamentally changes how business rules, deterministic decision automation, and AI work together in .NET applications.

Learn more: https://codeeffects.com/decision-automation/new-features-version-6-business-rules-engine

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Highlights

Bring Your Own AI (BYOAI)

Instead of locking you into a specific AI provider, Version 6 lets you integrate any LLM into both rule authoring and rule evaluation. Use:

• OpenAI
• Azure OpenAI
• Claude
• Gemini
• local LLMs
• private enterprise models
• or no AI at all

Your application owns the prompts, infrastructure, models, and execution flow.

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Adaptive Source

Version 6 introduces Adaptive Source, a completely new way to build business rules.

Instead of presenting static field menus, the Rule Editor requests available options from your application while the user is building the rule. Because each request includes the complete rule context, you can dynamically generate menus using:

• business logic
• user permissions
• metadata
• external services
• AI

This makes truly context-aware rule authoring possible.

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AI Prompt Rule Elements

Any string field, method parameter, or method return value can now be marked as a Prompt. The Rule Editor automatically displays a prompt dialog, allowing users to write structured instructions that your own AI implementation can consume.

AI becomes another executable part of deterministic rule evaluation rather than an external workflow.

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Native Visual Studio Rule Debugging

Probably our favorite new feature.

Simply pass a tracing delegate into Evaluate() method and debug business rules directly inside Visual Studio:

• set breakpoints
• step through every condition
• inspect source objects
• view individual expression results
• use the same tracer for production logging

No external debugger.
No custom tooling.
Just Visual Studio.

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Stronger Security

Version 6 includes significant security improvements, including:

• assembly whitelisting during rule evaluation
• modernized client-side architecture
• complete control over external integrations

Everything continues to execute inside your own environment.

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Native Performance

Rules are compiled directly into .NET IL instead of being interpreted at runtime. The result is native execution speed with a fully thread-safe stateless engine capable of evaluating millions of objects with extremely low latency.

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Runs Anywhere .NET Runs

Built on .NET Standard 2.0, Version 6 supports modern and legacy environments including:

• .NET Framework
• .NET
• ASP.NET Core
• Windows
• Linux
• macOS
• Docker
• cloud deployments

With Full Source licensing, you can even compile the platform specifically for your own environments.

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Still the Same Philosophy

Code Effects remains focused on helping organizations move business logic out of application code while giving business users a web-based, sentence-like interface for creating and maintaining decision logic.

Version 6 extends that philosophy into the AI era by combining deterministic business rules with probabilistic AI evaluation - without sacrificing transparency, security, or control.

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Learn More

What's New in Version 6
https://codeeffects.com/decision-automation/new-features-version-6-business-rules-engine

Product Overview
https://codeeffects.com/decision-automation-engine

We'd love your feedback, feature requests, and questions. Thanks to everyone who tested the release candidates and helped shape Version 6!