This is a comprehensive ASP.NET Core application designed to manage contacts. The application provides a clean and intuitive user interface for performing CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on a database of contacts. It also includes features for sorting, filtering, and exporting contact data in various formats. This project is built using a clean architecture approach, with a clear separation of concerns between the domain, infrastructure, and UI layers.

• User Registration and Authentication: Secure user registration and login functionality.
• CRUD Operations: Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations for contacts.
• Filtering and Sorting: Easily filter and sort the contact list based on various criteria.
• Data Export: Export contact data to the following formats:
  • CSV
  • Excel
  • PDF
  • JSON
  • ZIP (Containing all above)

• .NET
• ASP.NET Core
• Entity Framework Core
• Serilog
• Bogus
• CsvHelper
• EPPlus
• Rotativa.AspNetCore
• xUnit
• Moq
• FluentAssertions

To get the project up and running on your local machine, follow these steps:

• .NET 9.0 SDK
• SQL Server

Clone the repository to your local machine.

Open the ContactManager.UI/appsettings.json file and update the ConnectionStrings:Default value to point to your local SQL Server instance.

"ConnectionStrings": {
  "Default": "Data Source=YOUR_SERVER_NAME;Initial Catalog=ContactManager;Integrated Security=True;Connect Timeout=30;Encrypt=False;Trust Server Certificate=False;Application Intent=ReadWrite;Multi Subnet Failover=False"
}

Open a terminal in the ContactManager.UI directory and run the following command to apply the database migrations:

dotnet ef database update

In the same terminal, run the following command to start the application:

dotnet run

The application will be available at http://localhost:5000 or https://localhost:5001.