Documentation for Developers

Projects

Please read about what needs to be done, and how to take charge of a project here:
Summary of Projects

Development

Development Environment

• Setup of Development environment

Programming

• Coding Standard and Guidelines
• Explanation of Directory Structure and Rules
• Useful hints regarding coding in CSharp/.net
• Development with Code Generation

Development Cycle

• Build System for OpenPetra
• Releases and Patching
• Building and maintaining customized versions of OpenPetra
• Working with NUnit tests

Getting Started

• HowTo develop a new screen
• HowTo develop a new report
• Report Designer

Tools Used

This is a list of software that we use; some of it you will already have installed when you did your Setup of Development environment.

• Software tools for Developers
• Memory profiling

Tips and Tricks

• Quicker development/debugging/testing turnaround with customised PetraClient startup

OpenPetra Software Architecture

• Overview openPETRA architecture
  • Taken from the old Petra wiki. Should be merged with the other articles!
• n-tier architecture
• Database access architecture
• openPETRA Architecture Team

Client Side

• GUI development
• Printing

Bug Tracking

See Tracking of Bugs

Database Structure Documentation

• For the current database structure, check http://openpetraorg.sourceforge.net/dbdoc (see also SQL Diagram creation)
  • There is a diagram for the Accounts Payable sub system
  • We need volunteers do design more diagrams! Please also have a look at the old 2.1 diagrams (download 9 png files in a zip file).

• Base and Demo databases

OpenPetra Specifications & Requirements

Please have a look at the specifications and add your own requirements in the appropriate sections (eg. Wishlist):
Specifications and Requirements

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