Party Toonz Assessment – Blog 1.

Having completed the two smaller assessment items ourselves and found them to be reasonably straight forward, Jake and I decided we should try and tackle the Party Toonz assessment together as it looked a lot more difficult - two minds and all that! As we were due to get together on Thursday the 24th, I spent a couple of hours the day before reading through the assignment, creating a basic interface, creating the splash screen, downloading the Windows Media Player object, and creating the database. Jake did the same thing so that we could pretty much start programming from the get go.

We started by creating the main connection string to the database and writing the Load List Box procedure so that we had some data to work with. We then quickly added the menu strip so that we could at least tick something off the list! Then we attempted something a bit harder – coding the New Track button and creating the form to go with it! This took a reasonable length of time as we were still trying to get our heads round the requirements of the project, but it was really useful to have older projects to look back on – for example the Cats and Dogs project so that we could remember how to list more than one file extension for the OpenFileDialog - as well as the latest examples form Rachael.

After some serious cheering and fist pumping when that worked (and a quick trip to Hungry Jacks for lunch!) our next task was to tackle the delete button – well our sample data was a bit silly. Having already used the Connection Object and Command Object sections of code in the Add New Track form, this all started to make more sense, and so coding the Delete button was not too painful, apart from the fact that we couldn’t test it out as we hadn’t coded up the Select button yet. However, the lack of blue squiggly lines made us think we must be on the right track!! Who said ignorance is bliss again??

At this point we were due to stop (as I had to go to a tutoring lesson) so we decided to sum up our efforts for the day and write this blog … then, while I was in the process of beating Jake at pool (sorry Jake), I got a phone call cancelling my session so we decided to bash on regardless. However, having already started these blogs posts, we thought that we would finish them first.

So, all joking aside, this is where we are now (although we are about to do a little more) …

Jobs done:
• Main Interface
• Splash Screen
• Database
• Menu Strip
• New Track Form
• Delete Button (hopefully)

Jobs we hope to finish today:
• Select Button and Get Track procedure (so we can check the delete button is working)
• Edit Button and Form

Signing off from Blog 1.

Deb.