Epharmacy Management System

E-PHARMACY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ABSTRACT Pharmacy management system can make the work easier by giving the details of the medicine when its name is entered. A computer gives the details of the medicine like rate of medicine, and the expiry date and the row and rack location of the medicine. It becomes very difficult in big medical stores to handle the details of all the medicines manually, so by using this pharmacy manage system we can maintain the records of all the medicines. By using this management system the time gets saved and there will be very negligible chance for the errors to occur. We can check the record instantly which is not possible by manual methods. As the system gives the information of the expired medicines we can discard them and replace them with new stock. Thus we can conclude that pharmacy management system is helpful for handling the tasks efficiently in the store. Pharmacy is the one of the medical facilities to serve the people of certain population for their healthcare. Before this, pharmacy uses the manual system to manage the medicine stock. It needs the pharmacist assistant check the medicine twice a week to check expire date of the medicine in the storage and the medicine that out of stock. The pharmacist assistant take out the medicine that rise the expired date and keep it at the safety place to avoid mistake the expired medicine to be sell. If there is the out of stock of the medicine, the purchase order form is filling by the pharmacist to order the medicine from the medicine company.

CHAPTER - 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 ABOUT THE PROJECT This project entitled with Pharmacy Management System. This application developed using VB.NET technology as front end and backend is MYSQL. Pharmacy Management system are employed in regulatory control and drug management, community pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, the pharmaceutical industry, academic activities, training of other health workers, and research. In all these fields, their aim is to ensure optimum drug therapy, both by contributing to the preparation, supply and control of medicines and associated products, and by providing information and advice to those who prescribe or use pharmaceutical products. Pharmacy management system can make the work easier by giving the details of the medicine when its name is entered. A computer gives the details of the medicine like rate of medicine. It becomes very difficult in big medical stores to handle the details of all the medicines manually, so by using this pharmacy manage system we can maintain the records of all the medicines. A pharmacy information system must retrieve process and update the information it obtains for safe and effective use of drugs. It is used to manage drug usage in the patient health care process and to communicate a large volume of information to pharmacy and pharmaceutical firms. The pharmacy information system is normally used to support activities and the inventory. Pharmaceutical companies had developed some relationship, on marketing issues, with hospital pharmacies. The findings were in favor of

further therapeutic activities by pharmacy information systems, which could be achieved by improving relationship between hospitals and pharmaceutical firms, particularly in Tehran. 1.2 Modules Description: It has been modularized into following modules.  Administrator Module  Pharmacist Module  Cashier Module  Manager Module Administrator Module:  Pharmacist In that Admin can add new pharmacist and can view the pharmacists list. And He has the rights of delete Pharmacist Details.  Manager In that Admin can add new Manager and can view the Details of Managers and He has the rights of delete Manager Details.  Cashier In that Admin can add new cashier and can view the Details of Cashier and He has the rights of delete Cashier Details. Pharmacist Module Pharmacist Module used to add and view the prescription list. He can Maintain Stock Details and add new Medicines. This module gives the following details: 

Prescription



Stock

Cashier Module Cashier Module can collect the bills and cash. This Modules Maintain the all Process of Payment details. This module gives the following details 

Process payment (include invoice no, payment type, s.no etc..)

Manager Module Manager Module used to view the users Details and Prescription Details. And Can Add new medicines, View Medicine details. This module gives the following details  View Users 

View Prescription details

 Manage Medicine Details

CHAPTER - 2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENT 2.1 HARDWARE SPECIFICATION System

: Dual Core Processor

Hard Disk

: 500 GB

Monitor

: 15VGA Colour monitor

Mouse

: Logitech

RAM

: 2GB

Keyboard

: 110 keys enhanced

2.2 SOFTWARE SPECIFICATION Operating System

: Windows 7

Front End

: Microsoft Visual Studio

Back End

: SQL Server 2008

Coding Language

: .Net 2013

2.3 INTRODUCTION TO .NET The .NET platform is an integral component of the Microsoft Windows operating system for building and running next generation software applications and Web services.

The .NET development

framework provides a new and simplified model for programming and deploying applications on the Windows platform.

