Visual Studio: High Level Design?

[Frink]

Hallo,

I'm an experienced (old-school) programmer, trying to get to grips with Visual Studio 8 (or 10)
I want to write a VB program which comprises 3 elements; a Service to enter data into a Database, which can then be viewed in a Windows forms App.

Ideally, could I have one App with a local database, which includes the 'service' part in a separate thread which continues to run when the app is minimised to the task bar?

Or do I have to put these three components in 1 project, or three projects in a solution?

What are the relative merits from a VS point of view?

Any help would be much appreciated,

- Frink

 

[kss444]

It depends on what you want to do.

You can have 3 individual projects each with there own solution file.

Or you can have one solution file with all 3 projects. You just go file -> add project.

This way when you open the solution file all the projects are opened as well. Also this helps in debugging process as well.

Ordinary Programmer