Mindfire has deep experience developing Microsoft Windows-based desktop applications. We describe some of these Windows desktop-application project experiences below, and will be glad to share our expertise in detail with you.
Ticketing Information System
Software Application Development Company
Industry:
Construction Industry
Technologies:
VS 2005 (VB.net) & SQL Server 2000 & Crystal Report.
This software system is a business solution for companies which operate in the construction industry.It manages Bids, Tickets, Invoices, Receipts and Customers information. The System allows user to enter quick sales information's into the system. From the set of information entered the system generates a number of useful reports with various data.Reports can be exported to Excel or PDF format.Mindfire was involved in bug fixing, maintenance and addition of additional features into the system.
Product Locator
Software Development Company
Industry:
Product Marketing
Technologies:
VB 6.0 & MS Access
This project involved the development of a windows desktop application that would allow users to locate various products and their information's based on the different search criteria's. The WISE installer software was used to build the installation CD of this product that could be used to distribute the Final product.
Police Patrolling software
Industry:
Technologies:
VB 6.0, Crystal Report 8.5, Embedded Crystal Report Designer 8.5, MS ACCESS
Police Patrolling software with dynamic record keeping system designed exclusively for law enforcement operations. The system empowers police departments to easily track medical expenses, equipment cost, and maintenance and upkeep expenses throughout the year and provides them with reports ready for submission at budget time. The application provides a unique feature of dynamic report generation where user can create his own custom reports.
Home Inspection Software
Industry:
Technologies:
VB 6.0, Segate Crystal Report 8.5, MS ACCESS, Wise Installer For Windows
This is one of the finest home inspector software in the market helping the inspector produce effective and thorough reports for customers. It has features that minimize the time spent by inspectors in gathering facts, writing reports and emailing them to the customers in pdf and word formats.
GoogleBase Data Upload
Service provider for auto dealers
Industry:
Automotive Industry
Technologies:
C#.Net, SQL Server 2005, * The Google Base data API C# Client Library (An object oriented abstraction for accessing the Google Base data API.)
Google Base is a place where one can submit their website's content for Google to host and to make their product searchable online. One can describe and post any item with descriptive attributes and specific information about their prouduct. The more attributes are associated with the items, the more different ways users can find them. These applications can upload new data, update or delete existing items, and execute specialized queries to find matches for complex attribute criteria. With the Google Base data API, one can create specialized applications that handle such actions(upload , update or delete) programmatically.
Mindfire was engaged is designing and developing the C#.net application for the client that is used to interact with Google Base and upload data to be
searchable on google. The application runs through a scheduler and picks up data from the SQL Server 2005 and interacts with the google base API to insert / update and delete the data.
Invoice File Processor
Oil Supplier Company
Industry:
Oil & Refinery
Technologies:
VB.Net, SQL Server 2005
The requirement was to develop a Windows Service application to monitor a folder for specific files, parse them and import the data into database with sending alert e-mails.
The application would monitor a folder at a specified location and processed the file as soon as it found any based on the file type. There are two types of file generated and placed in the monitor folder.As soon as a new file is found in the monitor folder, the windows service will open the file and check for it's type. Based on the type of the file the specific method is invoked. It would add all the files to the collection for processing. And then pick each file and parse the file to pull the raw data into another Collection for validation checking. When the parsed action is over it will collect the data from the collection and push into the database.
Alert E-Mail's are being fired if there is any validation fail or any processing error that occurred during processing of data. After the data import action is finished successfully, the service would fire the alert email to specific user's informing them to view the invoices through their login on the companies website. For making data on the website more secure, some of the data elements have been encrypted before importing into database.
POS Addin
Software Service Provider
Industry:
Retail Management
Technologies:
VB.Net, SQL Server2005, Microsoft Retail Management System (MS RMS 2.0) & Crystal Report 9.0
The primary aim of the project is to serve as an Add-in to the MS RMS 2.0. This addin was responsible for handling the Transactions at the Point
of Sale counters (POS).
The addin generated customized reports based on the daily sales. The addin was launched from a button in POS systems. It caputured all the data during the
transactions at POS counters and generated reports like Item Status report, Profit Margin report. It also generated Gift Certificates. Reports were generated on the basis of the transaction number selected. The addin was also reponsible updating calculated data to the MS RMS Database.
Player - Tournament Management System
Software Service - Product provider for Golf Clubs
Industry:
Sports & Leisure
Technologies:
VB.Net 2.0, Access, SQL Server 2000, HTML, JavaScript
The requirement was to port the existing web application that displays the Golf Starting tees/times, scores in progress, scores results on TV,plasma screens and Projection Systems into a desktop windows application.
All the existing functionalities of the web application were analyzed and were ported onto the desktop version.The web browser control was used to have the HTML pages populated up during the runtime. Even the HTML pages were generated at runtime based on the settings that were saved.
Player & Tournament related information were displayed in columnar format with options to include ticker messages, background graphics, two graphics panel
and descriptor fields. User can choose from three displays type that is available. The graphic components enable any graphic advertisement, course or company logos, photos or any other type of graphic image(s) to be displayed.
All background images placed in a designated folder will be displayed with user-defined timer settings for how long each is being displayed before changing to the next.
It was almost like a small CMS system that allows the end user to edit settings for various display modes. Exclusive java script programming was also done to achieve some functionality that were there in the web version.
Data Remediation
Aviva (UK)
Industry:
Finance
Technologies:
VS.NET 3.5, VB.NET 2008, SQL Server 2005
Data remediation is a windows application for inputting data related to various forms for investment and pension schemes of Aviva. This application will be mainly used by the back office people for inputting data from the scanned forms.
Various Features:
Tabbed forms for various investment and pension products of Aviva.
Ability to show tabs related to various events for different products.
The look and feel of the application closely resembles the actual scanned form.
Data validation alerts as per the requirement.
Ease of use for inputting data.
Ability generate reports on various criteria.
