Comicster Online Moderation Tool
Here's a screenshot of the program I've been working on for the past few nights. It's a tool I can use (and can eventually give to a few trusted users) to maintain the data in Comicster's online database.
In this screenshot I'm deleting a duplicated character (Iron Man) and telling the program to replace him with the original, more correct entry in any comics in which he appears. Click on the thumbnail for the full-sized pic:
There are some nice things about this program. For starters, it's pretty much the first .NET program I've ever written that makes complete use of Object DataBinding. Everything except the "search for" TextBox is bound to some field of a custom class. It also makes use of the Validating/Validated events and uses ErrorProviders to give error feedback to the user.
Every web service call in this application happens in a background thread, too - the program never "freezes" while it's searching for data.
I'm really proud of this, especially for the amount of time it has taken to create (about 8 hours in total)!


Comments
# Euan
23/09/2006 4:56 PM
The app is looking very nice. Easy layout.
I like it.
# mabster
23/09/2006 5:24 PM
Thanks Eu!
It'll be available to the public before too long. Joe User can't do any real damage with it, since you need a user-key (which you have to get from Comicster) and a certain security level before you can delete anything.