It provides such

advantages as multiplatform applications, automatic resource management, and simplification of application deployment.

As security is an essential

part of .NET, it provides security support, such as code authenticity check, resources access authorizations, declarative and imperative security, and cryptographic security methods for embedding into the user’s application.

.NET provides a simple object-oriented model to access most of the Windows application programming interfaces (APIs). It also provides mechanisms by which you can use the existing native code. In addition, it significantly extends the development platform by providing tools and technologies to develop Internet-based distributed applications. .NET FRAMEWORK The .NET Framework is a multi language, application execution environment that transparently manages core infrastructure services. It is a set of multiple languages/technologies used for developing and creating components to create Web Forms, Web services, and Windows applications.

It supports the software life cycle for development,

debugging, deployment, and maintenance of applications. The version of .NET framework that ships with Visual Studio .NET 2003 is version 1.1. The .NET Framework consists of the following parts: o

Common Language Runtime (CLR).

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.NET Framework base class library.

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Common Language Specification (CLS).

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.NET-compliant languages.

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Data and XML classes such as ADO.NET and XML.

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A set of class libraries for building XML Web services.

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ASP.NET Web Forms-based Web applications.

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Windows Forms-based rich client applications.

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Common Type System (CTS).

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Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 integrated development environment (IDE).

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS Microsoft provides the programming model, the development environment, and the tools necessary to build, deploy, and operate Web services with applications such as Visual Studio .NET 2003.

FIG. 2.1 .NET Framework Overview .NET ENTERPRISE SERVERS The Microsoft .NET enterprise servers make up the Microsoft .NET server infrastructure for deploying, managing, and operating XML Web services and traditional applications. Examples of enterprise servers are Microsoft SQL Server™ 2000 and Microsoft Commerce Server 2000. .NET FOUNDATION SERVICES A core set of building block services that execute standard tasks and act as a basis for developers to build upon. These foundation services are

known as Microsoft .NET My Services and provide many features and functions. services.

Most of the foundation services are hosted (outsourced) An example of a currently available Web service is Microsoft

.NET Passport. TRACING THE.NET HISTRY Sometime in the July 2000, Microsoft announced a whole new software development framework for Windows called .NET in the Professional Developer Conference (PDC).Microsoft also released PDC version of the software for the developers to test. After initial testing and feedback Beta 1 of .NET was announced. Beta 1 of the .NET itself got lot of attention from the developer community. When Microsoft announced Beta 2, it incorporated many changes suggested by the community and internals into the software. The overall ‘Beta’ phase lasted for more than 1 ½ years. Finally, in March 2002 Microsoft released final version of the .NET framework. One thing to be noted here is the change in approach of Microsoft while releasing this new platform. Unlike other software where generally only a handful people are involved in beta testing, .NET was thrown open to community for testing in it’s every pre-release version. This is one of the reasons why it created so many waves of excitement within the community and industry as well. Microsoft has put in great efforts in this new platform.

In fact Microsoft says that its future depends on

success of .NET. The development of .NET is such an important event that Microsoft considers it equivalent to transition from DOS to Windows. All the future development – including new and version upgrades of existing products – will revolve around .NET.

DEVELOPMENT TOOLS If you are developing applications that require speedy delivery to your customers and features like integration with some version control software then simple Notepad may not serve your purpose. In such cases you require some Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that allows for Rapid Action Development(RAD). The new Visual Studio.NET is such an IDE. VS.NET is a powerful and flexible IDE that makes developing .NET applications a breeze. Some of the features of VS.NET that make you more productive are: 

Drag and Drop design

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IntelliSense features

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Syntax highlighting and auto-syntax checking

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Excellent debugging tools

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Integration with version control software such as Visual Source Safe

(VSS) 

Easy project management

Note that when you install Visual Studio.NET, .NET Framework is automatically installed on the machine. FEATURES OF .NET Now that we know some basics of .NET, let us see what makes .NET a wonderful platform for developing modern applications. RICH FUNCTIONALITY OUT OF THE BOX .NET framework provides a rich set of functionality out of the box. It contains hundreds of classes that provide variety of functionality ready to use in your applications. This means that as a developer you need not go

into low level details of many operations such as file IO, network communication and so on. EASY DEVELOPMENT OF WEB APPLICATIONS ASP.NET is a technology available on .NET platform for developing dynamic and data driven web applications. ASP.NET provides an event driven programming model (similar to Visual Basic 6 that simplify development of webpages (now called as web forms) with complex user interface.

