Creating Our Module Structure

• From your solution explorer right click on your project name
• Click Add => New Folder
• Name it anything you want, i named mine Modules
• Right Click on the Modules folder or whatever you named it and choose Add => Module…
• Name it whatever you want, i just named mine”Added” without the double quotes

New Module

Once you click Add, your new Module should be created and should look like this

New Module File

Now that we have our Empty Module created the first thing we need to do is add a new Method.
Within our Method will contain the code we want to execute when we call that method, so to create the method insert this line of code between the Module End Module block

Public Sub MsgAdded()

End Sub

MsgAdded is the method we will call on our submission from whatever form we want.
The next thing we need to do is create a new form instance, this will be the form that will be displayed when we call it.
Remember, this form will not be added to our project.

Dim AddedMessage As New Form

Now that we have added a declaration as a new form we now need to set some properties for that form, so lets do that.

AddedMessage.Name = "FormMessage"
AddedMessage.Text = "Contact Added"
AddedMessage.Size = New Size(313, 123)
AddedMessage.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.FixedDialog
AddedMessage.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterScreen
AddedMessage.MinimizeBox = False
AddedMessage.MaximizeBox = False
AddedMessage.BackColor = Color.White
AddedMessage.ShowIcon = False
AddedMessage.Show()
AddedMessage.TopMost = True

Let me explain what these properties are and why they are set.

	VALUES
AddedMessage.Name	Identifies the control by the Name property
AddedMessage.Text	The text that is displayed in the title bar
AddedMessage.Size	Over rides the default form size, if not set, default size will be initiated
AddedMessage.FormBorderStyle	Sets the Border style of the fom
AddedMessage.StartPosition	Sets the positioning of the form when called
AddedMessage.MinimizeBox	Determines if the Minimize button is visible or not, Values are Boolean (True or False)
AddedMessage.MaximizeBox	Determines if the Maximize button is visible or not, Values are Boolean (True or False)
AddedMessage.BackColor	Sets the background color of the form
AddedMessage.ShowIcon	Determines weather to show the icon in the title bar or not, Values are Boolean(True or False)
AddedMessage.TopMost	Determines if the form should always remain over top of other windows

Our new form is now set and can now be called by calling MsgAdded()

Now lets go a head and create our message to be displayed.
We are just going to use a Label control, and we are going to create this essentially the same way we did the form.
The first thing we need to do is create our Label to hold our message.
Insert this below AddedMessage.TopMost = True

Dim MessageLabel As New Label
Now we need to set some properties of our label.


MessageLabel.Name = "LabelMessage"
MessageLabel.Text = "Contact Has Been Saved Successfully"
MessageLabel.Width = AddedMessage.Width
MessageLabel.Location = New Point(55, 41)

Now that our label message has been created we have to tell the form to add the label to the form.
Under MessageLabel.Location = New Point(55, 41 insert this

AddedMessage.Controls.Add(MessageLabel)

Now when we call the new form, the form will add the Label control.
Remember, MessageLabel is the name of the label we created.
Anytime you add controls to a form this way you need to specify the Name of the control you want to be added inside the Controls.Add(ControlName) method.

So far we have accomplished the following tasks

1. Created a new Form
2. Set properties to our new form
3. Created a message that will be stored in a label control
4. Set the properties of the Label control
5. Told our new form to add the Label control

The final task we need to is trigger a event to call our new form, this part is pretty easy and it can be used on any form you have in your project.

• Open your Form1
• Drag a button on to your form
• Double click on the button to create a Button1_Click event
• Type in the following code
• MsgAdded()

Run the application (F5) or click the little Green Play Button at the top
When you click the button you will see your new form appear.

This concludes another Visual Basic tutorial.
I hope that you find use of this tutorial and can use this within your own project(s)

The testing side will allow you to add a maximum of 3 company records.
Once you add the 3 records a email form will pop up which will allow you to submit your feedback to me.
The reason i have set it to 3 records only is because it gives everyone a idea on how the program works and gives everyone the feel for it.
Once you get a feel for it you can tell me what you think of it, how easy or difficult it was to work with etc.
This will give me the chance to develop the program and make it as easy as possible to work with.
When the program is ready to be released as a Open Source project you will be able to download the .exe file as well as then project file.
This test release will be available for download later on today.
Stay tuned, i will add another entry once it’s available for download

What Lynx Company Directory Offers

The program will be suitable to run on your local machine as is or used in a network.
Making some modifications you may also be able to run it on a remote server for other people to use.
This may come in handy if you want to share company details with your friends or vice versa.

So, what are the details?

Some of the details you can fill in may be details you will never need to know however the options are there just in case.
Here’s a breakdown of the details you will be able to submit.

• You can upload a thumbnail (Tested Locally Only)
• Set a caption for the thumbnail
• Company name
• Address
• City
• State
• Province
• Zip
• Phone
• Fax
• Representative
  • Name of the person you communicated with if any
• Reference Number
  • A Representative may give you a reference number which may allow you to communicate with that particular person
• Company type
  • You can take a note and describe what type of company this is (eg. telemarketer, credit union, local grocery store etc.)
• Notes
  • You may wish to keep notes on this company such as payment arrangements you made, when they might call you back, what the Representative spoke to you about etc.
• Company Hours of operation
  • Keep track of the company hours of operation as this will save you time digging around looking to see if this place is open before you go down.
• Search capabilities
  • Do you have 135 companies in your directory and want to access a particular one quickly?
    Lynx Company Directory will allow you to search companies based on the company name.
    If no results have been found than you can dig around for the information and insert it in to you directory in case you need it at a later date.
• Removing company details
  • If you directory entry has a record of hours of operation, those will be removed first and than you can remove the company entry.
    Having the company hours of operation removed before the company details first may prevent you from removing the company details by accident.

