Another Question on how to Use CSLA

vicky_iit posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2006

i am using CSLA.Net as my business framework for my app. now The there are 3 projects(all class libraries) as of now:

1. CSLA Framework

2. Business Layer

3. BusinessService Interface

#2 references #1 and # 3 references # 2. But i cant compile this as I need to reference both 1 and 2 in 3 since 2 depends on 1. Though things will compile but is this the right thing to do? means letting yr service interface know about the BL framework too?

Also, one more thing: if i use a web service UI instead of service interface, i dont need to reference the framework as Web compilation model works different than class libraries and it copies and references #1 automatically.

And there is a post which says this is a bug in C# compiler:
http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/56/284237.aspx

RockfordLhotka replied on Wednesday, July 26, 2006

I don't see the problem. If your 3 was any type of UI, you'd just have it reference 1 and 2. Of course 2 references 1 as well.

The only reason 3 needs to reference 1 is because the JIT compiler needs you to do that in order to successfully load types from 2. It is the way the .NET type loader and JIT compiler work.