Hello all! I'm the new guy and full disclaimer, I don't have a lot of experience with VB.NET. Fifteen or twenty years ago I used VB 6 frequently to develop some stand alone programs but I'm afraid I have lost any knowledge that I once had. At the time though, I wrote some relatively neat stuff. My biggest accomplishment was a program that worked in conjunction with a card reader (hardware) via RS232. It would read & write to the EEPROM on a satellite dish access card (back in the old DirecTV days when they used the "H" and then "HU" cards). I'm Canadian and I couldn't buy a subscription but I loved the service, so I simply opened the card up. There was a lot of reading involved in that project both here on the VB forums and in the satellite dish forums. I managed though, after a year, and I'm sure that with some hand holding and guidance I'll manage this project as well.
Anyway, I'm attempting to develop a simple little program to help me catalogue my rock collection. I've gone ahead and put together a GUI concept to get the look and feel that I'm after. My goal is to be able to write to a database based using a user's input through the provided text boxes, combo boxes, radio buttons and check boxes, ect. I would also like to be able to remove an "entry" and of course to search the database. I don't want the search to use all of the data fields when searching but rather have it limited to specific data points (highlighted in green on my screen shot attached below). The other data fields are just extra information in the format of long text (full sentences and paragraphs) which are likely too difficult to search. It really isn't an ambition of mine to search based on those fields anyway. The key search fields are highlighted as I mentioned.
As you can see, I have included a screen shot of the GUI. I would like to make the search function able to search by single criteria (green highlights on screenshot) or any number of green highlighted entries. I currently do not have a database nor do I know how to begin. My intention was to use a single Access (.mdb) database file however, SQL was suggested to me as well. Honestly, I don't know enough to know what the difference is.
I'm committed to seeing this project through to completion but as I've mentioned above, I'm quite green with this. I appreciate your patience with me.
So.......After viewing the screenshot and getting an idea of what I am trying to accomplish, how would you go about setting up and implementing the database? Where should I begin?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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Anyway, I'm attempting to develop a simple little program to help me catalogue my rock collection. I've gone ahead and put together a GUI concept to get the look and feel that I'm after. My goal is to be able to write to a database based using a user's input through the provided text boxes, combo boxes, radio buttons and check boxes, ect. I would also like to be able to remove an "entry" and of course to search the database. I don't want the search to use all of the data fields when searching but rather have it limited to specific data points (highlighted in green on my screen shot attached below). The other data fields are just extra information in the format of long text (full sentences and paragraphs) which are likely too difficult to search. It really isn't an ambition of mine to search based on those fields anyway. The key search fields are highlighted as I mentioned.
As you can see, I have included a screen shot of the GUI. I would like to make the search function able to search by single criteria (green highlights on screenshot) or any number of green highlighted entries. I currently do not have a database nor do I know how to begin. My intention was to use a single Access (.mdb) database file however, SQL was suggested to me as well. Honestly, I don't know enough to know what the difference is.
I'm committed to seeing this project through to completion but as I've mentioned above, I'm quite green with this. I appreciate your patience with me.
So.......After viewing the screenshot and getting an idea of what I am trying to accomplish, how would you go about setting up and implementing the database? Where should I begin?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!