What you will be able to do with Lynx Company Directory

As stated above, Lynx Company Directory will be open source so you can do what ever your heart desires.
Modify the functionality of it, add your own set of features and make it run the way you want to run it.
Also as mentioned above, it can be used as is for your own personal use or shared amongst your friends and or family.

Changes to the program may happen between now and the time it is made publicly available.
All functionality as stated above will remain intact but may be layed out differently than shown in the screenshots below.
Basic features still needs to be worked on and arranged at a more proper level as you will see in the screens below.
I am pushing to release this publicly July 1st 2010.

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Ready State example of use:
Declare 4 variables, 1 for each state.

Dim Complete As String = WebBrowser1.ReadyState = WebBrowserReadyState.Complete

Dim Interactive As String = WebBrowser1.ReadyState =
WebBrowserReadyState.Interactive

Dim Loaded As String = WebBrowser1.ReadyState =
WebBrowserReadyState.Loaded

Dim Loading As String = WebBrowser1.ReadyState =
WebBrowserReadyState.Loading

Use your declarations in If  statements


If Interactive Then Me.Text = "Not yet loaded"

ElseIf Complete Then Me.Text = "Ready"

End If

In this tutorial i will show you how you can control a home page content based
website.

What we will be doing is instead of having our content programaticly filled in,
it will be filled using a database.

Creating The Database

• Fire up Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Web Developer 2010
• Create a ASP.NET Website NOT a ASP.NET Blank Website
• Once your project has been created right click on App_Data folder -> Add New
  Item
• Select SQL Server Database
• Give it a name than click Add
• Right click on Tables and choose Add New Table (Figure 1.0)
• 

  Figure 1.0

• You should see 3 Columns now (Column Name, Data Types and Allow Nulls)
• Fill out the columns as they are shown in the table below
• 1) IS 2)PK
  • Identity Specification = Yes
  • Primary Key

• Once you have this complete click the Purple save disk at the top
• Give your table a name, i named mine aspx_Content
• Close the window than click on the Tables folder to expand (Figure 1.1)
• 
• Right click on your new table and choose Show Table Data
• Insert a sample record in to the Caption and Content field than close it out

Now that we have completed the Database set up it’s time to create the content
section on the home page of our website.

Creating Content Section

• From your Default.aspx page drag a DataList control from the Toolbox in the Data
  section on to your form
• Click the little arrow that appears on the DataList control to get the Smart
  Task
• From the Data Source drop down list choose <New data source…>
• Click on Database (Figure 1.2)
• 
• Click Ok
• In the next dialog from the Drop down list box choose your database from the
  list and click Next
• In the next window (Select Statements) leave the * radio box checked as this is
  the Wild card and will select all fields
• Click the Order button (Optional) and you can choose which field you want to
  Order By.
• Click Next than click Finish

You should now see your DataList on your form populated (Figure 1.3)

If you press F5 on your keyboard or click the little Green Play Button to run
your site you should now see 1 record (The record you inserted manualy)

Now that we have our home page completed by displaying our content lets create
the Admin section of our website where we can add Edit our content.

Note that we are only going to work on the Edit functionality because if we want
to modify our content we can just modify it.

Adding new entries would be useful for blog posts, news posts, site update posts
etc.

Creating The Admin Section

• In your Solution Explorer, right click and choose New Folder
• Name it something like Admin
• Right click on the Folder and click Add New Item
• Choose Web Form
• Name it Edit_Content.aspx and click Add

Adding Content Functionality

• From your Toolbox drag and drop a FormView control on to your form
• Repeat the steps above highlighted in the Green
• After you followed those steps you want to click the Advanced button
• Select both check boxes

  This allows you to add, modify and delete records

• Click Next than Finish
• With the FormView selected go in to your properties window (Figure 1.4)
• Choose Default Mode from Read Only to Edit
• 
• Now that you have set this when you run this page this will always display in
  Edit Mode.
• With the FormView still selected click the little Arrow to pull up the FormView
  Tasks option
• Click Edit Templates
• From the Display: combo box change it from ItemDisplay to InsertItemDisplay
• You should now see 2 text boxes.

You can format these fields in which ever way you want.

How you format these fields is how they will be displayed at runtime

This is a short tutorial on how you can make your site content run off your
database.

The advantage to something like this is the ability to change your content as
often as you want without having to programaticly change it.

Here’s a comparison of Programaticly Inserting Content to Data Inserting Content

As you see there are the same number of tasks to do however if we take a look at
how many seconds to minutes each task takes will make up, inserting content
programaticly will take longer by far.

Well, this concludes this tutorial.

I hope it has helped you in some way.

This tutorial was created to display how you can create your home page content
using a database and how you could change your home page content at any time
from your Admin Panel.

Thank You for viewing this tutorial.

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• Take the zip file and place it in
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Once you do this you can fire up Visual Web Developer and create a new website.
You should see the new template called asp.net website cherry
Go a head and click on it and give your site a name than click Ok.
You should now see the new template.

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