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1 PROJECT SUMMARY

A Student Management System (SMS) for Hospital Management Information

System (HMIS) is a System that manages the records of student regarding admission and
examination part.

A Student Management System (SMS) is designed to help collages for

management of dental student. Extensive information is available at your fingertips
through this System. Viewing student data, managing admission and reshuffling
,managing seats, quota, board, semester, faculty, category and for examination, block
allocation, subject management , scheduling exam, result and related issues are made
simple and easy. There are custom search capabilities to aid in finding student information
and working on student records. This can make the system easier to navigate and to use
maximizing the effectiveness of time and other resources. SMS allows the keeping of
personnel data in a form that can be easily accessed and analyzed in a consistent way.

The SMS module is a component covering many other student aspects from
application to retirement. The system records basic personal information, admission
information, education information regarding student. Leading edge systems provide the
ability to "read" applications and enter relevant data to applicable database fields, notify
student and provide result. Student management function involves

 Manage new admission and enrolment

 Manage quota
 Manage board
 Manage category
 Manage Fees Structure
 Roll number generation
 Fees payment

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  student Basic Information
 Manage faculty
 Manage designation
 Manage course and specialty
 Manage semester and year
 admission seat management
 Exam scheduling
 Result management
 Subject management
 Block management

In SMS, every user has a Login ID and Password. Also all the users have different
permission rights to access the applications. These rights are Dynamic and can be
changed.

There are three main roles in the system. Admin, accountant and operator. Admin has
complete access to the whole system, while accountant is only concerned with payment of
fees for the admission of the student. Operator is the role that is responsible for the use of
the system.

The Admin role can be as follow:

 Introduce new quota, board, category, course, etc

 Set fees structures
 Manage faculties
 Manage subjects
 Seat management
 Management of semester
 Generation of student roll number
 Set examination

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The operator role can:

 New admission and enrolment

 Search student
 Block allocation
 Result, etc

Now when the user with the particular role Logs on he can see only those pages which
are allowed to them.

1.2 PURPOSE

The project is about to handle all the information of the student regarding
admission and examination. Also it manages resources which were managed and handled
by manpower previously. The main purpose of the project is to integrate distinct sections
of the organization into consistent manner so that complex functions can be handled
smoothly by any technical or non-technical persons.

The project aims at the following matters:

 Automation of admission and enrolment as per board, quota, category and available
seats.
 Assistance in decision-making.
 To manage information of student, faculty and courses.
 Consistently update information of all the students.
 Reports- To gather all the related information about any application of the HRMS.

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All the above-mentioned matters are to be incorporated in the application along with some
additional requirements.

The main purpose of the Admin Module is to introduce new things and configure
important aspects. For e.g. only admin is authorized to introduce quota, board, subject,
category, etc. and only admin is allowed to configure exam and set fees structure. So the
master screens for all these are visible to only admin role. This is done by the Admin
Module. It also can create the users and Physical and Logical Locations. Thus the main
purpose of the Admin Module is to managing the dynamic working of the system.

1.3 SCOPE
The scope of the project includes the following
 Any college can use this system as it is not client centric.
 All admission and examination related work for the student can be done using this
system.
 Deliver Electronic Workplace
 Provide Bi-lingual support
 Application Support & Maintenance after deployment to production
 The Admin Module can be reused for projects as well which have many users with
different rights. Hence it is reusable.

1.4 TECHNOLOGY & LITERATURE REVIEW

We are not having any past

work system. We are designing this
project for the first time. So we are
free to use any technology that we
want .Online Recruitment is a web
application developed using ASP.Net
using C# used as front end with Sql
server-2005 used as back end.

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 The .NET Framework is a set of objects and blueprints from

Fig 1.1 .NET framework Architecure

Microsoft for building applications.

The .NET Framework provides the underlying functionality of ASP.NET. All

applications developed under the .NET framework including ASP.NET applications,
have certain key feature that ensure compatibility, security, and stability.

