I thought I'd start this thread just to chat and make this forum more interesting. What was the first VB project you ever created?

My first project, when I had one weeks experience in VB, was a windows scandisk program. It looked exactly like Windows scandisk but when you asked it to start, the message "Now formating Drive C:" appeared and a progress meter appeared. It really scared a lot of my friends when I sent it to them. It may have been very simple but it tought me a lot in my early days of designing forms in VB.

So how did you start in the world of VB?  

[Edited by stuartalex on 11-03-2004 at 11:20 PM GMT]

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First Visual Basic program (note the "Visual") was an astrology ("what's your sign") thing... had a lot of forms (around 50) because I didn't know how to reference them together lol

[Edited by JLRodgers on 12-03-2004 at 02:53 PM GMT]

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My first serious attempt to do a complete VB app was to change an MSDOS one I had made to automate/computerise our colleges registration process. It was quite complex, had many forms menus and toolbars and a lot of data controls. I had no idea then how to write code for data access and since I didn't know how to do searching in a database the search form had the user go through the records one by one using the datacontrol.

It never got used because of many issues (it doesn't matter that most of them involved credit for the application and getting paid for it) but I learnt a lot. I have not used the Data control since then and I have a variety of ways of searching through the database now.

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Hmm... When I first installed Visual Basic, I started creating a calculator same as in Windows (normal, not scientific), so that would be my first project. But if you were reffering to 'serious' project, then that would be accounting application. I started doing this project on my second day as Visual Basic 'programer' (first day I worked on calculator), cause I first took a job, and then started to learn VB.  

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Before the serious attempt I did 2 things. The first one was a small app that would launch games in different locations on the computer. I called it The Labyrinth. Another one I did concurrently would copy a couple of small video clips from a bunch of floppies onto someones hard drive and play them. I didn't know you could play them in your own program so it launched Windows Media Player. I gave my friends this app in order for them to get the video clips they had into organized folders on their PCs.

It worked on some, but not on others. Where it failed it gave me an error, "cannot find referenced library: Msvbvm50.dll". I did not recall passing a reference to this dll and thought that I would redo it and remove the reference. . Fat chance.

I couldn't understand it and I eventually realised that you cannot just copy VB apps, they had to be installed. This also got me started in studying how to make .DLLs (the first one I made used DAO to open and report the structure of any mdb database.) and ActiveX and various other Windows technologies.

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Another first project I made was a maze game. Using the arrow keys you had to navigate a character to the end of the maze. Simple? Well, no... I had never heard of arrays at this time so I had about 100 image box's on a form and one variable saying where the character was. If you pressed down the code was:

If char = 21 then 'move character char = 31 End if

At this rate I managed to finish one level in about a month! Since then arrays have been my savior when creating games. We live and learn!    

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I didn't start with VB!

As I'm a lab teacher I had to teach Access 97, so I went buying a book. By mistake I bought a wrong book, quite expensive, about Access VBA. So I started writing Access DBs. My first one was a videotape archive for my wife, entirely done in Access. It had forms, request forms with combos, splash screen and custom message boxes, custom reports and a custom control panel. I liked so much, but my wife said it was a too difficult way to operate, so she still stores her movies in a Word file.


Three years later I found out that I could write in pure VB, so I first tested my strenght by making an Euro Converter, with icons in menus (somebody here can remember my threads), then I made some other small apps.

Nowadays, my last one is a message-board management system for a discotheque. A software house has saw it, and from this week I start to collaborate with them.


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I can't remember my first vb app. , but I can remember the first program I wrote many years ago on my Dragon 32 computer. It was a darts scoreboard where you put your score in and it displayed the remainder and when you started to get down to finishes it displayed the out shot.

The last application I wrote was a factory simulation tool, where our planning department setup all the work schedules for 30 machines, run my simulation of how the factory would run and then display it as a Gantt chart and identify any shortfalls in their plans, for example machine downtime due to waiting for input materials. They could then shuffle their plan around until there were no stops. This simulates the factory over three days and takes 10 mins to run.

Steve  

hi, stu!  

how are yah? hope yer okay!  

first vb project... hmm.. i remember it so clearly, like it was yesterday...

i made a menu program for our canteen!  

well, i had a form with the list of items on the menu with pictures, then they could click on the picture, and it would add 1 to the seemingly receipt... with automatic updating of the price to pay...

several forms, i made... for several of the canteen stalls...


seems advanced for a first timer, eh?          

well, i wasn't using a database at all... and it was never used... it was just an end of term project...

a serious attempt? well...

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I actually started in Assembler and Pascal, doing /d animation from scratch, I did my first real AP in Pascal at 17year ols, I was a inventory manager for multimedia Item, I base my Idea on a video store, with User acces and daily chage.

My first one in VB was a simple Tic Tac Toe Game, My last one was a Market Analisys Program from some Marriott Hotels, or a Excel VBA for Inter-Continental Hotel, a PMS (Property Management System) Backup in Excel for their downtime.

Daniel B.

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tuppence-worth here,
my first VB project was a db front-end on access to mimic an msaccess-pure system for the mod... most of the issues I had were mimicking the sub-forms that msaccess provides by default.... this was the source of most of my (sponged) knowledge.. i would not recommend it to anyone without a complete A*** of a project manager to keep them motivated -albeit with the wip, not the carrot! ;)
Kieron


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Ummmm thats hard, i think my very 1st was a tank fighting game, but i couldnt get any missles to fire so i stops doing it. later i made a game called terrorist escape in vb5 it was pretty neat... i had cheats mines, and you had to run away from a terrorist, i could probally remake the tank one now tho. i now have vb.net 2002 edu, and its alot harder, but its good t start with, i rember in my noob days i couldnt even make a non glitchy boundry script for a pisture that used key down comands.    lol

I'm starting with HTML editor. Its was my first project and my final year project for my degree.
Its was a complex system for me at that time coz I know nothing about Vb and event I don't have any  book for refrence.
I'm only depend on web, search through web and study using example. It was tough.
And since that time I fall in love with VB. Now a lot of thing I can create even I can make a money by dev small system.

And my favourite system that I dev is GIS system which is locate all the tree for logging. The sys tell U which tree can cut down and what profit U can get .
It combine database and graphical and animated thats my favourite sys and the toughness


[Edited by fuji_su on 16-09-2005 at 11:47 AM GMT]

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Wow! Fuji, would u care to upload the GIS project up here? It might be good for learners!  
Hope u don't expect a price for that


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My first VB project was simple, I create a form in which you press a button and a textbox reads "Hello". Hard Huh?
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Misterxed sorry I cannot fullfill your request about GIS project coz thats project has their copyrights.
I sell that project to forestry company and I cannot easy and freely distribute.

But If u need my help regarding GIS I'll try to help.


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