Uconn Marching Band Information Management SystemStatus Report

Harlan BroughtonStephen LinkMarch 2, 2010

Project Overview

• What is the project about?Learning new technologies to create a usable IMS

• Our goal:o To develop a fully-realized IMS

for the UCMB that they may use daily to replace their current system

Recap

• The IMS is divided into six sectionso Registration, Logino Data Access, Notificationo Members-Only, Pep-band Scheduler

• Also includes: o Even registrationo Administrator media sharing

Current Status

• Progress since the previous milestone:o Completed?

• No major breakthroughs nor setbackso What issues have been resolved?

• No real issues after installing proper toolso Hosting

• Previously on gregn24.dyndns.org

• On track?o Mostly

Issues and Resolutions

• Access to databaseo In progress. o The .bak file yields an error on any

access attempto Problem is with the formatting of the table and what the

management tool expects

Issues and Resolutions (2)

• When trying to access Silverlight code, the .xap file only showed hex values in Visual Studio.

• .xap is the Silverlight application package

• Overlooked a specific Silverlight Developer Tools installation

Database and hosting (the part where everything starts to actually work)• March 12

Media and interactivity• March 26

Security/encryption• April 9

Filemaker Integration• April 28

Timeline

Looking Ahead

• For Milestone 4 (March 31):

• What are the expected deliverables?o Working site featuring media

management

• Known risks and issueso None for Milestone 4

• What are the immediate next steps?o Finalize hosting, fix problem with

database integration

Technology and Resources

Project

Visual Studio

Windows Communicati

on Foundation

SQL Server

Silverlight, C#, XML

Visual Studio, WCF• Windows Communication

Foundation:• Links SQL and Silverlight via

WCFServices page

Silverlight, C#, XML

• C# the primary element, with Silverlight being the frontend and XML greasing behind the scenes

• Silverlight tucked into existing designs:

SQL Server

• IMS database backup in a .bak

• Using MS SQL Server Management Studio for convenient access

Questions?