BackgroundBuilder

📝 Project description

🖥️ An MVVM WPF application (.NET 8) providing an Excel-like editor for the contatos table in PostgreSQL

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📑 Prerequisites

• 
• database with table:

  CREATE TABLE public.contatos (
      ramal text PRIMARY KEY NOT NULL,
      nome text NOT NULL,
      email text,
      area text,
      aniversario date,
      "isComando" boolean NOT NULL
  );

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🔧 Setup

1. ✏️ Edit appsettings.json, set your ConnectionStrings:ContatosDb.

2. 🖥️ In a terminal:

   dotnet restore
   dotnet build
   dotnet run --project BackgroundBuilder.csproj
   

3. 🪟 The main window will appear; on load it fetches and displays all contatos.

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🏗️ Architecture

• 🏛️ MVVM with ObservableObject, RelayCommand
• 🧩 DI via Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting
• 💾 Repositories (PostgresContatoRepository) handle all DB I/O with Dapper
• 🔌 Services (DatabaseService) manage the Npgsql connection
• 🧠 ViewModels free of data-access logic: only orchestration

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🚀 Releases

📆 21/05/2025: 🆕 Background & Export Features

• 🎨 Select Background…
  Opens a file picker—choose any image (PNG, JPG, BMP). That image becomes your canvas.

• 🖼️ Create Image…
  Saves the current DataGrid overlaid on the background as a single PNG.
  Uses WPF’s RenderTargetBitmap and PngBitmapEncoder under the hood.

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