ASP.NET server controls provide advanced user interface

elements (like calendar and grids) that save lot of coding from programmer’s side. OOPS SUPPORT The advantages of Object Oriented programming are well known. .NET provides a fully object oriented environment. The philosophy of .NET is – “Object is mother of all.”

Languages like Visual Basic.NET

now support many of the features that were lacking traditionally.

Even

primitive types like integer and characters can be treated as objects – something not available even in Object Oriented languages like C++. MULTI-LANGUAGE SUPPORT Generally enterprises have varying skill sets.

For example, a

company might have people with skills in Visual Basic, C++, and Java etc. It is an experience that whenever a new language or environment is invented existing skills are outdated. This naturally increases cost of training and learning curve. .NET provides something attractive in this area. It supports multiple languages. This means that if you have skills in C++, you need not throw them but just mould them to suit.NET environment. Currently four languages are available right out of the box

namely – Visual Basic.NET, C# (pronounced as C-sharp), Jscript.NET and Managed C++ (a dialect of Visual C++). There are many vendors that are working on developing language compilers for other languages (20+ language compilers are already available). The beauty of multi language support lies in the fact that even though the syntax of each language is different, the basic capabilities of each language remain at par with one another. MULTI-DEVICE SUPPORT Modern life style is increasingly embracing mobile and wireless devices such as PDAs, mobiles and handheld PCs. . . .NET provides promising platform for programming such devices. .NET Compact Framework and Mobile Internet Toolkit are step ahead in this direction. AUTOMATIC MEMORY MANAGEMENT While developing applications developers had to develop an eye on system resources like memory. Memory leaks were major reason in failure of applications. .NET takes this worry away from developer by handling memory on its own.

The garbage collector takes care of freeing unused

objects at appropriate intervals. COMPATIBILITY WITH COM AND COM+ Before the introduction of .NET, COM was the de-facto standard for componentized software development. Companies have invested lot of money and efforts in developing COM components and controls.

The

good news is – you can still use COM components and ActiveX controls under .NET. This allows you to use your existing investment in .NET applications. .NET still relies on COM+ for features like transaction management and object pooling. In fact it provides enhanced declarative

support for configuring COM+ application right from your source code. Your COM+ knowledge still remains as a valuable asset. NO MORE DLL HELL If we have worked with COM components probably aware of “DLL hell”. DLL conflicts are a common fact in COM world. The main reason behind this was the philosophy of COM – “one version of component across machine”.

Also, COM components require registration in the

system registry. .NET ends this DLL hell by allowing applications to use their own copy of dependent DLLs. Also, .NET components do not require any kind of registration in system registry. STRONG XML SUPPORT Now days it is hard to find a programmer who is unaware of XML. XML has gained such a strong industry support that almost all the vendors have released some kind of upgrades or patches to their existing software to make it “XML Compatible”. Currently, .NET is the only platform that has built with XML right into the core framework. .NET tries to harness power of XML in every possible way.

In addition to providing support for

manipulating and transforming XML documents, .NET provides XML web services that are based on standards like HTTP, XML and SOAP. EASE OF DEPLOYMENT AND CONFIGURATION Deploying windows applications especially that used COM components were always been a tedious task. Since .NET does not require any registration as such, much of the deployment is simplified. This makes XCOPY deployment viable. Configuration is another area where .NET – especially ASP.NET – shines over traditional languages. The configuration is done via special files having special XML vocabulary. Since, most of the

