Wiley .NET Domain-Driven Design with C#: Problem - Design - Solution 978-0-470-14756-6 Manuale Utente

      Introducing the Project: 

The Smar tCA Application          

 The project for this book is based on a real application for a real company. The names of the 
company and the application have been changed for privacy reasons. The fictional company name 
will be Smart Design, and the name of their new application will be called SmartCA. Smart Design 
is a growing architectural, engineering, and interior design firm. One of its many service offerings is 
construction administration, which in its case consists mostly of document management, cost 
control, and project portfolio management.  

  The Problem 

 To manage its construction administration (CA) data and processes, Smart Design has been 
getting by for 10 years on a home - grown Microsoft Access database application, called the 
Construction Administration Database, which lives on its corporate network. The company has 
grown accustomed to this application, both the good parts and the bad. When the application was 
originally written, there were only a few users, the requirements were very simple, they 
already had licenses for Microsoft Office, and they had a very small budget. All of this made 
using Microsoft Access a good technology choice. Figure  1.1  shows the main screen of the 
application.   

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