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Kingsbury Shaw Ltd were asked to develop an application 'EasyRef' for The London Society of Rugby Football Union Referees (LSRFUR) that would assign referees to matches across Britain. I was asked to undertake the task of being the Key Developer for this project and decided that it would be built using Visual Basic.NET and Crystal Reports 9 to develop the 20+ reports that would power the reporting suite.

Once built, the model acted as a client application which was deployed to a number of clients' machines. These client apps would then communicate via a synchronisation facility to a  central server database (MS SQL Server available via a public network). The client databases were made up of two linked components:

·         an application component – this contained the forms and functionality

·         a data component – this contained the data that is read into the application component

The client applications work independently of one another allowing appointment managers to manage their own regional data (club, member, fixture, etc). The synchronisation routine enables the client application to export changes with the central database allowing that data to be shared with other EasyRef users and for subsequent publishing on www.londonrugby.com while a download routine pulls data from the central server onto the client application.

Software used: VB.NET,  MS Access, Seagate Crystal Reports.