What is a Component Exchange?

A Component Exchange is a repository of custom components that you use in your visual applications. The custom components include web components, application templates, UI patterns, and actions and are available to all VB Studio users.

To host the custom components, you can define either a VB Studio project or an external server as the Component Exchange. Any VB Studio project can be used as the Component Exchange, but you should create and set up a separate project to host components. If you have multiple VB Studio instances across multiple tenancies, you can specify an external server as the common Component Exchange for all VB Studio instances.

To use a project or a server as the Component Exchange, specify its details on the Organization page. When set, the VB Studio Designer automatically shows the Component Exchange's hosted components in the Components tab.