About North State Software

North State Software is dedicated to the principle that good software starts with a good design, and good designs start with a picture—a picture on the back of an envelope, on your whiteboard, on your laptop, on whatever you have handy. Time spent on the design phase is the most important part of a software engineer’s job. Our mission is to turn your software design into working code as quickly and easily as possible, so you can spend more time on your designs and less time worrying about the implementation, while maintaining flexibility and reusability in your code.

Founded in 2004 by veteran control systems engineers, Mark Uebel and James Rivenbark, North State’s flagship product, the North State Framework, provides a simple but elegant mapping between UML State Machine diagram elements and a robust set of C# .Net classes. Class inheritance and composition allow for a high degree of reuse, extensibility, and maintainability, while utility classes for threading, timers, and tracing speed the coding effort.

Working in the control systems environment, Mark and James encountered on a daily basis the limitations of traditional design methodologies and code generators. After adopting UML State Machines as their design methodology of choice, Mark and James recognized the need for a truly object oriented class framework that would simplify the process of coding their state machines, while allowing for greater extensibility and maintainability over time. With North State Framework, coding is a turnkey operation, freeing engineers to focus on designing robust architectures and business logic.

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