2.4.1 Common Language Runtime

The Common Language Runtime (CLR) is an environment that manages the

execution of code. In other words, it runs and maintains any code that you write. With
the .NET framework and CLR you still write code and compile it. However, instead of
compiling it into something that computer understands, you compile it into a language
called the Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL). This language is shorthand way of
representing all the code you have written. ASP.NET pages are compiled into MSIL as
well. When you compile to MSIL, your application produces something called metadata.
This is descriptive information about your application. It tells what the application can do,
where it belongs, and so on.

1.4.2 Introduction about ASP.NET

ASP.NET, the latest version of Active Server Pages, is Microsoft’s technology for
building dynamic pages, database-driven Web sites. Active Server Pages is one of the
most popular languages for building scalable, interactive Web sites. Several of the highest
traffic Web sites on the Internet employs Active Server Pages. Examples include Dell
Online, Barnes and Noble, 1-800-flowers, and the Microsoft site itself.

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 1.4.2.1 Easy Programming Model

ASP.NET makes building real world Web applications dramatically easier. 

ASP.NET server controls enable an HTML-like style of declarative programming that let
you build great pages with far less code than with classic ASP.  Displaying data, validating
user input, and uploading files are all amazingly easy.  Best of all, ASP.NET pages work
in all browsers -- including Netscape, Opera, AOL, and Internet Explorer.

1.4.2.2 Flexible Language Options

ASP.NET lets you leverage your current programming language skills.  Unlike
classic ASP, which supports only interpreted VBScript and JScript, ASP.NET now
supports more than 25 .NET languages (including built-in support for VB.NET, C#, and
JScript.NET -- no tool required), giving you unprecedented flexibility in your choice
of language.

1.4.2.3 Great Tool Support

You can harness the full power of ASP.NET using any text editor
-- even Notepad!  But Visual Studio 2005 adds the productivity of Visual Basic-style
development to the Web.  Now you can visually design ASP.NET Web Forms using
familiar drag-drop-double-click techniques, and enjoy full-fledged code support including
statement completion and color-coding.  VS.NET also provides integrated support for
debugging and deploying ASP.NET Web applications.

The Professional version of Visual Studio 2005 delivers life-cycle features to help

organizations plan, analyze, design, build, test, and coordinate teams that develop
ASP.NET Web applications.  These include UML class modeling, database modeling
(conceptual, logical, and physical models), testing tools (functional, performance and

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scalability), and enterprise frameworks and templates, all available within the integrated
Visual Studio .NET environment.

1.4.2.4 Rich Class Framework

Application features that used to be hard to implement, or required a 3rd-party

component, can now be added in just a few lines of code using the .NET Framework. 
The .NET Framework offers over 4500 classes that encapsulate rich functionality like
XML, data access, file upload, regular expressions, image generation, performance
monitoring and logging, transactions, message queuing, SMTP mail, and much more!

1.4.2.5 Compiled execution

ASP.NET is much faster than classic ASP, while preserving the "just hit save"
update model of ASP.  However, no explicit compile step is required!  ASP.NET will
automatically detect any changes, dynamically compile the files if needed, and store the
compiled results to reuse for subsequent requests.  Dynamic compilation ensures that your
application is always up to date, and compiled execution makes it fast. 

1.4.2.6 Rich output caching

ASP.NET output caching can dramatically improve the performance and

scalability of your application.  When output caching is enabled on a page, ASP.NET
executes the page just once, and saves the result in memory in addition to sending it to the
user.  When another user requests the same page, ASP.NET serves the cached result from
memory without re-executing the page.   Output caching is configurable, and can be used
to cache individual regions or an entire page.  Output caching can dramatically improve

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the performance of data-driven pages by eliminating the need to query the database on
every request.

1.4.2.7 Web-Farm Session State

ASP.NET session state lets you share session data user-specific state values across
all machines in your Web farm.  Now a user can hit different servers in the web farm over
multiple requests and still have full access to her session.  And since business components
created with the .NET Framework are free-threaded, you no longer need to worry about
thread affinity.

