Documentation for Developers

How to get started

• Setup of Development environment

Software Architecture and Principles

• Coding Standard and Guidelines
• Development with Code Generation
• Build System for OpenPetra
• Overview openPETRA architecture (taken from the old Petra wiki. should be merged into the other articles)
• n-tier architecture
• Database access architecture
• GUI development
• Printing
• Releases and Patching
• HowTo develop a new screen
• Report Designer
• HowTo develop a new report
• Useful hints regarding coding in CSharp/.net
• Building and maintaining customized versions of OpenPetra
• Working with NUnit tests

References and Code and DB 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

Specifications&Requirements

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

Projects

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

Used Tools

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