Create Wizards For Program?
Jan 9, 2007i was just wondering if I create wizards for my program? like to accept input from user then process them and stuff.
View 6 Repliesi was just wondering if I create wizards for my program? like to accept input from user then process them and stuff.
View 6 RepliesI have been a programmer for almost 14 years and have worked in SQL, VB, VBA and MS Access. I am making the transition to VB 2008 and as you can imagine, it is frustrating. One of the new things to be in VB2008 is working with data. They have made it easy to setup datasets and output data to a form. In VB6, I never used the GUI data tools, I always custom programmed recordsets and wrote loops to output the data. Then, I wrote my own code to update, insert or delete the data. With VB 2008 I dont have to do this anymore, but is it a better practice to hand code than rely on wizards.
I also noticed I don�t have as much control over the data with using the wizards, for example. There is 1 insert statement defined for a table adapter. Lets say I wanted to perform a slightly different insert based on a condition. I can�t do that anymore right?
I want to ask if its better to make datasets with wizards or programatically. Im studing with a teacher that works programatically ... but its a lot of coding. so, retrieving data is faster when you write code or is the same using wizards on datasources?? when you use datasource wizard , it open and close conections automatically?
View 4 RepliesI have written this code implemeting MVC design pattern.... for simplcity... i have create Model with BLL having a two classes Employee and Designation and i have created the DAL using the Dataset designer tool....thus i've implemted all relationship bewteen the two tables Empoyee and Designation connected to each toher using field EmpIndex.
In MVC design pattern i should return objects to the controller (in this case i used only the view- win form) becuase of my Designer created DAL i cannot return objects of Employee and Designation to the View... this is becuase in BLL: the following method
Code: public TestMVCWithDataset.TestDataSet.tblEmployeesDataTable SearchByIndex(int iEmpIndex) { try { empAdapter.Fill(dtEmployees, iEmpIndex); return dtEmployees; } catch { throw new Exception("Employee not found!"); } }
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Coming form too many years of VB6 I have a natural inclination to write my own data access code, etc. rather than using database wizard, etc. Same goes for using simple databinding to recordset rather than managing object collections and tying those to controls
I am finally moving to VB.NET and find myself on a solo project without any team on which to lean, so I have a couple related questions as I try to get my head around the transition. The project is basically a line of business app with a SQL Server back end.
1. Are the data designers/wizards so good now that rolling your own is no longer worth while?
2. Is the data-binding now fast, flexible, and reliable?
3. Can you recommend a good book or robust on-line tutorial that covers this sort of programming? 2008 or 2010 preferred.
I've decided to build wizard style library to handle many wizards and make it more simple to work with. The difficulty is that next step window changes depending on user selection on current form with a lot of controls in each of them. After long time thinking I think best would be to recreate similar to TabControl and TabPage controls and instead tabs would be a in-built command Next, Previous and Finish buttons as default in TabPage control. I've tried something to create similar but with no success yet.
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Hello I want to create a windows form application program that can create games something like Gamemaker or Klik & Play (butt less advanced) with D&D "Drag and Drop" events and actions.
View 7 RepliesTo create a program that asks for input then uses an else statement to create a handling fee balance.
Input: sales record - first name, last name, purchase amount, balance before purchase
Output: report - full name, old balance, purchase amount, handling fee, new balance
Definitions: handling fee is 5% of the old balance if the old balance is less than $1000.00 else it is 2% new balance = old balance + purchase + handling fee
Processing:
Ask for and receive sales information
Calculate new balance
Print output report
End the program when a purchase amount of 9999.99 is entered
I have a project to do for one of my classes that i need help on. Its and extra credit so im left on my own. Project Create a program to allow a student to create there own schedule. what i am trying to do is create a checkedlistbox for the student to check classes they are taking, and need something else to pop up or to show in another box or listbox the classes they can take for the next quarter. I know it has to do with if then statements but i dont know how to write basically:"if (class is checked in checkedlistbox) then ( these are the classes you can take)".