1.4.2.8 Memory Leak, DeadLock and Crash Protection

ASP.NET automatically detects and recovers from errors like deadlocks and
memory leaks to ensure your application is always available to your users. 
For example, say that your application has a small memory leak, and that after a week the
leak has tied up a significant percentage of your server's virtual memory.  ASP.NET will
detect this condition, automatically start up another copy of the ASP.NET worker process,
and direct all new requests to the new process.  Once the old process has finished
processing its pending requests, it is gracefully disposed and the leaked memory is
released.  Automatically, without administrator intervention or any interruption of service,
ASP.NET has recovered from the error.

1.4.2.9 Dynamic update of running application

ASP.NET now lets you update compiled components without restarting the web
server.  In the past with classic COM components, the developer would have to restart the

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web server each time he deployed an update.  With ASP.NET, you simply copy the
component over the existing DLL -- ASP.NET will automatically detect the change and
start using the new code. 

1.4.2.10 Easy Migration Path

You do not have to migrate your existing applications to start using ASP.NET. 
ASP.NET runs on IIS side-by-side with classic ASP on Windows 2000 and Windows XP
platforms.  Your existing ASP applications continue to be processed by ASP.DLL, while
new ASP.NET pages are processed by the new ASP.NET engine.  You can migrate
application by application, or single pages.  And ASP.NET even lets you continue to use
your existing classic COM business components. ASP.Net represents a radical departure
from previous versions of Active Server Pages.

Following are some of the significant new features of ASP.NET 2.0 Framework:

ASP.NET uses compiled code written in Common Language Runtime language such as
Visual Basic and C#. Unlike previous versions of Active Server Pages, this version not use
interpreted scripting language such as VBScript.

An advanced version of .NET 1.1 which has proved to be a milestone in web

technology of today’s time. ASP.NET pages are built out of server – side controls. Web
server controls enable you to represent and program against Hypertext Markup Language
(HTML) elements using an intuitive object model.

ASP.NET includes a new technology called Web Services. You can use Web
Services to access methods and properties and transfer database data across the Internet.
ASP.NET is part of Microsoft’s .NET framework. You can access thousands of .NET

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classes in your code that enable you to perform such wondrously diverse tasks as
generating images on - the - fly and saving an array to a file. ASP.Net includes page and
data caching mechanisms that enable you to easily and dramatically improve the
performance of your Web Site.

1.4.2.11 Faces Of Asp.Net

With ASP.NET 3.5, Microsoft aims to continue its success by refining and
enhancing ASP.NET. The good news is that Microsoft hasn’t removed features, replaced
functionality, or reversed direction. Instead, almost all the changes add higher-level
features that can make your programming more productive.

All in all, there have been four major releases of ASP.NET:

• ASP.NET 1.0: This first release created the core ASP.NET platform and introduced a
wide range of essential features.

• ASP.NET 1.1: This second release added performance tune-ups and bug fixes, but no
new features.

• ASP.NET 2.0: This third release piled on a huge set of new features, all of which were
built on top of the existing ASP.NET plumbing. The overall emphasis was to supply
developers with prebuilt goodies that they could use without writing much (if any) code.
Some of the new features included built-in support for website navigation, a theming
feature for standardizing web page design, and an easier way to pull information out of a
database.

• ASP.NET 3.5: This fourth release keeps the same basic engine as ASP.NET 2.0, but adds
a few frills and two more dramatic changes. The most significant enhancement is the
ASP.NET AJAX toolkit, which gives web developers better tools for creating highly
responsive web pages that incorporate rich effects usually seen in desktop applications
(such as drag-and-drop and auto complete). The other innovation is support for LINQ, a

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set of language enhancements included with .NET 3.5 that allows you to search in-
memory data in the same way that you query a database.

