Contacts Application in WPF
11 January 2020
Category: Learning Projects
Hi everyone,
I have just finished a mini learning project to practice WPF, SQL and how they work together. It’s a heavily updated project from the course to deepen my WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) skills. Namely, I have improved the UI and added a button to connect to Oracle XE DB. I chose Oracle because it is an production-ready DB and SQLite, which is used in the course, is laughably easy to implement but has not much use for real app (SQLite is not a good a choice for environments with high data protection requirements).
The project is error-prone and vulnerable to many sorts of attacks, I’m aware of that, but making a secure application wasn’t the objective of this exercise. It only needed to serve these goals:
- Practice XAML and StaticStyles.
- Connect Oracle DB from a C# app.
- Get familiar with Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.
- Practice OOP to allow using any DB through interfaces.
- Cement the practices I learned in the WPF Mastery course which I’m working on right now.
Cheers!
Petr
