Tool or style help to manage coding
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Hi, my office hire a vendor to develop MIS system for internal use. The system is develop and configured with Microsoft SharePoint and their code is written in C#.Net language. Everything is running fine but one thing that really concern me is the implication of wrong setting or functionality when we we ask them to update the new feature or fix any issue, the target feature/issue is developed or fixed. But their code is impact to the other module of the system that cause something wrong. I have discussed with them and found that they are modify some share function or code which work great for target request module but impact the function of other module which later on we found. My question from here is: do anyone in here know any style or tool to help them to manage their code more efficiency so making the progress of updating some feature won't impact to the functionality of other feature. Thank in advance! Best regards, Kanel
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Hi, my office hire a vendor to develop MIS system for internal use. The system is develop and configured with Microsoft SharePoint and their code is written in C#.Net language. Everything is running fine but one thing that really concern me is the implication of wrong setting or functionality when we we ask them to update the new feature or fix any issue, the target feature/issue is developed or fixed. But their code is impact to the other module of the system that cause something wrong. I have discussed with them and found that they are modify some share function or code which work great for target request module but impact the function of other module which later on we found. My question from here is: do anyone in here know any style or tool to help them to manage their code more efficiency so making the progress of updating some feature won't impact to the functionality of other feature. Thank in advance! Best regards, Kanel
All this is kind of vague: what's a specific example you have observed ? Are you competent enough in C# and .NET architecture to understand the code base ? To judge how well it's put together ? Is it your job to deal with the code ? The possible structural issue here ... your dependency on a 3rd. party's code which you can't maintain/fix yourself (evidently) ... well, that may be something you can't modify. And, the idea of giving the 3rd. party some magic tool that will change everything ... seems like a fantasy. On a business level, do you have any form of leverage with the 3rd. party ? Are they willing, able, to change ? The best leverage, of course, is financial; can you take your business elsewhere; are there funds they have not been paid, yet, etc. You'd really have to describe the full context of the business relationship to say much more.
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
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All this is kind of vague: what's a specific example you have observed ? Are you competent enough in C# and .NET architecture to understand the code base ? To judge how well it's put together ? Is it your job to deal with the code ? The possible structural issue here ... your dependency on a 3rd. party's code which you can't maintain/fix yourself (evidently) ... well, that may be something you can't modify. And, the idea of giving the 3rd. party some magic tool that will change everything ... seems like a fantasy. On a business level, do you have any form of leverage with the 3rd. party ? Are they willing, able, to change ? The best leverage, of course, is financial; can you take your business elsewhere; are there funds they have not been paid, yet, etc. You'd really have to describe the full context of the business relationship to say much more.
«Differences between Big-Endians, who broke eggs at the larger end, and Little-Endians gave rise to six rebellions: one Emperor lost his life, another his crown. The Lilliputian religion says an egg should be broken on the convenient end, which is now interpreted by the Lilliputians as the smaller end. Big-Endians gained favor in Blefuscu.» J. Swift, 'Gulliver's Travels,' 1726CE
What i have found in here is when the vendor change/update one module to meet our requirement, there is an impact to the functionality of the other module in our MIS system. As talk with them, I found that the problem because they use the share code module that is why they change their code to fit with one module it is impact to the code in another module. It is hard for me to raise to management for the support contract to fix an issue that is not produce during first system development but it is an issue of produced by another support task. I think if there is any method or tool that help them to manage their code efficiency so there is no impact from one module to another module when there is any change made in the code.
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What i have found in here is when the vendor change/update one module to meet our requirement, there is an impact to the functionality of the other module in our MIS system. As talk with them, I found that the problem because they use the share code module that is why they change their code to fit with one module it is impact to the code in another module. It is hard for me to raise to management for the support contract to fix an issue that is not produce during first system development but it is an issue of produced by another support task. I think if there is any method or tool that help them to manage their code efficiency so there is no impact from one module to another module when there is any change made in the code.
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I don't think there is any such thing as a tool to fix bad design/programming. You need to get your management involved in this, it is a business issue not a technical one.
Thank you.
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Hi, my office hire a vendor to develop MIS system for internal use. The system is develop and configured with Microsoft SharePoint and their code is written in C#.Net language. Everything is running fine but one thing that really concern me is the implication of wrong setting or functionality when we we ask them to update the new feature or fix any issue, the target feature/issue is developed or fixed. But their code is impact to the other module of the system that cause something wrong. I have discussed with them and found that they are modify some share function or code which work great for target request module but impact the function of other module which later on we found. My question from here is: do anyone in here know any style or tool to help them to manage their code more efficiency so making the progress of updating some feature won't impact to the functionality of other feature. Thank in advance! Best regards, Kanel
As Richard suggested you are suffering from bad design or probably undisciplined coding. There are various tools built into Visual Studio to help find dependencies, these have obviously not been used. There are also various practices and strategies to avoid the situation you find yourself in. It is good and normal practice to create shared methods, what you are missing is the skill and discipline to support the application. You have a crappy vendor!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Hi, my office hire a vendor to develop MIS system for internal use. The system is develop and configured with Microsoft SharePoint and their code is written in C#.Net language. Everything is running fine but one thing that really concern me is the implication of wrong setting or functionality when we we ask them to update the new feature or fix any issue, the target feature/issue is developed or fixed. But their code is impact to the other module of the system that cause something wrong. I have discussed with them and found that they are modify some share function or code which work great for target request module but impact the function of other module which later on we found. My question from here is: do anyone in here know any style or tool to help them to manage their code more efficiency so making the progress of updating some feature won't impact to the functionality of other feature. Thank in advance! Best regards, Kanel
Don't know if your vendor is better or worse than average ("bug" wise); however, most "professionals" use "version control software" (VCS) that allows for maintaining a "history" of software changes so that one can always (or most of the time) "fall back" to a previous version of the "app" that worked. "$ cost" is not a factor since there are open-source VCS: e.g. GIT, SVN.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then". ― Blaise Pascal
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Hi, my office hire a vendor to develop MIS system for internal use. The system is develop and configured with Microsoft SharePoint and their code is written in C#.Net language. Everything is running fine but one thing that really concern me is the implication of wrong setting or functionality when we we ask them to update the new feature or fix any issue, the target feature/issue is developed or fixed. But their code is impact to the other module of the system that cause something wrong. I have discussed with them and found that they are modify some share function or code which work great for target request module but impact the function of other module which later on we found. My question from here is: do anyone in here know any style or tool to help them to manage their code more efficiency so making the progress of updating some feature won't impact to the functionality of other feature. Thank in advance! Best regards, Kanel
Possibly a 3-rd party vendor like telerik. Use of the XAML Dictionary to group up the styles. Also, on the WPF Themes - Home[^] on CodePlex, there are additional toolkits that might help.
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