configuration is done via configuration files, there is no need to sit in front of actual machine and configure the application manually. This is more important for web applications, simplyFTPing new configuration file makes necessary changes. SECURITY Windows platform was always criticized for poor security mechanisms. Microsoft has taken great efforts to make .NET platform safe and secure for enterprise applications. Features such as type safety, code access security and role based authentication make overall application more robust and secure. 2.4 INTRODUCTION TO VB.NET VB.NET Microsoft announced the .NET initiative in July 2000.Microsoft .NET is software that enables you to develop applications for different environments and devices. Microsoft has introduced the .NET initiative with the intention of bridge the gap in interoperability between applications. It aims at integrating various programming languages and services. .NET overcomes one of the biggest challenges of the software industry: to exchange data between applications written in different languages and for different environments. Microsoft .NET (pronounced “dot net”) is a software component that runs on the Windows operating system. .NET provides tools and libraries that enable developers to create Windows software much faster and easier. .NET benefits end-users by providing applications of higher capability, quality and security. The .NET Framework must be installed on a user’s PC to run in .NET applications.This is how Microsoft describes it: “.NET is

the Microsoft Web services strategy to connect information, people, systems, and devices through software. Integrated across the Microsoft platform, .NET technology provides the ability to quickly build, deploy, manage, and use connected, security-enhanced solutions with Web services. .NET-connected solutions enable businesses to integrate their systems more rapidly and in a more agile manner and help they realize the promise of information anytime, anywhere, on any device.”

THE .NET ARCHITECTURE Microsoft .NET consists of the following major components: 

Common Language Specification (CLS)

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Framework Class Library (FCL)

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Common Language Runtime (CLR)

THE .NET SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT

If you have the necessary bandwidth to download over 130 MB, you might

consider

downloading the full

Microsoft

.NET

Software

Development Kit (SDK). We fully recommend getting the SDK for learning more about .NET and for the documentation, samples, and tools included. At the base of the diagram in gray is the operating system, which technically can be any platform but typically is Microsoft Windows 2000 or greater, accessed through the Win32 API (Application Programming Interface).

Benefits of .NET

.NET provides the best platform available today for delivering Windows software. .NET helps make software better, faster, cheaper, and more secure. .NET is not the only solution for developing Web softwareJava on Linux is a serious alternative. But on the Windows desktop, .NET rules.

For developers, .NET provides an integrated set of tools for building Web software and services and Windows desktop applications. .NET supports

multiple

programming

languages

and

Service

Oriented

Architectures (SOA).For end-users, .NET results in software that’s more reliable and secure and works on multiple devices including laptops, Smart phones and Pocket PCs.

ADVANTAGES OF VB.NET 1. Managed code execution that runs under the common language runtime robust stable and secure application. 2. Vb.net is totally object oriented programming language. 3. The .net framework comes with ADO .net 4. Vb.net uses XML to transfer data between the various layers in the DNA architecture. 5. Error handling has changed in Vb.net. A new try catch finally blocks has been introduced. 6. Security has become more robust in vb.net.

SQL SERVER SQL was invented and developed by IBM in early 1970’s SQL stands for Strutted Query Language. In order to communicate with the database.

Web application or Client Server Application or Desktop Application we need to store data which can be retrieved or can be accessed whenever we require. SQL server is a Back End Tool. SQL stands for Structure Query Language. It is a powerful database. SQL server was developed by MICROSOFT corporation. The SQL server is used to manipulate large amount of information.

EX: Banking section, School, University, Ticket Booking center, Share marketing.

It is a high performance scalable distribute. Relation database management system that addresses to the needs of Client/Server computing. Microsoft SQL server enhances the performance Reliability and Scalability provide. Microsoft SQL server enhances the performance Reliability and Scalability provided by Earlier Relax SQL Server by Marketing process of developing Application, Managing system and Replicating Data Easier than Even.

SQL Supports the following categories of commands

1. Data definition language-creates, alter, and drop commands.

2. Data manipulation language-inserts, commit, save point and rollback commands. 3. Transaction control language-commit save point and rollback commands. 4. Data control language-grants and revokes commands. ADVANTAGES OF SQL Non procedural language, because more than one record can be accessed rather than one record at a time. It is the common language for all relational databases. In other words it is portable and requires very few modifications so that it can work on other databases. Very simple commands for querying, inserting, deleting, and modifying data and objects. Microsoft SQL server is a Structured Query Language (SQL) based, client\server relational database. Each of the terms describes a fundamental part of the architecture of SQL Server.

