Application/System Designer question

Hi, I got beta installed on my laptop recently and was looking on all the new features and did walkthrough on Designers. They are wonderful. I don't know weather I had learn enough to put this as a new thread but I had the following question.

With the application and system designer, I can create and visualize amazing multi-layer application architecture or windows/web application --> Windows/Web Service --> Database.

But How to do same multi-layer architecture of having windows/web application --> Business data type/Objects (dlls, kind of separate projects) --> Database

As I tried to do windows application --> windows application --> database and then wanted to split this solution multi-projects in system designer. The problem I got here was not able to link windows application --> windows application.

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Dharmesh

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Dave J
Hello Dharmesh,

Thanks for your great questions.

To answer your first question, of visualizing Windows/Web Applications --> Business data types/DLLs --> Database, we do not support the representation of DLLs or Class libraries in this version. You can use Generic Components for representing this on your Designer in this version. We have received similar concerns from other Customers as well and we hope to provide a better support in our next version.

If I have understood your second question correctly, you can connect two Windows Applications by a Generic Endpoint. Right-click the Windows Component and Add New --> Generic endpoint on it, connect this endpoint to the second Windows Component. Though no artifacts are generated for this connection, we do model this information.

Hope this helps,
Jyothi
richard_deeming
The link to the prior (in depth) discussion we had on this issue:
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/showpost.aspx postid=16119

Cheers,

Ali
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