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View 20 RepliesI am very very new to VB.NET and would like to ask a simple question. I want to create a vb.net program and allow visitors to a website to download this program. However, I prefer not to have visitors download a zip folder. I would like to have a program that just gives a prompt to save in a selected folder, once the saved file is selected it prompts the person to download, and then when finished prompts the person to run the program. The reason is twofold:
1. I don't like the extra step involved with unzipping the file. and 2. I don't like the visitors having to look for the "main" file program within the new downloaded folder. So is there any way to have just one file for others to download without having it in a zip folder?
I'm trying to create a program that installs required .dll's for a program due to a clean install..What I need to do is Get a value in the registry and use it for the program files path.. but I've noticed some pc's don't have the same configuration because of the version the user is using. Anyway This is what I have so far:[code].....
What I'm trying to do is find a registry key called "SoftInstallPath", if found I need the end of the path to goto the new directory(new_dll) not the old one (dll).. and if "SoftInstallPath" cannot be found.. I need it to find "ProgInstallPath" and use it instead and do the same thing.By the way I'm using Visual Studio Professional 2008 on a Vista x86 machine.Also error I keep getting is: Warning 10 Function 'FixPath' doesn't return a value on all code paths. A null reference exception could occur at run time when the result is used.
Anyone ever try and create a program in visual basic that interfaced with an USB device? For example say I want to build a clock but I want to have the software to control this through usb. I want to write the clock setting program that tells the clock what to set for time and date and things like that.
View 3 RepliesI want to create a program that will auto update another program i have created. I want (this program) to check for updates (from a txt file that i wil have in the first line the previous version and in the second line the present version) and if there will be a new version then start downloading and the progress bar will show the progress. How can i do this?
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Lets say I have a program that has a textbox and a button. I want the button to create another program that will show a messagebox, inside the messagebox will be the textbox from the 1st program. How would I do this?
View 7 RepliesHow do i create a ADO.net using VB.net
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View 4 RepliesCurrently, one of our assignment for Physics are to create a program that can calculate series, parallel and combined circuit, with any number of capacitance. We are using Visual Basic.
1. How to make that when we click the 'Enter Capacitance', a pop up show and tell us to enter number of capacitance, or to enter value for a number of capacitance?
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I am having trouble figuring out how to create a combsort program in visual basic. I want to sort the data with the combsort method but I my program only compares each cell to the gap cell but doesnt compare the rest to each other.
How to create a dll file using Visual Basic.net ? I'm using MS Visual Studio 2008.
View 9 RepliesDoes anybody know how to create a form within visal basic 8
on the top of the form you have colums and on the left side of the form you have rows with the time
How do i create a listbox in vb8?
View 4 RepliesI need to know how to create a program like MediaPlayer from scratch .Does Directshow do this ??? And if yes , what the steps I should follow to have full control at this side of programming ( Is there any SDK I should download )?I'm using VisualBasic 2008 Pro.
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This maybe a stupid question, but its got me exasperated. How do I declare a new array inline? Is this possible? I've tried all of the following and they all don't work.[code]...
In VB.net, is it possible to create a pause in a while loop, wait for user input (for example, hit the STOP button, if desired), and if no input within say... a second, continue on?[code]...
View 1 RepliesI wanted to create a pdf file and write some repots in that using vb.net. This shld be created on click of a button. i have adobe reader in my machine. Is that enough to create a pdf file using vb.net? please help how to do this programming.
View 2 RepliesI have got a lot of documents that gets automated in Word format which is great, but also I would like to be able to create and save documents in pdf format.
I understand there is software for converting and creating pdf documents but I want to know if I would be able to program any simple documents for a start myself in pdf format.
Im trying to create a playlist for my program (which ive done),ive also got it to rename the items (just to show songname.mp3),my problem is:
when the person Double-Clicks on an item in the listbox it wont play it because it plays the value of the selected item. On how to rename it to only the songname but still be able to play it?
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