A full-featured personal finance tracking web application built with ASP.NET Core MVC and Microsoft SQL Server. Users can manage their income and expenses, filter and sort transactions, and view a comprehensive monthly financial summary — all behind a secure authentication system.

• Authentication — Register, Login, and Logout using ASP.NET Core Identity
• Transaction Management — Full CRUD for income and expense transactions
• Filtering — Filter by category, type (income/expense), date range, and keyword/description search
• Sorting — Sort transactions by price or date (ascending/descending)
• Monthly Summary — Filter by month to view:
  • ✅ Total Income
  • ❌ Total Expenses
  • 📊 Net Balance
• Clean Architecture — Repository pattern, Service layer, DTOs, ViewModels, and AutoMapper

📁 FinanceTrackerApp/
├── 📁 Areas/
├── 📁 Controllers/
├── 📁 Data/
├── 📁 DTOs/
├── 📁 Helpers/
├── 📁 Interfaces/
├── 📁 Mappings/
├── 📁 Migrations/
├── 📁 Models/
├── 📁 Properties/
├── 📁 Repositories/
├── 📁 Services/
├── 📁 ViewModels/
├── 📁 Views/
├── 📁 wwwroot/
├── 📄 appsettings.json
├── 📄 Program.cs
└── 📄 ScaffoldingReadMe.txt

• .NET SDK
• Microsoft SQL Server
• SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/finance-tracker-app.git
   cd finance-tracker-app

2. Configure the database connection

   Add your connection string via User Secrets (recommended):

   dotnet user-secrets init
   dotnet user-secrets set "ConnectionStrings:DefaultConnection" "Server=YOUR_SERVER;Database=FinanceTrackerDB;Trusted_Connection=True;"

Or update appsettings.json directly (do not commit real credentials).

3. Apply migrations

   dotnet ef database update

4. Run the app

   dotnet run

5. Open your browser at https://localhost:5001