I Need Visual Studio.Net Direction Please!

[GitarJake]

Hello all,

I am somewhat experienced in creating Access forms and would like to learn
how to create applications, and convert my Access applications, in Visual
Studio .net.

Questions:

Where do I go for the most basic getting started info? The help files
return too much info for me right now and I get swamped. Specifically, I
want to click a button on my main form and open a popup form that contains a
listbox. In Access there's a wizard for this. No such luck in VS.net?

This must be very basic, but I can't find mention of it anywhere.

I would appreciate any and all pointers.

TIA,

Jake

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Jake,

The difference between creating applications between MS-Access and VS.Net is
that it is easier to create an application. In Access is predifined how
things are done. In VS.Net you do very much more and can influence almost
everything.

The backside of that is, that you have to do more yourself.

Howevever there are a lot of controls, which when you drag to to a form have
a lot inbuild features so it is not that hard as I wrote above. Another
thing to remember is that Access has a lot of very conservative (wanted by
the old MS-Access users) behaviour. Programs made by Visual Studio Net don't
have that old behaviour.

This means however that when there would be wizards, it would be so much
that you would get the same effect as with the help now. There is so much
that one of the first things using VS Net is to find what you need.

The application what you talking about means
Open a new application windowsform application in VSNet
Drag a listbox from the toolbox to your form
Right click the listbox and choose collection in the property list.
Fill that collection
Run (debug your program)

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[Someone]

Check out this site:

http://samples.gotdotnet.com/quickstart/howto/