CHAPTER - 3 SYSTEM ANALYSIS 3.1 EXISTING SYSTEM Hospital pharmacy supervision is to ensure that medicines are accessed and used safely by patients and professionals both within the environments of a hospital and beyond. Pharmacy involves information processing, which means retrieving information from one file and using it to compare, update, or display information from another file. The pharmacist could play an essential role in providing accurate data for managing patient care. Information systems are now necessary to help pharmacists to perform their expanding list of daily tasks efficiently. DISADVANTAGES  chances of errors and data processing time  Timely Due to manual process, required more time to complete user requirement  It will increase updating is complicated.  Security of data were not maintain 3.2 PROPOSED SYSTEM Hospital pharmacy supervision is to ensure that medicines are accessed and used safely by patients and professionals both within the environments of a hospital and beyond. Pharmacy involves information processing, which means retrieving information from one file and using it to compare, update, or display information from another file. The pharmacist could play an essential role in providing accurate data for managing patient care. Information systems are now necessary to help pharmacists to perform their expanding list of daily tasks efficiently. The

pharmacy information system collects, stores and manages information related to drugs and supervises the use of drugs in line with patient care. The pharmacy information system can rely on management information system to track and dispense drugs to hospitals and health care organizations. Pharmacy information systems are also among the most widely used clinical information systems today. ADVANTAGES 

Accuracy It

is

one

of

the

features

of

computer

that medical store

management system project report it provides accuracy result. It is often said, “Man does mistakes but machines never”. When a man works there seems numbers of errors and mistakes in performing calculation and other things, while it is not in case with computers. 

Security The security is maintained vary comfortably in computers. Secretes

are not

disclosed off, as there are password settings in the

computers. So the firm can get the benefit of non-disclosure of its secrets

to the outsider competitors as well as other non-authorized

persons. 

Time saving The

computerized system is time saving.

On

an

immediate

inquiry, the operator or any authorized person has to just click some switches and get the information in few seconds.

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Perform Repetitive Task Very Well It is said that medical store management system project report

computer never tires. I do the repetitive task very well as it never feels laziness. Performance of repetitive task by a man is not well Performed, as main tires very quickly and feels lazy. It is not in the case with computer. So, proposed system is beneficial than Old one. 

Low cost The computer need not change year as it happens in case of

registers. In register system clerk , employees and also managers are needed to fulfill the management activity while in computer system the two persons are enough for all the work. So in proposed system the two persons and expenses of registers are saved annually. 

Easy Maintenance The maintenance of the computer is not tough job as compared

to the registers, as it may not be lost or damaged. So there is only soft or easy maintenance needed with computers. 

Easy Modification In

case of any change in data stored , the modification

or

editing can be done very easily and clearly trough computers, but that medical shop management system project report is not possible with registers. 

Attractive and Status Computer

creates

different kind of impression in mind of

computer or any other person .

computer tends to increase in

reputation/status of the firm . whenever party required any information

the units has just to print to out clicking some switches . so with the help of computers , promoters can increase their profit . Hence , with these merits , it would be very unwise and reckless to manage the organization through the system of book keeping . as it is said that medical store management system project report prevention is better than cure , it would be very fine and intelligent

decision

management.

