8. Appointment Scheduler
An appointment scheduler manages customers, appointments, services, staff, availability, and appointment status.
Why employers care
Employers care because scheduling apps prove you can think through dates, conflicts, calendars, and user-friendly workflows.
Main build outline
- Create customer, staff, service, appointment, and appointment status records.
- Add calendar-style list views by day, week, staff member, or service.
- Validate that appointments do not overlap for the same staff member.
- Add statuses for scheduled, confirmed, canceled, completed, and no-show.
- Add filters for today's appointments, upcoming appointments, and canceled appointments.
Modern .NET stack
- Blazor Server or ASP.NET Core MVC/Razor Pages for the web UI.
- C# services for validation, workflow rules, and business logic.
- Entity Framework Core with SQL Server locally, then SmarterASP SQL Server or Azure SQL.
- SmarterASP for practical hosting, with Azure App Service or AWS as cloud stretch paths.
- Optional GitHub Actions, Docker, dashboard reporting, and small AI helper features.
Portfolio proof
- README with the business problem, screenshots, setup steps, and tech stack.
- Database schema or diagram that explains the main tables and relationships.
- Screenshots of list, detail, create/edit, search, filtering, and status workflows.
- Small commit history showing steady feature work and clean fixes.
- Secret-safety note confirming connection strings and API keys are not committed.