Carrier Companion News

Since we are using a the WPF section of the .NET framework, we have ran into snags with the printing. Microsoft has changed the way you design the pages for print. Gives us a few more days, and then we will have the route guide template complete. Then, we ca start with the other templates.

We also hope to incorporate custom templates.

We’ve added a new look to the shopping cart. We hope we can learn a little more PHP and create out own order section and rid the use of 3rd party components. Must be a programmer’s thing. We just like to code everything ourselves .

If you have any problems with retrieving your account info, let us know. And the theme will be deleted and the shopping cart will be placed back to it’s orginial state.

With the template almost complete, we wanted to show you how it works and what it looks like.

 
Here is the route guide section with an instruction selected. When you select an instruction is toggles into an edit mode.

 
Here is the same route guide with a route instruction being inserted. The edit mode of a route guide instruction has spell check enabled.

When you select another part of the route guide, the instruction goes into display mode. This is what it will look like when you print your route guide.

We are almost done with the route guides, at this moment we are inserting the AI which will dynamically update the guide is a customer is removed from the guide.

Example:
1L    12345
2L    12346
1L    12347

If 12346 is removed, the guide will update like so:

1L    12345
3L    12347

Pretty neat, huh?

This is the bread and butter of Carrier Companion. The self updating Route Guides. Since this is one of the most complicated parts of Carrier Companion (other then the Reports section), it may take a couple days as we try to get a layout formed.

We want to implement various templates, for example, Apartment Complexes, foot routes, motor routes, rack drops, etc.., as well as having the ability to create user templates. We hope to have this part done in the next week. Hopefully sooner!

We have updated the shopping cart to include your license codes in the history. At any time you can sign into the shopping cart and click ‘My History’. There you will see all the codes you have purchased.

If you see a order status of ‘Canceled or Refunded’ then the above serial(s) are no longer valid, and will not work with Carrier Companion.

Feel free to try out Carrier Companion 2. No time limit!

Finally, with the new Installer SDK from Microsoft, we may finally be able to place all the setup files needed to install inside one file, thus eliminating the use of zip files and Installshield. We will be pushing back the release of CC2 so we can have a stab at the SDK and get the updates as seamless and painless as possible.

We hope to have the SDK figured out by the end of the day. So, we’ll see.

After testing Carrier Companion. We felt the design needed a little touching up. After some research on WPF, we have found out how to draw our own charts. So, with a little TLC, we may be able to get rid of the 3rd part components altogether. This will allow us to modify the code instead of having to deal with what we we’re sold.

Here’s a look at the new design. It is now tab based instead of component based.

Carrier Companion Carriers

You can now sort the list by the headers at the top. An Arrow will show the direction of the sorting. The screen shot above shows the list sorted by the carriers’ name.

 
Carrier Details

After you click edit (add will add a blank entry then allow you to edit that entry), you will see the above section showing you the details of the carrier. You can enter your SSN here (optional). This is for Schedule C forms you fill with your taxes.

 
Carrier Vehicle

Since Carrier Companion will track vehicle information for the Schedule C forms. We have allow you to not only enter the current vehicle. But, later down the road when you change vehicles, you can enter it here. Sometime in a future release, we will allow you to track gas mileage.

Hopefully this design will be the last major change before the release. We wanted to make this software very versatile, and extremely powerful. As you can see. The power of it is finally coming together!

Have a wonderful day! I’ll keep you posted!

A New version of the beta has been released. We have included the following changes:

• An update feature is now present on the Home Page
• Touched up the design of Home, Complaints, and Customer Pages.
• Touched up the overall design of Carrier Companion

Things yet to do:

• Route Guides Section
• Reports Section
• Carrier’s Section
• Tax Section

Enjoy!

A Friendly reminder:
When you see version 2.0.1.0 or later the beta is finished, and Carrier Companion 2 has been be released.
the versioning of files are as follows: <major version>.<minor version>.<build number>.<revision> the build number of 1 or later represents a release, a build number of 0 represents beta.

The last release of the beta was not installing assemblies to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC). This may be due to the Wise Installer (I’ve read Wise was known for this). We have now corrected the issue. You can download them in the downloads section of this site.

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