Hello from a returning learner...

Hello from a returning learner...

• SNOMan

  spotty wrote:

  Yes you can chnage the splash screen to your own graphics / layout. Its very easy to modify. If youve scanned the images in, yes you can store the images in the SQL Express database. Getting Images into SQL is a question that has been asked a number of times in the VB Forums or a simple web search will reveal a number of ways to implement it but basically its not too difficult to create a database of images.

  I take it anyone of these tutorials will teach me what I need to know about building a database program which I take it is similar to programming in VB in its own right or do I program the main program in VB and connect it to SQL for the record side of things...

  
  

• rgrid

  Hi there,

  As far as I know VB.NET EE has the possibility to convert code from older VB(.net) to the new language, but I have no experience with that.

  About the splashscreens, VB.NET EE has a built-in option that creates a splash screen (project, add new file, splash screen), and you can customize the opacity of the splash screen, so that won't be a problem.
  
  About the tutorials, there are many of these on the internet, and also microsoft has a site for software-developers where they teach you how to build certain software, but I can't remember it's address.

  About the advice, that's why these forums are here... :)

  Grtz, Tom.

  
  
  

• Zephyr12345

  The tutorials do have database examples as does the ebook on the VB Web site.

  SQL Express would be the database but your development would be a database application so you would be doing both at the same time I would suspect.

  That is you would create a form in VB to write to the database and hook up the database to this is part of that process. The database functionality is made through a series of controls that you use on the form.

  So your really doing both at the same time.

  
  

• Luca Dellamore - MS

  I tried out the new option in VB 2005 EE that upgrades old code from previous versions of VB [In my case, VB6] into a more up to date version on an example calculator I created a few years back called AmiCalc [named after Ami Mizuno from the Anime and Manga series called "Sailor Moon"] and I found that it was full of errors when I tried to compile it...

  I was wondering if someone could look through the code which is in the zipfile that's downloadable from the address posted below and point me in the right direction as to how to fix the code...

  http://rapidshare.de/files/20369994/AmiCalc_Project_Files.zip.html

  
  

• Tamilmannan

  It's good that VB.NET EE [which I take is another name for VB 2005 EE] has a built in splash screen option but will it allow me to add a picture of my choice amongst other things...

  On another note, the reason why I'm mainly looking forward to learning this new version of VB is because I collect manga and doujinshi [doujinshi being manga created by fans] in both scanned and actual printed versions and I have so many, it's difficult to keep track of them so I'm looking to program a couple of database programs, one for doujinshi and one for manga and I was wondering if it was possible to program an option in both programs which would allow me to attach a scan of the cover, say, of a manga or doujinshi to a related record for reference purposes...

  Thanks for the welcome, Tom and I look forward to creating some good programs thanks to VB 2005!:)

  
  

• chris729

  There's a way to make really nice splash screens from a Png file with an alpha channel, better than the built in way as you can have weirdly shaped splash screens. (This is no good for forms as you can't add controls).
  see Michael Swanson's blog (C#)
  translation to VB.Net
  
  
  

• Giv Afshar

  Yes you can chnage the splash screen to your own graphics / layout.       Its very easy to modify.

  If youve scanned the images in, yes you can store the images in the SQL Express database.   Getting Images into SQL is a question that has been asked a number of times in the VB Forums or a simple web search will reveal a number of ways to implement it but basically its not too difficult to create a database of images.

   

   http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/

  Learning Resources
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/learning/

  Starter Kits
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/starterkit/default.aspx

  VB Forums
  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/default.aspx forumgroupid=10&siteid=1

   

  
  
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