Scheduling Application (C# WinForms)

A desktop scheduling application built with C# and Windows Forms that allows users to manage customers and appointments with time-zone–aware validation and multilingual login feedback.

Features

• Secure user login with authentication validation
• Automatic language detection for login error messages (English / French)
• Time-zone–aware appointment scheduling
  • Appointments stored in UTC
  • Business rules validated against Eastern Time (EST)
• Customer and appointment management (add, modify, delete)
• Data persistence using a MySQL database
• Input validation and user-friendly error handling

Technologies Used

• C# (.NET, WinForms)
• MySQL
• Visual Studio
• Git & GitHub

Localization Example

The application detects the user’s system language and displays login error messages accordingly.

French Login Failure Example

When the system language is set to French, failed login attempts display localized error messages.

Screenshots

Login

Customers

Edit Customer

Appointments

Edit Appointment

Reports

Report Option 1

Report Option 2

Report Option 3

Running the Application

1. Open the solution file (.sln) in Visual Studio
2. Restore NuGet packages if prompted
3. Configure the MySQL connection string
4. Build and run the application

Notes

• Build artifacts (bin, obj) are excluded via .gitignore
• The application follows standard desktop application design patterns and validation practices