I would like to rewrite my auto responder and follow-up desktop software in C#. The project is to create the user interface and the related CRUD operations. This project is all about the front facing UI and not about the email processing logic.

What the program does
The software is an automated system that instantly emails information to customers and prospects. It is an auto-responder that checks the contents of your incoming emails to determine how to reply to it. In addition, it can automatically follow-up with them over the coming days, weeks, and months. You can send one or more messages at preset time intervals. For instance, you can create 10 messages and release them to prospects on the schedule you specify. Visit http://www.devicode.com/products/responsemailer/ for more details on how the program works.

What you are required to do
1. Create a professional looking user interface.
2. Create the CRUD for the entities/screens.
3. Create an easy to use user interface.
4. Use NHibernate/Fluent/LINQ to SQL with either SQLServerCe or SQLite database.
5. WPF for user interface. The main object is for the view to have very little code-behind and binds to the data context.
6. MVVM pattern – or similar pattern that implements the ‘Principle of Separation of Concerns’
7. Business rule, model, data access rule, and view model should be unit testable with NUnit or similar framework.

Don’t worry about complex business rules
Some of the business rules are quite complex and therefore you are not required to code those parts. You are only required to create stub class for the public methods that are called by the UI. Note that, there is no need for you to be concerned with the internal workings.

I will provide more details to prospective coder.

Requirements Interview Answers:
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Bid request Type: What kind of work do you need done? Software related (Includes desktop applications and internet websites) Bid request Parts: What do you want the worker to do on this bid request? Requirements: The worker will analyze the problem and propose a software-based solution to the problem. Programming: The worker will take the requirements and translate them into the language of the computer (and test it). User installation: The installer will move the software from the place it was created (which is called the development or QC environment) to where you will use it (which is called the production environment). The installer then tests the software to make sure that the installation was done properly and completely. Req. Doc. Type: What kind of documentation do you want for this bid request? Formal documentation - After talking back and forth, the worker creates a formal document and/or prototype, as follows: Prototype: The analyst will create a non-working mockup of all pages/screens in the final software. Creating a prototype makes it easier for the user to visualize the final software, and reduces misunderstandings. Program Type: What kind of software should the worker create (and/or install)? A desktop or server program: This software runs on a user's own PC/workstation, or on a server. Desktop / server program info Size of application: How many screens/forms need to be created/edited in this application? Approximately 20+. Programming Language: What programming language(s) do you want your application written in? I do know the language(s). Languages(s): C# Operating system(s) What operating systems(s) do you want your application to work on? I do know the operating system(s): Microsoft Windows -- version(s): XP/Vista/7 Database: Will this bid request include a database? Yes, it does include a database. Details: SQL Server -- version(s): CE Installation Program: Does the worker need to create an installation program? Yes AND the program will be installed on only a single computer. Legal: 1) I require complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done (so that I may modify it in the future). 2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition as follows. All other software (including but not limited to any desktop software or software the buyer intends to distribute) must include a software installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this bid request (unless specified elsewhere by the Buyer). 3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. 3b) No part of the deliverable may contain any copyright restricted 3rd party components (including GPL, GNU, Copyleft, etc.) unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the worker's Worker Legal Agreement.

Other Requirements:

• All deliverables must be uploaded to Rent A Coder before the deadline(s) for this bid request...with no exceptions. If this contract makes it impossible for a competent person to do this, then do not start this bid request...but instead alert Rent A Coder of an un-arbitratable, illegal bid request.
  

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