Big favor to ask

[modfather]

I'm hoping there's someone generous enough to help me out with about 15 minutes of their time. I'm re-writing an application I originally designed in VB6 in VB.NET w/Access 2003. I'm doing it for free for a dance company my daughter is a member of. My problem is: I seem to be falling back into coding with bad habits learned in VB6 and not taking advantage of the new tools available in .NET. Right now, the program is only about 200 lines long (other than the generated code). The application is for scoring a competition that we're sponsoring in about 30 days and I'm under a bit of pressure to get it finished.

I can provide my complete code and the database if someone would be kind enough to help me out. I'm just looking for a few tips on what I'm doing wrong, where I could improve, etc. I'm *NOT* looking for someone to write it for me, but hoping for a guiding hand. I'll guarantee a Christmas card to anyone who'd be so cool!

Thanks and please let me know here if you have a few minutes to look over my code and offer suggestions/hints.

Thanks again!
Steve

 

[chiph]

Switching to .NET is indeed a big mental shift. Here's a few ideas:

1) Use classes, not modules
2) The methods in your classes should fit on one screen worth of code.
3) Think about your scoring code as an application in it's own right. The mental picture you should have while writing it ought to be "someone is going to call me -- maybe it's a GUI, maybe it's a web service, or maybe even a command-line"

Chip H.


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