This project is not currently intended for general use - it is made public under an MIT license to share with friends, colleagues and anyone who finds the code interesting or useful.

Pointless Waymarks CMS is a .NET Core 5 Windows WPF GUI for generating a static website based on database information and a settings file. It is not intended as an 'all purpose static site generation solution' and only supports the creation of a limited set of content types with a focus on long-lasting free content about landscape, place, photography, nature, history...

Pointless Waymarks is generated with the Pointless Waymarks CMS and is a good example of the output and intent. The inspiration for this code is the deep joy that creating content about the landscape (in the broadest sense) has added to my life. The direction of the project is guided by my appreciation of authentic content and informed by many years spent learning the incredible value of being able to create personal content with love and dedication to the subject matter without needing to meet any specific SEO/first page search result/engagement/advertising/tracking goals (creating personal content has brought significant happiness to my life, first page search results have not...).

Details behind this software:

• A static site because it is currently one of the lowest cost, lowest maintenance, most durable ways to put content online.
• Database driven to offer flexibility in creating and updating content and to potentially support the generation of multiple output formats.
• Custom software rather than a generic cms/web framework so that the limited content types I want to create can be specifically and well supported - with a limited scope I believe that creating this project will be a better overall approach than trying to customize existing software.
• Desktop creation software because it is an excellent way to create zero cost software. WPF because I largely work in Windows, it is my favorite Windows GUI technology atm and because the experimentation/learning/coding I do here flows back into my day job where I help to create and maintain an Inventory Management and Reporting system that has a WPF Front End.
• A focus on 'content' with a simple and beautiful presentation

Todo Lists, Idea Lists and a Development Log are found in a DevNotes.md file that is versioned along with the code.

If you have questions or comments please contact me at PointlessWaymarks@gmail.com

Launch screen with quick and easy options to launch recent projects or create a new project.

Each Content Type has a list interface - these are all similar with sorting, filtering and access to Excel Export/Import. The ability to export to Excel, edit and import the changes is provided for all content types and most fields - many updates are more easily made in the program but Excel provides a powerful interface for complicated/bulk edits.

The Photo List items have buttons to quickly find other photos based on details such as Camera Make, Lens, Aperture, Shutter Speed, etc. Not shown but available in the Photo List under the Reports menu are reports on photos with potential problems such as No Tags or Blank License and an option to export all of a photo's 'raw' metadata to an html file. From the Photo List you can import photos in bulk - where possible the program will use the Photo's Metadata to generate an entry and in many cases can create and save Photo Content without any additional data entry.

The content editors are intended to be simple, helpful and functional. Change and validation indicators, previews and help with common editing actions are provided.

Tags are a valuable way to search and categorize content and the Tag Screen provides search and display of Tags and Content. Rather than try to provide in-editor actions for bulk edits the interface relies on the Excel export/import process - while it is occasionally cumbersome using Excel to bulk edit tags the advantage is that you are not limited in what you can do...

Content is the focus of the project and admin/widget/header/menu options are kept as minimal as possible - but some options are still needed such as a very simple menu editor Pointless Waymarks.

Because this is a static site deploying is simply writing/syncing content from the generated local site and can be done with many existing tools. The program tracks written files to help in cases where you want to simply push the latest files with a script or generate a list to submit to another program. The user interface includes a screen where you can filter, sort, lightly modify and export data. By default the interface helps you generate a PowerShell script file of Amazon AWS Cli S3 cp statements.

I am incredibly grateful to the all the people and companies who have created the software that allows me to create projects like Pointless Waymarks CMS. Below is a mostly-up-to-date-and-largely-comprehensive list of tools/packages/libraries/... that I am using for this project:

Tools:

• Visual Studio IDE, .NET Core (Linux, macOS, and Windows)
• ReSharper: The Visual Studio Extension for .NET Developers by JetBrains
• LINQPad - The .NET Programmer's Playground
• DB Browser for SQLite
• RegexBuddy: Learn, Create, Understand, Test, Use and Save Regular Expression
• Material Design Icons

Packages/Libraries/Services:

