Inventory Management System

A full-stack inventory management application built with C# and .NET, featuring a Blazor WebAssembly frontend, ASP.NET Core Web API, Entity Framework Core, and SQL Server.

The project is designed to manage products and categories through a clean web-based interface while following a layered architecture.

🚧 Status: Currently in development

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📸 Overview

The Inventory Management System provides a web interface for managing products, categories, and inventory information.

The application consists of:

• A Blazor WebAssembly frontend
• An ASP.NET Core Web API
• An Application layer containing business logic
• A Domain layer containing entities
• An Infrastructure layer handling database access
• A Shared layer containing DTOs
• A SQL Server database using Entity Framework Core

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✨ Features

Categories

• View all categories
• Create categories
• Edit categories
• Delete categories
• Confirmation dialog before deletion
• Success and error notifications
• Category descriptions

Products

• Product management
• SKU and barcode support
• Cost and selling prices
• Stock quantity tracking
• Minimum and maximum stock levels
• Product descriptions
• Category assignment
• CRUD operations

API

• RESTful API
• GET, POST, PUT and DELETE endpoints
• Scalar API documentation
• Entity Framework Core database integration
• Dependency Injection
• Separation of application and infrastructure logic

User Interface

• Blazor WebAssembly
• MudBlazor components
• Responsive tables
• Dialog-based forms
• Snackbar notifications
• Clean and simple interface

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🛠️ Technologies Used

Technology	Purpose
C#	Main programming language
.NET 9	Application framework
Blazor WebAssembly	Frontend
ASP.NET Core Web API	Backend API
Entity Framework Core	ORM / Database access
SQL Server	Database
MudBlazor	UI component library
Scalar	API documentation and testing
AutoMapper	Object mapping
Visual Studio / JetBrains Rider	Development environments

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🏗️ Architecture

The project follows a layered architecture to keep responsibilities separated.

┌───────────────────────────────┐
│       Blazor WebAssembly      │
│          Frontend             │
└───────────────┬───────────────┘
                │
                │ HTTP
                ▼
┌───────────────────────────────┐
│       ASP.NET Core API        │
│         Controllers           │
└───────────────┬───────────────┘
                │
                ▼
┌───────────────────────────────┐
│        Application Layer      │
│      Services / Interfaces    │
└───────────────┬───────────────┘
                │
                ▼
┌───────────────────────────────┐
│       Infrastructure Layer    │
│     Repositories / EF Core    │
└───────────────┬───────────────┘
                │
                ▼
┌───────────────────────────────┐
│          SQL Server           │
│           Database            │
└───────────────────────────────┘