Mindfire has deep experience developing .NET WinForms desktop and enterprise database applications using VC#.NET and VB.NET. We describe some of these .NET WinForms project experiences below, and will be glad to share our expertise in detail with you.
Sales Automation plug-in to Sage Act and MS Outlook
CRM and Sales Automation software
Industry:
Technologies:
VB.net, C#.net, Web Services, MS Office COM Add-in, VSTO, DevExpress, MS Outlook & WinWord Interope integration, Sage Act & Winfax SDK integration
The product is a Sales Management Automation software that works upon the huge number of contacts present in any Sage Act/ MS Outlook contact database. The supported platforms are Sage Act 6, Act 2005, Act 2006, Act 2007, Act 2008, Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007. The latest development is VSTO enhancement and Windows Vista compatibility.
The application contains a predefined industry specific or general sales correspondence library of event sequences called Action Plan. Each event template can be customized as per the business need. The events within an Action Plan can be fired in a manual or predefined automatic sequence(for mass processing of events) with integration with printers for letters, MS
outlook for mails and Symantec winfax for faxing. The event sequence fired is saved as calendar and history entries. These events can be tracked at any moment by the sales manager generating custom status reports per contact, per representative. The reporting output can be generated as html, excel, pdf, and also other image formats. Web services and web based dynamic pages enables sales people to remote track contact flow and update contact status in the CRM database.
Product licensing management, sales and support system.
CRM and Sales Automation software company
Industry:
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Technologies:
VB.net, ASP .net, Web Services, MS SQL Server 2005
The web application manages the complete sales and product key tracking of software product and the associated add-ons. This is one complete on line support system supporting software product sales and support team, vendors, customer and product registration. The product maker sales team and vendors can add/edit customers, generate product registration keys with timely expiration and user limits, then generate automated sales e-mail for customers. Each individual application instance and add-on features need to be registered through web services with the licensing website. The web module is the support utility for the software product maker and the vendors to track the registration status and service usage of the product.
Financial Health Check
A Leading Insurance Company
Industry:
Insurance Group
Technologies:
VB.NET, Access
It's a standalone application. This has been developed on the subject of insurance schemes. The application stores customer's details as well as all their different insurances planning such as Life insurance, medical insurance also saving funds in Child saving plan, retirement saving plan etc. In different categories of insurances the data are entered on the basis of whatever existing insurance the customer has and whatever additional insurances the company provides. With this feature the application also generates reports which not only describes a detail about their insurances funds but also shows the covered and uncovered expenses of a customer in pie chart format.
Live Television Show Management
Software Development Company
Industry:
Media
Technologies:
.NET 2.0, ASP.NET, C3.NET, DevExpress 8.1, SQL Server 2005
This application is windows based application and is developed for monitoring the shows airing process on television network. The application has been developed to run for 24 hours a day, 358 days a year on 20 systems simultaneously. It is a multiuser application that can run at a time in several systems in a network having one admin and viewers. The 1st system will be act as the Admin on which the application will be opened for the 1st time and after that other systems will be the viewers. The Admin has all the rights to add/edit/delete show information. The viewer can only view the application and its contents.
Functionalities like tree view with in grids, drag and drop, show item search etc has been introduces in the application for managing shows and its item instantaneously.
At any point of time user can check and bring information from couple of previous (aired) shows and next (to be aired) show to the current (airing) show.
Clock time using finger print device
Web Development Company
Industry:
Healthcare
Technologies:
C#.Net, MySQL
Time Clock with Fingerprint is an application used to record the clock in and clock out time of an employee, by authenticating the finger print through the biometrics finger print reader. First the employees need to enroll their fingerprint through the biometrics finger print device. To record an employee's clock in and clock out time, the employee needs to verify his/her enrolled finger through the Biometrics Finger Printer.
Aviva VB/SQL project
Industry:
Data entry S/w for BPO
Technologies:
.net 3.5, vb2008, Ms Sql 2005
DataRemediation is a windows application used for keying in data of existing investors who have bought varous investment and pension products offered by Norwich Union. The application reads the active directory to login and decide the forms to be displayed based on the role of the logged in user. The application has forms which are exact copies of the scaned filled up forms for various products from which the data entry user keys in data into the application. The application has functionality to compare data entered by two data entry users, flag down and display the discrepencies.
Model Convertor Service
Is a Virtual Reality Software company that provides software products for the engineering industry
Industry:
Industrial Engineering
Technologies:
.NET 2.0, VB.net, SQL 2005, SQL Lite, XML.
This windows service runs on a web server along with the corresponding web application and the main purpose of this service is to load balancing the user request for converting a traditional Virtual Reality model into a Transactional model. When user uploads a Virtual Reality model (a file that contains various CAD info. and some meta data in XML files), it's the responsibility of the service to pick the model on behalf of the web application and process it to prepare a Transactional model that can be shared / accessed centrally among all VR model users .
The conversion process includes extracting various SQLite information from the Virtual Rich model file, pushing them into SQL server and adding XML Meta contents to create a Transactional model file.
Staff List Management
Creates software for the design offices.
