International Journal of Computer Science Issues

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As the internet proliferates a web of interlinked data wider across the globe and deeper into the remotest areas, many more users across the globe are getting access to the web. With the advent of Web 2.0 the pattern of internet usage has undergone a paradigm shift. Every user enjoys a virtual presence by creating personalized profiles at different portals like social network websites Facebook, LinkedIn etc & as in our case faculty/employees profiles at College/Organization. These profiles act as a repository of information of the user and help the employers/students to choose their prospective employees/institutions. Thus these profiles need to be regularly updated over the internet. At times , when a user wants to update his/her profile, there is a chance that net could be disconnected or very slow for images and publications etc. to upload, or there could be a chance that the user wants to have a full preview of his updates and uploads, before he actually wastes his bandwidth and hours on it. Keeping in mind these points of views we started to develop a desktop application that would aid the faculty at Delhi College of Engineering in updating their profiles at official website with ease. Through this paper we present user profile manger in the form of a desktop application. The tool is specifically engineered to facilitate the faculty members to regularly update their profiles and other auxiliary information on the college website remotely via their desktop. This tool is predominantly developed in C# programming language and relies on Microsoft.NET Framework 2.0. The application highlights the interaction of C# with a remote database server and ability of XML to persist data at client side and transfer the same also. We present a detailed look into the architecture of our application and then implement a prototype of the same.