🖥️ CodeIndexHub — Desktop Application

C# WPF desktop application that extracts source code, feeding structured tokens into a vector database pipeline for intelligent documentation indexing.

This desktop app is the ingestion layer of the CodeIndex Hub platform. Developers point it at a codebase, and it handles extraction, and submission to the API, so that functions and classes become searchable via the web app.

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🧩 Part of the CodeIndex Hub Ecosystem

Component	Tech	Role
Desktop App ← you are here	C# WPF	Extracts source code
Web App	Astro + React	Displays documentation, handles search
API	Python Flask	Manages vector storage, Tokenisation and search queries

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✨ Features

• 📂 Project Import — Point the app at any local codebase directory
• 🔬 Code Extraction — Parses source files and isolates function definitions, signatures, and metadata
• 📡 API Submission — Sends data to the CodeIndex Hub API for vector storage
• 🗂️ Multi-language Support (planned) — Initially targeting C# and Python, with expansion planned

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• C# / .NET — Core application logic
• WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) — Desktop UI framework
• Python AST — Code parsing and extraction
• HttpClient — Communicates with the CodeIndex Hub API

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🚀 Getting Started

Prerequisites

• Windows 10 or later
• .NET 8 SDK or later
• CodeIndexHub API running locally

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📁 Project Structure

/
├── CodeIndex.App/         # WPF application (UI, ViewModels)
│   ├── Views/              # XAML pages and windows
│   ├── ViewModels/         # MVVM ViewModels
│   └── App.xaml
├── CodeIndex.Core/        # Business logic
│   ├── Extraction/         # Code parsing & function extraction
│   └── ApiClient/          # HTTP client for API communication
├── CodeIndex.Tests/       # Unit tests
└── CodeIndex.sln

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🔄 How It Works

Local Codebase
      ↓
  File Scanner         Discovers .cs (and other) source files
      ↓
Code Extractor         Parses functions, signatures, docstrings, metadata
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  API Client           POSTs tokens to CodeIndex API
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  Vector DB            Stored and indexed for semantic search

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🔗 Related Repositories

• FProject-Web — Web App both frontend and backend

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📄 Licence

This project is part of a university dissertation. All rights reserved.

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