sembleWare™ Visual Welder™ is an add-in for Microsoft™
Visual Studio .NET™, which enables you to develop systems within the Visual Welder™
architecture, in rapid time.
When you create a Visual Welder™ project, you will be working with two projects - one being a (web) presentation layer; the other an application layer, containing all the business logic of the system. The parts and forms that you create in your project are implemented as classes and aspx pages, within the application and web layers respectively.
In order to ensure centralization and consistency of all business rules, it is strongly recommended to keep all business logic in the application layer, and restrict web layer code to only that which is necessary for presentation issues. Conversely, the application layer should not have any code that deals with presentation issues, since the same business objects may be used with any number of different kinds of presentation layers.
Instead of viewing your project through the standard Visual Studio .NET™ Solution Explorer, which will display your project in this split-level view, it is recommended that you work with the Visual Welder™ Part Hierarchy, which presents your project in a consolidated conceptual view.
In this section, we will introduce the various tools within the sembleWare™ Visual Welder™ Add-In, and detail how they are used:
For a quick, practical demonstration of how Visual Welder™ works, see the Quick Start tutorial.