Features and Components

In this section, you can configure the features and components installed with your application.

Features

Features are parts of your application that define specific functionality of your application. For instance, the documentation could be a separate feature from the main program files.

On the right is the menu you get when you right-click on the feature tree. There are several things you can do with features. Create New Feature creates a new feature. Add Existing Components allows you to insert existing components into a feature. The same component can be inserted into more than one feature. Also, there can be components with no associated feature. You can also rearrange the order in which features are displayed. Simply select Move Up or Move Down in the menu.

Components

Components are reusable units of an application. A component can be as simple as a single file or as complex as a .NET assembly.

When you right-click the feature tree, you can create a new component to be added to the selected feature by selecting Create New Component from the menu. You can also remove a component from a feature by selecting Remove From Feature.

Note

You can only have up to 800 components per feature.