Need some advice on forms and data

[William Gower]

I am looking at designing an app in vb.net that will feature forms that have
tool buttons on them such as Add,Edit,Delete,Find,Next,Previous etc. When
the user opens the form (MDI child), I will grab the data from the table
into a dataset and pass it to the form. From then on until the form is
closed the form will work with that dataset such as adding to it, deleting
from it, moving the next or previous record. I will save changes to the
dataset and to the table and then do refreshes occasionally. As long as the
user has the form open, they will use this same dataset. This is a small
home user app which will be single user. Any problems that you can see with
approach?

 

[Sijin Joseph]

Some issues that you will need to consider are

1. What happens if the user tries to open the same form twice.
2. If there is related data between different forms, then how wil you
reflect changes in one form in another.
3. Do you need a Search Form as well?
4. Are you going to go in for a Menu Based interface, or an Inductive
User Interface ( Like the Task Pane is Office Apps)

Sijin Joseph
http://www.indiangeek.net
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