📋 Project Management System

A cross-platform desktop application built with Avalonia UI and .NET 10, featuring multi-user authentication, per-user settings, a custom notification system, and a fully themed UI.

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✨ Features

🚀 Start-Up

• Simple startup page with app's name on it
• smoothly animated (FadeIn and out)

↔️ Page Transitions

• Smooth page slide transitions between pages
• Using warmup at startup to prevent laggy animations

🙋 Welcome Page

• A minimal, animated, modern welcome experience
• Supports up to 6 remembered accounts for quick access
• Personalized account cards with profile pictures or generated initials
• Each remembered account displays its own accent color identity
• One-click account selection for faster sign-in
• "Use Another Account" option for signing in with non-remembered accounts
• Secure authentication flow requiring password verification after account selection

🔐 Authentication

• User registration with input validation (email format, password strength)
• Password visibility toggle feature
• Secure login with BCrypt password hashing
• Smooth Animated sign-in / sign-up transition
• Session management via a singleton SessionService

📊 User Dashboard

• User dashboard with 5 pages (Home, Messages, Tasks, Members and Settings)
• Collapsible Navigation Bar
• Projects List
• Totally customizable with 34 combinations of 17 accent colors and Dark/Light Theme

👤 Per-User Account Management

• Profile picture upload, display, and deletion (stored as BLOB in PostgreSQL per user)
• Profile initials fallback when no picture is set
• Per-user settings persisted in individual JSON files (settings.user.{id}.json)
• Last logged-in user's settings automatically restored on app startup

🎨 Appearance & Theming

• 3 theme modes: System, Light, Dark
• 17 accent color presets with gradient previews (Slate Violet, Google Blue, Deep Purple, Emerald, and more)
• Each accent color preset comes with its own unique signin Picture
• All colors applied dynamically via Avalonia resource dictionaries
• Accent colors are looked up by name from a central AccentColorsBase
• Accent colors are also saved to PostgreSQL database

🔔 Notification System

• JetBrains-style toast notifications sliding in from the bottom right
• 4 notification types: Normal, Success, Warning, Error — each with a distinct color accent
• Queue system — notifications are stacked and processed one by one
• Up to 3 notifications visible at once with a stacked card depth effect (scale + offset)
• Per-notification 10s auto-dismiss timer (configurable: 3s, 5s, 10s, 20s, Never)
• Dismiss top (minus icon) or dismiss all (cross icon) controls
• Smooth slide-in / slide-out animations at ~60fps

⚙️ Settings Page

• Theme switcher with radio buttons
• Accent color picker (circular gradient swatches)
• Profile picture management
• Notification toggle (enable/disable)
• Auto-dismiss duration selector

🛠️ Project Creation

• Creating project with name, description, deadline
• Assigning users to project and giving them roles
• Defining tasks for the project and assigning a user to it
• Each task with title, description, assignee, priority, deadline

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📸 Screenshots

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🏗️ Project Structure

ProjectManagementSystem/
├── Assets/
│   └── Icons/           # icons used for main window
│   └── Images/          # 17 accent color background images (Git LFS)
│   └── Fonts/           # Fonts for both texts (Nunito) and Icons (Phosphor)
├── Converters/          # Custom converters
├── Data/
│   └── AppDbContext.cs  # EF Core PostgreSQL context
├── Enums/               # NotificationType, AuthenticationMode
├── Helpers/
│   └── UserValidator.cs # Email & password validation
├── Models/              # User, Notification, AppSettings, AccentColorOption, etc.
├── Repositories/        # One Repository per table (Data level access)
├── Services/            # AppSettingsService, NotificationService, SessionService, SharedAnimationService, NavigationService and etc.
├── Styles/              # Avalonia AXAML stylesheets per view
├── ViewModels/          # MVVM ViewModels (CommunityToolkit.Mvvm)
├── Views/               # Avalonia UserControls and Windows
└── .github/workflows/   # CI build via GitHub Actions

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Technology	Purpose
Avalonia UI 12	Cross-platform desktop UI framework
.NET 10	Runtime & language (C# 13)
EF Core 10 + SQLite	Database ORM
CommunityToolkit.Mvvm	MVVM source generators
BCrypt.Net-Next	Password hashing
Git LFS	Large image asset storage
GitHub Actions	CI — build on every push

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🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• .NET 10 SDK
• PostgreSQL 16+
• Any IDE: Rider, Visual Studio 2022, or VS Code
• Git LFS — required for image assets

1. Clone the Repository

git lfs install
git clone https://github.com/ManiINFINITE/ProjectManagementSystem_Avalonia.git
cd ProjectManagementSystem_Avalonia

2. Set Up PostgreSQL

1. Install PostgreSQL and make sure the service is running
2. Open pgAdmin or psql and create the database:

CREATE DATABASE "ProjectManagementSystem";

3. Open Data/AppDbContext.cs and update the connection string with your credentials:

"Host=localhost;Database=ProjectManagementSystem;Username=YOUR_USERNAME;Password=YOUR_PASSWORD"

3. Apply Migrations

dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef
dotnet ef database update

This creates all tables automatically.

4. Restore & Run

dotnet restore
dotnet run

⚠️ This project is still in active development. A standalone installer will be available upon release.

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🗺️ Roadmap

• Project editing and deletion
• Project dashboard and tracking
• In-app messaging between users
• Role-based permissions (Admin, Member, Viewer)

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📄 License

This project is open source and available under the MIT License.

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👨‍💻 Author

ManiINFINITE — Designed and developed independently as a portfolio project.