Computer Store Management System

A C++ console application for managing a small computer store's employee and inventory records. The project was built as an academic Object-Oriented Programming / Data Structures assignment and demonstrates class-based modeling, menu-driven workflows, file persistence, and CSV import/export.

Features

• Head-manager login flow with a simple PIN gate
• Add and update employee records
• Add and update inventory items
• Search employee and inventory data
• Display all store records from the console
• Persist records to a binary file when the program exits
• Import and export records using CSV-style files

Project Structure

.
├── Computer Store.sln
├── Computer Store.vcxproj
├── Computer Store.vcxproj.filters
├── Main.cpp
├── items.csv
└── README.md

Build

This project uses Microsoft Visual Studio C++ project files and calls MSVC-specific functions such as strncpy_s.

Open Computer Store.sln in Visual Studio 2022 and build the solution, or run from a Visual Studio Developer PowerShell:

msbuild "Computer Store.sln" /p:Configuration=Release /p:Platform=x64

Run

After building, run the executable from the build output directory:

.\x64\Release\"Computer Store.exe"

The manager PIN shown by the program is:

1111

Help mode:

.\x64\Release\"Computer Store.exe" help

Export records:

.\x64\Release\"Computer Store.exe" export items.csv

Import records:

.\x64\Release\"Computer Store.exe" import items.csv

Notes

• Records.bin is generated at runtime and is intentionally ignored by Git.
• items.csv is included as sample import/export data.
• Build outputs, Visual Studio cache files, archives, and local assignment documents are excluded from the repository.