• dotnet/core: Home repository for .NET Core, dotnet/efcore: EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations. and various other Microsoft Technologies
• SQLite
• mokacao/PhotoSauce: MagicScaler high-performance, high-quality image processing pipeline for .NET - Fast high quality Image Resizing. Ms-Pl.
• drewnoakes/metadata-extractor-dotnet: Extracts Exif, IPTC, XMP, ICC and other metadata from image, video and audio files - Used to read the metadata in Photographs - there are a number of ways to get this data but it is nice to have a single go to library to work with that already handles a number of the (many...) issues. Apache License, Version 2.0.
• AngleSharp - Home - AngleSharp/AngleSharp: The ultimate angle brackets parser library parsing HTML5, MathML, SVG and CSS to construct a DOM based on the official W3C specifications. - Mainly used for parsing web pages when creating links. MIT License.
• fluentmigrator/fluentmigrator: Fluent migrations framework for .NET - documentation](https://fluentmigrator.github.io/)
• HtmlTags/htmltags: Simple object model for generating HTML - Currently this project uses a combination of T4 templates and tags built by this library to produce HTML. Apache License, Version 2.0.
• anakic/Jot: Jot is a library for persisting and applying .NET application state. - Used to save application state most prominently main window position.
• lunet-io/markdig: A fast, powerful, CommonMark compliant, extensible Markdown processor for .NET and Kryptos-FR/markdig.wpf: A WPF library for lunet-io/markdig https://github.com/lunet-io/markdig - Used to process Commonmark Markdown both inside the application and for HTML generation. BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License and MIT License.
• thomasgalliker/ObjectDumper: ObjectDumper is a utility which aims to serialize C# objects to string for debugging and logging purposes. - A quick way to convert objects to human readable strings/formats. Apache License, Version 2.0
• acemod13/ookii-dialogs-wpf: Common dialog classes for WPF applications - easy access to several nice dialogs. License of Ookii.Dialogs.Wpf.NETCore 2.1.0.
• omuleanu/ValueInjecter: convention based mapper - Quick mapping between objects without any setup needed. MIT License.
• micdenny/WpfScreenHelper: Porting of Windows Forms Screen helper for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF). It avoids dependencies on Windows Forms libraries when developing in WPF. - help with some details of keeping windows in visible screen space without referencing WinForms. MIT License.
• kzu/GitInfo: Git and SemVer Info from MSBuild, C# and VB - Git version information. MIT License.
• pinboard.net/LICENSE at master · shrayasr/pinboard.net - Easy to use wrapper for Pinboard - 'Social Bookmarking for Introverts'. MIT License.
• jamesmontemagno/mvvm-helpers: Collection of MVVM helper classes for any application. MIT License.
• shps951023/HtmlTableHelper: Mini C# IEnumerable object to HTML Table String Library - used for quick reporting output like the Photo Metadata Dump. MIT License.
• Pure - Used in the reporting output for simple styling. BSD and MIT Licenses.
• ClosedXML - A great way to read and write Excel Files - I have years of experience with this library and it is both excellent and well maintained. MIT License.
• CompareNETObjects - Comparison of object properties that stays quick/easy to use but has more options than you would be likely to create with custom reflection code and potentially more durability than hand coded comparisons. Ms-PL License.
• TinyIpc - Windows Desktop Inter-process Communication wrapped up into a super simple to use interface for C#. MIT License.
• SimpleScreenShotCapture and Capturing screenshots using C# and p/invoke- An example project and blog post with information on and code for capturing screen and window shots using native methods. Used this as the basis for a WPF/WpfScreenHelper version - the advantage over traditional WPF based window image methods is that XamlIsland type controls can be captured. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
• Open Topo Data - Provides an open and free Elevation API and offers both a public service and the code to host the service yourself (including scripts/information to get the needed source data) - GitHub: ajnisbet/opentopodata: Open alternative to the Google Elevation API! (Code) MIT License.
• Leaflet - a JavaScript library for interactive maps - On GitHub. BSD-2-Clause License.
• elmarquis/Leaflet.GestureHandling: Brings the basic functionality of Google Maps Gesture Handling into Leaflet. Prevents users from getting trapped on the map when scrolling a long page. MIT License.
• aws/aws-sdk-net: The official AWS SDK for .NET - For Amazon S3 file management. Apache License 2.0.
• NetTopologySuite/NetTopologySuite: A .NET GIS solution. NetTopologySuite License - Nuget Package listed as BSD-3-Clause.
• NetTopologySuite/NetTopologySuite.IO.GPX: GPX I/O for NetTopologySuite. BSD-3-Clause License.
• NetTopologySuite/NetTopologySuite.IO.GeoJSON: GeoJSON IO module for NTS.
• [punker76/gong-wpf-dragdrop: The GongSolutions.WPF.DragDrop library is a drag'n'drop framework for WPF](https://github.com/punker76/gong-wpf-dragdrop. BSD-3-Clause License.