agallardol / open-weather

.NET C # Sample solution that contains a WPF app built using the MVVM pattern, a Windows Service that accesses the user's current weather data in background using OpenWeatherMapApi, a .NET library to access the OpenWeatherMapApi data, a .NET library to persist the weather data in a SQLite database and SetupProject generated by the installer of the WPF app and the Windows Service.

Open Weather

OpenWeather is a .NET C # Sample solution that contains a WPF app built using the MVVM pattern, a Windows Service that accesses the user's current weather data in background using OpenWeatherMapApi, a .NET library to access the OpenWeatherMapApi data, a .NET library to persist the weather data in a SQLite database and SetupProject generated by the installer of the WPF app and the Windows Service.

Basic setup

Required tools

To build this solution, the following tools were used:

• Visual Studio Community 2019
• .NET 4.7.2
• Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects

Required libraries

The following libraries where installed using nugget:

• Ninject
• SQLite-net

Assumptions

• This project was built assumpting the user has internet connection.
• This project was built assumpting the user has enabled the access location in the device running the application.

About the solution

This solution is composed of 5 projects:

• OpenWeatherApp: WPF app built using the MVVM pattern with simple and basics classes to support the pattern. In this app you can Start/Stop the windows service that access to the weather data and update and visualize the latest weather data stored by the windows service using OpenWeatherDataStore.
• OpenWeatherDataStore: Simple .NET library to persist the weather data using SQLite.
• OpenWeatherMapApi: Simple .NET library to request the weather data from the OpenWeatherMapApi. This library was buit auto generating code using AutoRest and doing just minimum changes.
• OpenWeatherService: Windows Service that access to the weather data using OpenWeatherMapApi project and store it in a SQLite database using OpenWeatherDataStore project.
• OpenWeatherInstaller: Setup Project built using Microsoft Visual Studio Installer Projects to create an installer (.msi) that install the WPF application and the Windows Service.

Running the solution

To execute this project you must follow the following steps:

Download visual studio solution

git clone https://github.com/agallardol/open-weather.git

Edit App.config file

You can change all of this config vars, but to run the project you just need to config OpenWeatherMapApiAppId.

• OpenWeatherMapApiBaseAddress: It's the base address of the OpenWeatherMapApi, for example, "https://api.openweathermap.org/data/2.5/".
• OpenWeatherMapApiAppId: It's the AppId created in the OpenWeatherMap platform.
• DataStoreFileName: It's the filename to persist the weather data using sqlite.
• GetCurrentWeatherServiceName: It's the service name of the Windows Service contained in the OpenWeatherService project.

Build solution

Open "OpenWeather.sln" using Visual Studio Community 2019, then "Right Click" in .sln file and select "Build solution".

Install OpenWeatherService

• Navigate to project folder
• Enter to OpenWeatherService/bin/[debug|release]
• Open PowerShell and run installutil -u .\OpenWeatherService.exe

At this point you will have the Windows service installed =D

Run OpenWeatherApp

• At this point just press Play in Visual Studio =D

Creating the installer

The installer of the app just "Right Click" on the "OpenWeatherInstaller" project and select "Build project".

At this point you will have the following files:

CC Attributions

"App icon" by Atif Arshad