Carrier Companion News

We have worked out the design of Carrier Companion and want to share it with you. Remember the new release is blazing fast with the help of LINQ and Windows Presentation Foundation.

Here is the default look of the Elite Version:
 
The left panel is the File Options and Forums, and the right panel is the News feed.

After you click new, the page opens to a default layout (this will be changed to weather/route stats/customer stats). We have included a new component. The file statistics. This component will allow you to view the recent and upcoming changes to your route, as well as keeps tallies of your file’s entries:

The sub reports section is a lot different. We have included a search feature. This will do nicely in the customer lists. In the customer’s instance, you can use the search box to search by first name, last name, or address! Here is an example of the Publishers:
 
And with the filtered results:
 
The search is NOT case sensitive, this way you don’t have to type exactly what the name is, you can also type in part of the name, like so:

All the sub reports will have this feature. Just incase, you know!

Ok, that is all for today! The release is near!

Thanks to Xceed, we are able to implement date input in WPF. This input looks much like the date time picker in the initial release of Carrier Companion. So, instead of inputting the the date only to find out that the format is wrong, you can enter the date as you would before. This will make things allot smoother when entering data.

Microsoft has announced that it will be implementing Line Of Business (LOB) components into a future release of the .NET framework, but until then, we will be using some of the components of Xceed to do the dirty work for us.