If you’re wondering what happened to ASP.NET 3.0—well, it doesn’t exist! Somewhat

confusingly,

Microsoft used the .NET 3.0 name to release a set of new technologies, including
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), a platform for building slick Windows
applications; Windows Workflow Foundation (WF), a platform for modelling application
logic using flowchart-style diagrams; and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), a
platform for designing services that can be called from other computers. However, .NET
3.0 did not include an updated version of ASP.NET.

1.4.2.12 Visual Studio 2008

Visual Studio has come a long way since its inception in 1997. Visual Studio 97 hit the
street with the goals of enabling developers to share and see large projects through a
complete development cycle regardless of the different languages and deployment
schemes.

That was followed up by Visual Studio 6.0 with its integrated development environment
and built-in data designers for architecting large-scale and multi-tier applications, with the
goals of supporting distributed and heterogeneous environments and architectures.

1.4.2.13 Linq

Many of the new language features and enhancements in Visual Studio 2008—both in
Visual C# and Visual Basic .NET—make many of the LINQ features possible and enable
you to take advantage of some of the LINQ capabilities.

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Included with the new Visual Studio release are a number of designers that can help
developers visually create many aspects of their SQL entity classes and associations. For
example, the Object Relational Designer (O/R Designer) provides a visual interface for
creating and designing LINQ to SQL entity classes and associations of database objects.

Visual Studio 2008 also comes with the DataSet Designer, a visual tool used for creating
and manipulating typed DataSets and the associated items of which the datasets are made,
providing a visual image of the objects within the DataSets.

LINQ will be released in the next version of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework,
currently slated for version 3.5. Because much of the LINQ functionality is based on the
new features of the .NET Framework, this chapter explores those features and
enhancements that help support LINQ and provide LINQ with the foundation it needs
from a language perspective. It looks at the new language-specific features in both C# and
Visual Basic .NET

 WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation)—New technology for building rich content,

‘‘Windows Vista’’–type user interfaces, and experiences combining application UI and

media content.

 WCF (Windows Communication Foundation)—New technology for building and

deploying reliable, secure, and interoperable connected systems across distributed systems

and environments.

 WF (Windows Workflow Foundation)—A programming engine for building

workflow-enabled applications.

 WCS (Windows CardSpace)—Microsoft’s technology for managing digital identities.

Today, Visual Studio 2008 focuses on providing developers with a rich experience for
Windows Vista, the web, and Office 2008, while continuing to improve its development

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languages and innovations. Visual Studio 2008 contains a number of new features,
including C# and Visual Basic .NET language features, improved data features such as
multi-tier support for typed datasets and hierarchical update capabilities, and a web
application project model.

However, the most exciting new feature of Visual Studio 2008 (in my opinion) is LINQ,
Microsoft’s new Language Integrated Query, which extends powerful query capabilities
into your favourite .NET programming language.

1.4.3 Architecture Used/Followed (4-TIER ARCHITECTURE)

Presentation Control Object Business Logic Data access

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ASP + JS SQL Server

For designing the entire software we have divided the whole software into four main
layers. And each layer provides service to the other layer. So we can easily proceed
towards the target. These layers are namely

 Presentation layer
 Business layer
 Control layer
 Data Access layer

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Presentation Layer

The Presentation layer is responsible for the user interface and communicates
directly with the business logic layer. Separating the presentation layer from the rest of the
application enables the development of different user interface (i.e. Web form, Windows
form, mobile devices) that all uses the same business logic and database access code.

Business Layer

The logic layer separates the code specific to the application, for the way company
does the business, from the user interface and the database specific code. Other line of
business Applications a company build can use the business logic layer if needed,
maximizing the code reuse.

Control Layer

The Control layer is responsible for communication between business layer and
presentation layer. It connects the logic and data with each other and gives a better
connectivity and separation between layers.

Data Access Layer

Project Flow Lines and Artificial Lift use a Microsoft SQL Server Express
Edition database.

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