to

have

computer

application

system

in

CHAPTER - 4 SYSTEM DESIGN 4.1DATA FLOW DIAGRAM

LEVEL 0

Admin Details Data Flow Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

E-R DIAGRAM

Medical Store D. Name

Dealer

D. Code

M

Supplies

Item. Code

Item .Code

M M

D.Add

Product

Sales

M C.Code

C.Name

Item . Name Price

C.City Purchase Bill 1

Customer

M

C.Ph.No

Sales items

1 Owner

1

CHAPTER - 6 SYSTEM TESTING AND IMPLEMENTATION Software testing is a critical element of software quality assurance and represents the ultimate review of specification, design and coding. In fact, testing is the one step in the software engineering process that could be viewed as destructive rather than constructive. A strategy for software testing integrates software test case design methods into a well-planned series of steps that result in the successful construction of software. Testing is the set of activities that can be planned in advance and conducted systematically. The underlying motivation of program testing is to affirm software quality with methods that can economically and effectively apply to both strategic to both large and small-scale systems. STRATEGIC APPROACH TO SOFTWARE TESTING The software engineering process can be viewed as a spiral. Initially system engineering defines the role of software and leads to software requirement analysis where the information domain, functions, behavior, performance, constraints and validation criteria for software are established. Moving inward along the spiral, we come to design and finally to coding. To develop computer software we spiral in along streamlines that decrease the level of abstraction on each turn. A strategy for software testing may also be viewed in the context of the spiral. Unit testing begins at the vertex of the spiral and concentrates on each unit of the software as implemented in source code. Testing progress by moving outward along the spiral to integration testing, where the focus is on the design and the construction of the software architecture. Talking

another turn on outward on the spiral we encounter validation testing where requirements established as part of software requirements analysis are validated against the software that has been constructed. Finally we arrive at system testing, where the software and other system elements are tested as a whole.

UNIT TESTING Unit testing focuses verification effort on the smallest unit of software design, the module. The unit testing we have is white box oriented and some modules the steps are conducted in parallel. 1. WHITE BOX TESTING This type of testing ensures that 

All independent paths have been exercised at least once

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All logical decisions have been exercised on their true and false sides

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All loops are executed at their boundaries and within their operational

bounds 

All internal data structures have been exercised to assure their validity. To follow the concept of white box testing we have tested each form

.we have created independently to verify that Data flow is correct, All conditions are exercised to check their validity, All loops are executed on their boundaries. 2. BASIC PATH TESTING Established technique of flow graph with Cyclometric complexity was used to derive test cases for all the functions. The main steps in deriving test cases were: Use the design of the code and draw correspondent flow graph. Determine the Cyclometric complexity of resultant flow graph, using formula: V(G)=E-N+2 or V (G) =P+1 or

V (G) =Number of Regions Where V (G) is Cyclometric complexity, E is the number of edges, N is the number of flow graph nodes, P is the number of predicate nodes. 3. CONDITIONAL TESTING In this part of the testing each of the conditions were tested to both true and false aspects. And all the resulting paths were tested. So that each path that may be generate on particular condition is traced to uncover any possible errors. 4. DATA FLOW TESTING This type of testing selects the path of the program according to the location of definition and use of variables. This kind of testing was used only when some local variable were declared. The definition-use chain method was used in this type of testing. These were particularly useful in nested statements. INTEGRATION TESTING Integration testing is a systematic technique for constructing tests to uncover error associated within the interface. In the project, all the modules are combined and then the entire programmer is tested as a whole. In the integration-testing step, all the error uncovered is corrected for the next testing steps.

5.2 SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION The Implementation Plan describes how the information system will be deployed, installed and transitioned into an operational system. The plan contains an overview of the system, a brief description of the major tasks involved in the implementation, the overall resources needed to support the implementation effort (such as hardware, software. facilities, materials,

and

requirements.

personnel),

and

any

site-specific

implementation

The plan is developed during the Design Phase and is

updated during the Development Phase; the final version is provided in the Integration and Test Phase and is used for guidance during the Implementation Phase. 5.3 SYSTEM MAINTENANCE Every system has to perform Maintenance at some point or another. Whether it’s just to upgrade a portion of the system or because of some problem with the system, it’s an inevitable fact of operating system. And in many cases, maintenance requires taking your system for at least a few minutes.

CHAPTER - 6 CONCLUSION

It has been a great pleasure for me to work on this exciting and challenging project. This project proved good for me as it provided practical knowledge of programming in VB.NET and MYSQL Server, and also about all handling procedure related with “E-Pharmacy Management System”. It also provides knowledge about the latest technology used in developing web enabled application and client server technology that will be great demand in future. This will provide better opportunities and guidance in future in developing projects independently.

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