A few months ago I started with a new project at work. The goal is to create a design tool for warehouses and the application will be running on the Windows platform. After the design choice landed on WPF I started to think about the project’s file structure. This is my first Windows application that is not build on Windows Forms but on WPF. The design tool is not that big of an application, so I think my tips in this article will suit small to medium sized applications well. First of all, how should the application be organized on the highest level? Does the application consist of only one executable file, or one executable file and several assemblies (e.g. DLL files)? For instance, the design tool has an output functionality that formats the warehouse data to a specific protocol and then uploads it to an embedded computer. The output functionality could well be located in a separate project (i.e. an assembly) that is referenced in the main application’s project. How should the m
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