TruckingCompany
History
- 9-4-2007: cleanup & converted to wiki
- 4-17-2005: version 0.4; tied client to registry settings; created config program & installers.
- 1-2005: version 0.3b; first online posting; some functionality (Branch-system).
- 12-2004: version 0.2; resumed development @ home, with minor tweaking on-site.
- 10-2004: "Truck Calculators" developed @ DDU Express to help me with tabulating.
Purpose
I started writing a program at work to handle a lot of data-processing tasks during my tenure at the now-defunct DDU Express.
License
Open Source License 2.1
Architecture
- Front-End: C#; .NET 1.1 Framework
- Back-End: Firebird 1.5.2 (or newer) Database
- Coding software: SharpDevelop
- Diagramming: DIA
To-Do
- Update security mechanism to allow the database user & password to be changed.
- Figure out the proper way to handle strings in the database.
- Figure out how to properly associate some of the classes (see the class diagram).
Installation (as of 4-17-2005)
- Install Firebird on the server you wish to host the database, or your computer if you have no designated server.
- Make sure .NET Runtime is installed.
- On the server computer, run the "Server Installer."
- On the client computer(s), run the "Client Installer." When the client installer finishes, the "ClientConfig" runs: change the "Server" to the hostname of the computer you ran the "Server Installer."
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