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Time Tracker Enhancements

Wednesday, February 15, 2006 11:49 AM

I got an email the other day from Adam Marciniec letting me know that he has made some enhancements to the Time Tracker application to support Excel export. What a great idea! Then today I get an email from someone else asking about adding Excel support. For anyone else interested, you can read more about the enhancement, and download the code directly from Adam's great blog. It's always nice to see someone enjoying my code!

On another note, I also have updated my code. It would be nice to merge the Excel changes into my code base to keep everything together. I'll try to get to that soon! Changed:

Changing icons based on status (signed in/out)
Punch Out At... feature to set a time that you signed out (nice for those times you forget to punch out on time
Project maintenance -- set a project as active or inactive, add/remove/edit projects
Time entry maintenance -- A DataGridView to manage individual time entries (advanced users probably)
Sorted project names in list
General enhancements for performance/efficiency

I'd still like to add that Excel support, data backup, and possibly reports using that great .NET 2.0 ReportView control (no SQL Server required). The ability to add sub-projects/tasks would be really nice too. I also want to add a data consolidation feature so entries far enough in the past can be shrunk down to daily or monthly entries. At some point you just don't care about what times of the day you signed in and out!

Enjoy! As usual, let me know if there are any questions or problems

Download from here. Sorry, the ClickOnce package isn't updated yet, but I hope to get to that in the next week or so.

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# re: Time Tracker Enhancements

This is a big help!!! Where you able to update the application with the ability to create reports?

Thanks... 4/26/2006 11:41 AM | Ed Holt

# re: Time Tracker Enhancements

I am a big fan of the original application. I just downloaded the latest and greatest, but I'm getting the following error when trying to compile:

Error 1 Invalid Resx file. Could not load type TimeTracker.TimeTrackerDataSet, TimeTracker, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null which is used in the .RESX file. Ensure that the necessary references have been added to your project. Line 265, position 5. C:\Documents and Settings\dc\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects\TimeTracker2\TimeTracker\ProjectsForm.resx 265 5 TimeTracker-source

Any ideas?

Thanks. 6/1/2006 5:44 AM | Dragos

# re: Time Tracker Enhancements

Hmm... this bit me at one point as well. Try deleting the ProjectsForm.resx file and recompile. I think that it regenerates it automatically. I found a way around the issue but I didn't really figure out why it happened. Let me know if that works.

-Arian 6/1/2006 6:17 AM | Arian

# re: Time Tracker Enhancements

Thanks for the suggestion. I ended up deleting the whole section from ProjectsForm.resx that contained the dataset (from line 203 to line 265). Then the section was "automagically" recreated and all worked OK - go figure.
6/1/2006 12:58 PM | Dragos

# re: Time Tracker Enhancements

Nice and simple application that does the job.

FYI, timeTrackerNotifyIcon.Text exception occurs during ProjectForm.LoadEntries() when the project name is 34+ characters long. 11/14/2006 2:33 PM | Jose

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