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Introduction
This page documents the various client applications that Time And Labor Company provides to it's customers for integration purposes. If you wish to bypass this and go directly to the source code examples for developing your own integrations with Time And Labor Company products, please contact us for more information.
Timecard Test Clients
Built in C Sharp (C#)
The Timecard CSharp Full Test Client exercises the full set of methods and data types in the Timecard Web Service. It uses Datasets to store the data in xml files within the application folder, allowing users to effectively perform any function of the website via the application interface.
It is made up of several panels, each of which is capable of running a group of related methods, e.g. methods for manipulating user events, teams, etc. On the right hand side of each panels are two groups of buttons. The top group of light gray buttons contain buttons for calling methods to manipulate the local data storage, which is stored as xml files within the application folder. The lower group of dark gray buttons contain buttons for calling Timecard SOAP methods, i.e. those methods to interact with Timecard webserver.
The source code of this test client application should be able to help current and potential users of Timecards write their own modules to interact with Timecard webserver. It represents the coding required to link an external report or data management system with Timecard, and the source code is available to assist developers in creating their own linking modules to Timecard. For example, should a developer need to develop a module to manage teams in Timecard webserver, he or she could have a look at the source code for the "Team Management" panel.
Visual Studio 2003
The Timecard C# Full Test Client has been built to completely exercise all the functions and features of the Timecard SOAP API. It allows you to retrieve information about users events and hours of specified time intervals, and create new users and teams.
The Test clients built under Visual Studio 2003 are designed to run against the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1. The 1.1 Framework can be downloaded from Microsoft's website : http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/
Visual Studio 2005
The Test clients built under Visual Studio 2003 are designed to run against the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. The 2.0 Framework can be downloaded from Microsoft's website : http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/
Built in Visual Basic .Net
The Visual Basic Test Clients is more limited in scope compared to its C Sharp alternative as it focuses on a single method of the appropriate SOAP API. However, it contains highly detailed and comprehensive commenting in the source code. This Visual Basic client is designed to show existing and potential users of Timecard how to write Visual Basic .NET program to interact with Timecard webserver, i.e. how to invoke an Timecard SOAP method and process the returned value using a Visual Basic .NET program. This example should be sufficient as the procedures for invoking all of the other Timecard SOAP methods (as well as processing the returned values) are the same.
The provided Visual Basic Timecard Test Client can only access the SOAP method to retrieve event details of a user, within a given time period, given the primary key of the user, the start date and the end date of the period.
Visual Studio 2003
The Test clients built under Visual Studio 2003 are designed to run against the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1. The 1.1 Framework can be downloaded from Microsoft's website : http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/
Visual Studio 2005
The Test clients built under Visual Studio 2005 are designed to run against the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. The 2.0 Framework can be downloaded from Microsoft's website : http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/updates/
