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In some views, a related entity may be relevant, but I don't want to include all of it's components, as they have no particular relevance in other views.

Removing components from a view works fine, but when you save the view, close and re-open it, all of the components are added back to it, appearing in random locations in the diagram.

Thank you for posting. We will fix the "adding components back into diagrams" issue.
We will post here when the corresponding build of Entity Developer is available for download.

We've fixed the problem with incorrect model diagram saving after deleting a complex type from a diagram.

This fix is available in the latest 4.2.110 build of Entity Developer. The new build can be downloaded from http://www.devart.com/entitydeveloper/download.html (the trial version) or from Registered Users' Area (for users with active subscription only).

For more information, please refer to http://www.devart.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=23135

This problem just surfaced again, in a slightly different way.

When I add a component property to an entity on one diagram, the same component (the actual complex type) shows up again on other diagrams where it was not visible.

Thank you for your report.
Unfortunately, we cannot reproduce the issue in our environment at the moment.

I can't reproduce this either - must have been a very edgy case. It hasn't happened again - but I'll try to track it if it does...

Oh, it just happened, and it is reproducible - simply drag an existing entity (that references some components) onto a second diagram, it adds all of that entity's components into the second diagram.

This behavior is by design.
When adding an entity with a property of a complex type or enum type to a diagram, we always create the corresponding complex type or enum on the diagram. It makes the model more evident and helps to understand the connections between different model objects.