GUI best practices in VB.NET

[jsnunez]

Hi all

I need to migrate an application from ms access 2000 to vb.net. I would like to know if there is any tutorial, manual, guide, document that will help me building the GIU with VB.NET tools. End user toolbars from ms access such as Database, Form View, Form Design, Menu Bar are not available in Vb.NET

What are the best GIU practices in vb.net?

thanks
jsn

 

[chiph]

It depends greatly on what your requirements are.

Chip H.


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[jsnunez]

Hi

are there any examples, demo versions, snapshots, that I can see?

Type of main menus, and forms, etc ..

thanks
jsn

 

[chiph]

I would just play around with the toolbox (View | Toolbox) and see what's available.

Of course, there's tons of third party controls available, plus you can write your own.

Chip H.


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[jsnunez]

Chiph

I would like to see some existing examples of real vb.net applications that will allow me to evaluate the product, and see how things are currently done. I am in a desing step, and I am looking for what is now built in the vb.net industry.

If there are tools for agilde project development please let me know.

thanks
jsn

 

[chiph]

I'm sorry, but I can't do your work for you. You'll just have to look around some.

Chip H.


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[jsnunez]

This is part of an analysis/design phase to search for best practices. It allows to avoid mayor errors in the next phase (e.g. development, tests), and to deliver the wrong product. And probably to develop a product that already exists, in this case you are reinventing the wheel

thank you very much for your assistance
jsn

 

[SqueakinSweep]

There's plenty of books about...and plenty of resources on the net. As for specific analysis and design, they are standard regardless of what software development tool you use.


Sweep
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...if its f****ed blame someone else
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[PRPhx]

Who is your audience? You? A single user? A small department? What you need to do, as part of the design and needs analysis, is contact those users (ideally the most knoweldgeable user(s) ) and see what THEY want. THEy know how their work flows and they will probably have suggestions as to how to improve that flow.

If you have to, either have your users do screen prints of existing forms, or draw them by hand. And look closer at the tools available in vb net. You DO have meny bars, tool bars, etc available to you. YOU, the developer must build them, however. Same with the forms you will need. Your just going to have to do some work.

 

[jsnunez]

I have found that:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwinforms/html/reaworapps1.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwinforms/html/reaworapps1.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/code/list/winforms.asp

thanks
jsn