Industry:
Architecture & Design
Technologies:
.NET 2.0, VB.net, SQL Express 2005, Dev Express
The staff list module is used to record the names and the login names of staffs of any organization. When user logs in to the computer network, stafflist can read the login name and, from this list, determine the full name and initials which are entered automatically on other application modules documents and is used in the time sheets. This module facilitates tracking all information of a staff, and provides a better management of staff for small to large size organizations. This module can also be used to record the name of the computer each user is currently using, their telephone extension number(s) and their location in the office.
Project Register Module
Creates software for the design offices.
Industry:
Architecture & Design
Technologies:
.NET 2.0, VB.net, SQL Express 2005, Dev Express
The project register module is used to record project details. This module keeps track of various projects being executed inside any organization and provides a better project management system for small to large size organizations. This module helps identifying various project related stuffs like the project status, employees working on the project, time lining, certificates, drawings, checklist and work stages etc.
Leave Management System
Industry:
IT Services
Technologies:
VB.NET 2.0, Crystal Reports, SQL Server 2005
It is an application to keep track of leaves for each and every employee of an organization. It basically contains three major modules: Create Database, Employee/Leave Information, Crystal Reports
CREATE DATABASE
The requirement from the client was that the HRM system should install the database on client machine or on any machine on LAN also. So the coding was done in create db module for creating database structure and table schema dynamically.
EMPLOYEE/LEAVE INFORMATION: This module uses four main tab controls to retrieve information about employee. Information is displayed for all employees in the organization and a list of employee names and IDs are stored.
Any changes made to the respective tabs are not committed to the database until the user clicks the update button.
Application contains the facility to add/update/delete employee information and upload file for users.
The system uses a multilevel leave approval for an employee i.e. having the supervisor and the manager approval for leave before it is deemed fully approved by admin.
A Holiday Calendar facility was also maintained through which only authorized users can add public holidays to the system and leave request (of employee) was affected if leave request spans public holidays.
A dynamic JOB SCHEDULER was created for bonus leave facility (to execute Stored Procedure for Bonus Leave daily) for employee because SQL Server Express does not have the facility of SQL SERVER AGENT, which automatically schedules the jobs.
CRYSTAL REPORTS
Project also contains module for user to see different types of reports.
Report Selector acts as the module from which user filters the type of report he/she wants to see. It contains list boxes for available and selected Employee Ids and Departments through which user filters the reports i.e. Employee Personal Details, Employee Listing by Department, Employee Listing Years of service by Department etc.
Filter works with the type of selected report and gets enabled and disabled accordingly. Finally user clicks on Show Report button and report is displayed in Report Viewer.
Utility dll
Industry:
Technologies:
.net 2008 and Google API
This is a utility dll developed in visual studio .net 2008 that calculates total travelling distance and time between two places (mainly for the US). It uses the GoogleMap utility to accomplish the task. When start and destination places are provided to dll as input, it calculates the travelling distance and time and returns it as output.
Product Master Management
Software Service provider
Industry:
Manufacturing Industry
Technologies:
VS 2008, NET 3.5, VB.net, DevExpress 7.x, Access 2003
The project involved the requirement of developing an application that would help to create new products and as well as help manage existing products. The development of this project involved the complete understanding of the existing business process of the customer. Each product creation involved storing details - starting with the materials that are used for creating the product to storing the details of the manufacturer responsible for creating the product. The labor price involved in building the product was also stored. Each product comprises of several parts and functionality was implemented to store part specific information as well including material and labor information. Finally there was a section to store and handle the shipping details of the place to which the product needs to be shipped. Devexpress reports were developed that would help display data of each stage of the life cycle of the product as per the requirements.
So this single application holds the complete product life cycle detail.
Event Schedule Manager
Software Service Provider
Industry:
Event Management
Technologies:
VS 2008, NET 3.5, VB.net, DevExpress 7.x, SQL 2005
The project involved the requirement of developing an application that would manage events and parties.
This windows application provides a single window to book and schedule party events, along with multiple predefined areas. This functionality was developed to cater to new or existing customers. It allows adding of specialized services that customers would like to take up. There are predefined package plans and food orders that can be taken up by customers and as well as extra stuffs added on to them as Add-On as per ones requirement.
The application also provides a customized interface to manage the party rooms. Multiple rooms can be seamlessly merged into a single room or a single room can also be broken into two rooms as well. The application has a section developed that allows to send reminder emails to exiting customers reminding them of the upcoming event and incase they are interested in doing an advance booking of the facility.
Controller Terminal Development
Software Service Provider
Industry:
Manufacturing
Technologies:
VB.NET (VS 2008)
The project involved migrating/porting an existing VB 6.0 windows application onto .NET frame work 3.5 VB.net Visual Studio 2008. The existing VB 6.0 application was provided by the client to his customers to test various step motor controllers. And this application was capable of running through Windows 98 through Windows XP. So it was critical to maintain the user interface almost similar to the VB 6.0 version.
The challenge was not only to port the application to the .NET frame work as it is but also get it to run and test on various platforms like Windows 2K / XP / Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 2003 & Windows 2008 as well. Each and every existing functionality was tested out thoroughly before the .net version was released.
