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.