MyLibrary

A WPF application, simulating a book library, incorporating OOP principles and binary serialization.

The application consists of 3 projects:

• MyLibrary - UI gateway
• MyLibrary.BL - Business Logic Layer
• MyLibrary.DAL - Data Access Layer

Features/Technologies/Tools:

• WPF
• Object Oriented Programming
• 3 Layers Architecture
• Interfaces & Generics
• Custom Observable Collections
• Custom 'Window' objects
• Data Grids & Filtering
• Toolbars
• User & Permissions
• Binary Serialization
• Isolated Storage

Login Instructions

• On first launch, user name & password will be auto filled with admin/admin.
• On the top-right corner you will see a "Generate Demo Data" button - click it to load demo data. The button apears only as long as there's no data in storage. Demo data includes 20 users, with the following credentials:
• User name: "user{01-20}"
• Password: "pass{01-20}"

Business Logic Models

Entities - Overview

Entities - Details

Entity Manager

UI Models

Entities Window

Entity Window

Isolated Storage

Root directory format

%LOCALAPPDATA%\IsolatedStorage{xxxxxxxx}.ldz{xxxxxxxx}.mrf\Url.{GUID}\AssemFiles

Folders (i.e 'tables')

• Employees
• LibraryItems
• Publishers
• Users

Operations

• Add Item

  

• Add Copies & Borrow

  

• ISBN Filtering

  

• Advanced Search

  

• Add Employee

  

• Add User

  

• Permissions

  • Manager

    

  • Supervisor - Same as Manager, but cannot manipulate employees and users.

    

  • Worker - Same as Supervisor, but cannot manipulate publishers and books.