| 1. |
Prepare a TOE Chart
before beginning to build the interface. |
| 2. |
Create a new
application and name the project country. |
| 2.1 |
The name of the
form should be frmcountries. |
| 2.2 |
Change the Text
property to “Country Statistics”. |
| 2.3 |
Set the WindowState
property to Maximized. |
| 2.4 |
Assign the filename
counties to the form file object. |
| 2.5 |
Set the project’s
startup form to frmcountries. |
| 3. |
In the center of
the top of the form, create a label named lbltitle and change the Text
property to Selected Country Statistical Information. |
| 3.1 |
Create a graphic to
hold an icon on the form. The icons are located in C:\ProgramFiles\MicrosoftVisualStudio.Net\Common7\Graphics\Icons\Flags
and copy the following icons into your bin folder. FLGRSA, FLGJAPAN,
FLGUK and FLGUSA02. (Do a Windows Search to locate the files if
you cannot locate the file path.) |
| 4. |
Create labels and
titles to hold the following information (Language, Currency, and
Capital City). |
| 5. |
Create a list box
and add the following countries to the Items property (South Africa,
Japan, United Kingdom and the United States. |
| 6. |
Create a simple
Microsoft Access Database and name it "countries". The
following categories should be entered into it: Country,
Population, Language, Capital City, Currency |
| 6.1 |
Assign the
following values to each category: |
|
Country |
Language |
Capital City |
Currency |
|
|
Japan
United Kingdom
United States of Ameria
South Africa |
Japanese
English
English
English |
Tokyo
London
Washington D.C
Johannesburg |
Yen
Pound
US Dollar
Rand |
|
| 7. |
Create a
DataAdapter, Connection, and DataSet object for the countries.mdb
database. |
| 8. |
In the general
declarations section, load each country icon into a different variable
using a statement like the one below
Dim australia As Image =
Image.FromFile("flgastrl.ico") |
| 9. |
Create a picture
object to hold the icon of the selected flag. Be sure to change the
SizeMode property to StretchImage to fill the object with the entire
picture. |
| 10. |
Create a button to
end the application. |
| 11. |
In the
SelectedIndexedChanged event of the list box, assign the correct icon to
the picture box using a Select Case statement, checking the listbox’s
SelectedItem property. |
| 12. |
Save the solution,
then start and test the application. Make sure you test different
countries. Close the application. |
| 13. |
GUI
layout. |
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