Lab for Week 1 - Step by Step

Very Busy (VB) Mail Order

Start Visual Basic and Open a New Standard .EXE

Do the housekeeping required to setup your project. This includes:

• Naming the Project
• Naming the Form
• Changing the Form Caption
• Saving the Project

• Creating a New Project Directory
• Saving the Form
• Saving the Project File

Refer to the Guidelines for this procedure and for the required naming conventions.

Reviewing the problem reveals that the user interface will need 7 labels and 6 command buttons.

	Command Buttons cmdCR Customer Relations cmdMarket Marketing cmdOP Order Processing cmdShipping Shipping cmdPrint Print cmdExit Exit Labels lblDept lblContact lblPhone 4 Labels keep the default names as they will not be referenced by the program

The Event Handlers for the 4 Department Command Buttons will assign values to the Caption Property of  the 3 labels as follows:

lblDept.Caption = "Customer Relations"
lblContact.Caption = "Tricia Mills"
lblPhone.Caption = "500-1111"

The Event Handler the Print button will be coded as using the PrintForm method of the form. In the Event Handler type:

frmMain.         That's "frmMain dot"

and let the "Auto Fill In" feature assist you in building the instruction.

Please comment out this instruction during the lab. Chaos will reign if everyone sends a print of their form to the printer during the lab session. You can do this on your own, or later in lab if you want to see this work. Trust Me, it will!

The Exit Command button will "End" the program as in the first example

Test the program and please let me know when you have completed the wor. You can demo it for me and if all works as advertised, I will check you off as done.

A couple of things to double check:

• Close VB
• Use Windows Explorer to MOVE the project folder to a new location
• Open the project from the new location
• Everything OK?
  If not, make sure you review the Save Procedure

This completes the first lab

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