This is a fork of MiniBug for VS2019 and .NET 4.8.
For a multi-user version with PostgreSQL database see: MaxiBug.
Some of the changes:
- Removed missing MiniBug_TemporaryKey.pfx and signing from project
- Default fontsize set to 10
- Scale forms after changing fontsize in settings
- Load project on startup if only one project exists
- Optionally attach an image to an issue
- Create single exe using Fody.Costura
- Show a ModernUI.Charting pie chart after loading a project
- Copy issue and image to Clipboard
- Search issue
- Create PDF from issue
MiniBug is a simple issue tracker and to-do list, it is a Windows desktop single-user application.
MiniBug does not use a database to store data: instead the application stores each project in a .json file. This means that if you need to work on projects, in different computers, you can share a MiniBug project between computers, by putting the .json file in something like Dropbox.
Attached images are stored with their file name only, it is recommended to keep them in the same folder as the application. Preferably keep images in a subfolder "Images", this way all data can be copied easily to another location.
When using the "Copy to clipboard" button, text and images can be pasted into office applications by using "Paste special".
- Issues: create, edit, delete, clone
- Tasks: create, edit, delete, clone
- Show/hide/sort columns
- Some user defined settings
- Export issues and tasks to CSV format
You can try a small sample project, with bugs and tasks copied from some applications' public bug trackers (Inkscape, Firefox, MariaDB and Kodi).
Download the file MiniBug Sample Project.json and open it in MiniBug.
MiniBug v2.5.5 compiled with .NET 4.8 versus .NET 6.0. A comparison of speed differences loading a test project of 4000 issues on a Windows 10 PC with an SSD gave the following results:
| Version | Load project | Reload project |
|---|---|---|
| .NET 4.8 / VS2019 | 1,27 s | 1,78 s |
| .NET 6.0 / VS2022 | 1,06 s | 1,37 s |
| .NET 4.8 exe | 1,08 s | 2,23 s |
| .NET 6.0 exe | 0,86 s | 1,74 s |
As the .NET 6.0 speed improvement is not very significant, and the executable is much bigger and not as neatly packed into a single exe, I decided to not publish this version on GitHub for the time being. Also the .NET 6.0 version is not cross-platform, it is purely a Winforms application, so that is no argument to port it either.
- Microsoft Windows 7 or higher
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4.8
First you need to create a new project (File > New Project), define a project name and choose a location to save it:
Next you can start adding issues and tasks:
- issues are bugs/problems
- tasks are items in a to-do list
An image can be dragged & dropped on the Issue form.
The user can modify some settings (File > Settings) in order to customize the look and feel of the application:
Settings in action:
You can sort the grid rows in two ways:
- by clicking on a column header:
- by using the Configure Columns window:
Using the second method you can sort by up to two columns and with different criteria (ascending or descending).
You can show/hide any column (except the ID column, which is always visible), using the Configure Columns window:
You can export a project's issues and tasks to CSV (comma separated values) files:
Because issues and tasks have a slightly different structure, they are exported to separate files. If a project only has issues or tasks, only one file will be generated:
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.
This project uses the following libraries:
- Json.NET: for reading/writing to .json files
- CsvHelper: for exporting to CSV
- Pie chart control: by Angelo Cresta
- PdfFileWriter library: by Uzi Granot
- Fody.Costura: for creating a single exe