Dr. Sillystringz's Factory

Epicodus Week 11 C# Project 03/19/2021

By Mike Pingel

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This project is not in a complete or portfolio ready state, and should not be considered as representation of professional work.

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Description

An MVC application to manage machines and engineers at Dr. Sillystringz's Factory. Upon being greeted with a splash page, the user can add new machines and engineers as well as view engineers certified to repair specific machines. This project utilizes Entity to communicate with a MySQL database that stores machine and engineer data.

Setup/Installation instructions

From the web

• Go to the GitHub repository for this project: https://github.com/Pingel88/Factory.Solution.git.

• At the top of the repository, click then select "Download ZIP".

  

• Unzip the file, navigate to the 'Factory' folder to view code.

From the terminal

• Clone my repository from GitHub using git clone https://github.com/Pingel88/Factory.Solution.git in your terminal or GitBash
• Navigate to the downloaded folder using cd command
• Execute code . command in your terminal and it will open all source code in your code editor.

⚠️Note⚠️

To run this project locally you will need to have .NET Core and MySQL, follow along with the Epicodus C# setup lessons to verify installation.

View website

A GitHub page is not available for this project. To view functionality in your browser:

• Create a new database using migration through Entity
  • Navigate to the 'Factory' folder in your terminal
  • Enter dotnet ef migrations add Initial
  • Enter dotnet ef database update
• Rename EDITMEappsettings.json in the 'Factory' folder to appsettings.json
• Open appsettings.json in VS Code or Notepad
  • Enter your password in the DefaultConnection string (replacing [PASSWORD]) and save the file
• If not already there, navigate to the 'Factory' folder in your terminal
• Enter dotnet run
• Open your browser and visit http://localhost:5000

Technologies used

• C# 9
• .NET v5.0
• MySQL & MySQL Workbench
• ASP.NET Core MVC
• Entity Framework Core
• Razor
• HTML Helper
• REPL
• Git & GitHub

Known bugs

• When adding a machine certification to an engineer or vice versa, redundant engineer-machine relationships can be created.

Contact Information

License and copyright

© Michael Pingel, 2021