Windows Desktop Application of Multiple Countdown

Last things first

This application is close to be done. I don't think I'll make too much further development for this application after the open issues are closed.

I will then start working on a web application that uses the same database for the second platform support of the countdown application. Well, if I live that long, after the web app, I may start working on an Android app too. Who knows.

What is this app about?

I have tried several countdown applications (web and desktop) but I was never satisfied with what they were offering. I wanted something simple, something that only counts down. Afterwards I started wanting to have this count down data to be kept online so I could access it whenever I want (not only from the computer I started the countdown)

I had a very simple countdown application for myself but then I wanted to be able to have more than 1 countdown at once. That's how I started on this project.

After a while, I thought that maybe someone else could want to have this kind of application, so I put it here on GitHub (I was using a private svn repository before)

Architecture

I believe (hope) that the code is self-explanatory. There are only 3 projects in the solution and 1 of them is the database.

Business project handles mostly the database operations and data manipulation (I didn't think that a new project for data layer was necessary, but maybe I'll do it some time)

WinUI project, well, has all the Windows UI things.

Application Interface

Interface is quite simple actually. There is a main window that shows the current countdowns and allows to add new countdowns. This main window has a panel; and this panel contains a list of countdown user controls.

Actual counting down is done by the user control.

Synchronization

I worked quite a bit on this part of the application. I knew that synchronization would be difficult to handle (I adore those huge cloud offering companies that do an awesome job at this). And it was difficult. I think that it works without any bugs now.

I'm not sure if I can ping the app from the server (from the db itself actually) when there's a change in the database; therefore, the sync is currently being initiated every 3 minutes... or 5. I forgot the value I wrote there.

//TODO: I forgot to put that sync interval into the config. I should do that.

Also there's a menu item that triggers sync when clicked. Pretty simple :)

Well that's about it. Have fun.