Questions about hiring .NET developer

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So we have a fairly small internal company application written in PHP,
it interacts with a MySQL DB and all it really does is create new
orders, edit existing orders, and prints reports based on different
variables in data. I don't know why this project has turned into such
a huge ordeal, but every developer we've hired so far to take care of
this project has come up short on the deadlines they themselves have
put forth. The last guy we hired came in and started rewriting the
PHP site in .NET and we have since had to let him go.

Now, we aren't a huge company, we have 35 employees total and maybe 10
of which use the company intranet simultaneously, so it's not really
in need of any crazy layers yet. I've been interviewing new
developers for this, and they all seem to say "Oh this is a really
small project", but I'm just worried (mainly for the sake of my job)
about hiring another guy that says that then wont be able to finish
it. I need to know if there's anyway to get a good estimate of time
on how long it should take to finish the almost complete new .NET
intranet site and how to pick out a guy that isn't going to screw us
over again (is all I have to go by references and qualifications?).

Also, any tips on managing a developer would be appreciated.

.



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