We are thinking of architecting a modularized solution for the new version of our product. What we would like to do is implement a "Core" data model that contains the data required to run the core of our product. Clients can then purchase additional modules, and each module has it's own specific data model and should be able to interact with the data model in the core. How would one go about this using devforce? Is it even possible?

 

So in short we have two assemblies:

 

Data.Core >> Contains for example the personnel records.

Data.Attendance >> Contains a bunch of other entities some of which need a reference to personnel.

 

 

I've tried creating a linked file to get the Core Model into the "Attendance" assembly and then trying to set the Entity Manager name to the same in both edmx files, but it still generates constructors in both assemblies for the Entity Manager and the one in core only has the core tables (which you would expect) but the enity manager in the attendance assembly only has the tables for attendance and not the ones that are in the core.

 

Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

Jacob

 

If each module is independent, then you could include the core model in all the assemblies and that would promote both code reuse and good integration between the entities.  If the modules overlap, there will be a little redundancy and you will have to make sure to import the correct entities when passing information between modules.