MMCloud - File Storage and Sharing

Windows application that provides Cloud file storage and file sharing solutions using TCP socket programming in C#

Designed & Implemented by:

• Mert Kosan
• M.Mucahid Benlioglu

Getting Started

This repository contains both server-side and client-side projects and combines these two with one .sln file.

Folder Structure:

/
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|___ MMClient/
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|___ MMServer/
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|___ MMCloud.sln

In order to obtain a successful developement environment, project should be loaded from MMCloud.sln. This way common functionalities wil be connected in a proper manner.

Features

• Client:

  • Provide input checks to confirm whether the entered input is in the appropriate format or not, prompts proper message if not.
  • Client login supports timeout for login operation, prompts appropriate message for failed connections (i.e. no server running at given address)
  • If the username entered is already active in the system, User is shown an appropriate messagebox and connection is terminated.
  • After login user can browse files to upload, upload files to server, download, rename, delete or manage sharing status of existing files in the cloud, logout or terminate the application.
  • User can select multiple files to upload. These files are queued and sequentially uploaded.
  • Client detects the server's availability during upload request, and automatically logs out the user.
  • If user wants to logout or terminate the application during an ongoing upload, he/she will be prompted to decide whether to cancel the upload and leave or stay.

• Server:

  • During initialization validity of port number and selected cloud path is checked, if any inconsistencies are found an appropriate prompt is shown to user.
  • The server can check if the user already active in the system.
  • The server can create necessery files & folders for the user.
  • The server can handle multiple incoming connections.
  • The server can be stopped and started anytime, if a server stop or crash happens, client will cancel any upload process.
  • After the termination of the program, when server is restarted previously selected cloud path will be remembered and filepath will be automatically filled with the previous selection.

• All activities done by both client and server is printed to their respective rich text boxes.