Orchestra ERP

The stock market was getting challenging for technical analysts so I lost motivation in developing the Euclid project (mentioned in the previous post.) Perhaps I will revisit it once the markets and trading get interesting again.

I have instead resumed developing my WPF ERP framework. I am currently using / planning to use the following free frameworks / tools available for my client layer:

• Rich Client Presentation Layer: Composite Application Guidance or Prism – http://www.codeplex.com/CompositeWPF (When I create a web presentation layer, I will most probably be using ASP.NET MVC http://www.asp.net/mvc/, ASP.NET Ajax http://www.asp.net/ajax/ and JQuery http://jquery.com/)
• Data Layer / ORM:  NHibernate – https://www.hibernate.org/343.html and ActiveRecord – http://www.castleproject.org/activerecord/index.html (or I might sell out and go for Entity Framework 4, but I’ll need to wait for .Net 4.0 for this)
• Reporting: Crystal Reports for Visual Studio (well, it comes free with the IDE and there’s no popular open source products are out there.)
• IOC: Unity – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd140117.aspx
• Logging, Configuration, etc: Enterprise Library – http://www.codeplex.com/entlib
• Object Mapping: Automapper – http://www.codeplex.com/AutoMapper
• Unit Testing: NUnit – http://www.nunit.org/index.php
• Mocking: RhinoMocks – http://www.nunit.org/index.php
• Code Quality: FXCop – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb429476(VS.80).aspx and StyleCop – http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/sourceanalysis
• Automated / Continuous Build: NAnt – http://nant.sourceforge.net/ and CruiseControl.Net – http://confluence.public.thoughtworks.org/display/CCNET/Welcome+to+CruiseControl.NET
• Work Management: Trac - http://trac.edgewall.org/

This WPF ERP framework will start off as two-tier, consisting only of a client and a remote database, most probably SQL Express Edition.

The design, however, should be scaleable enough so that I can move the business layer to a server and put a service layer on top of it. When this happens, I will be using WCF, naturally.

UPDATE (Dec. 12, 2009)

I have decided to make the following changes:

• Data Layer / ORM: Fluent NHibernate – http://fluentnhibernate.org/
• IOC: Castle Windsor – http://www.castleproject.org/container/index.html