Customer Management Application

This project contains a sample ASP.NET Core app. This app is an example of the article I produced for the Telerik Blog (telerik.com/blogs).

Welcome to the CustomerManagement application! This ASP.NET Core application, built using .NET 7, provides a simple customer management system. It utilizes various NuGet packages like Dapper, Restsharp, Newtonsoft.JSON, XUnit, and Humanizer to enhance its functionality. 😎

Getting Started 🚀:

To get started with CustomerManagement, follow the steps below:

Prerequisites 📋:

1. .NET 7 SDK

Installation 📦:

1. Clone the repository to your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/zangassis/customer-management.git

2. Change into the project directory:

cd CustomerManagement

Configuration 🔧:

1. Ensure you have a MySQL Server database available for this application.
2. Configure the database connection string in appsettings.json:

{
  "ConnectionStrings": {
    "DefaultConnection": "YOUR_CONNECTION_STRING_HERE"
  }
}

Usage 🛠:

To run the CustomerManagement application, use the following command:

dotnet run

Testing 🧪:

CustomerManagement uses XUnit for unit testing. To run the tests, execute:

dotnet test

Features 📃:

• Customer Management: Add, retrieve, update, and delete customer information.
• API Integration: Communicate with external RESTful APIs using Restsharp.
• Data Access: Utilize Dapper to interact with the database efficiently.
• JSON Handling: Leverage Newtonsoft.JSON for handling JSON data serialization and deserialization.
• Unit Testing: Comprehensive unit tests using XUnit to ensure code correctness and stability.
• Humanizer: Enhance user experience with Humanizer's human-friendly strings.

Contributing 🤝:

We welcome contributions to improve the CustomerManagement application. Feel free to create issues, open pull requests, or provide feedback. 🤝

License ⚖:

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Thank you for choosing CustomerManagement! If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to reach out. Happy coding! 👨‍💻💖