How do I

[dialtoneuk]

Hi all,
I'm a newbie to VB Express and I'm 'trying' to write a program to look-up a database for error codes and their meanings.
Can anyone tell me how I might go about doing this.

Any help would be really appreciated.


D.

 

[Golom]

What sort of "error codes"?

Codes you have defined in your system?
VB Error codes?
DAO error codes?
ADO error codes?

[small]No! No! You're not thinking ... you're only being logical.
- Neils Bohr[/small]

 

[dialtoneuk]

Hi Golom,
I have a couple of large manuals with error codes and their descriptions which I am having to trawl through each time I get and error code that I don't recognise. I was wanting to create a VB front-end to look up the error code and display it's description. I'm trying to program this in VB Express, so my colleagues can have a copy as well.

D.

 

[Golom]

What have you done so far? What you appear to be asking for is the design of an entire system (albiet a fairly simple one.)

Do you know how to
- create a database?
- design a database table?
- load data into it?
- open a VB connection to it?
- write SQL to retrieve data from it?
- display data on a form?

We could drop some data retrieval code here but I suspect that you need something more than that.

[small]No! No! You're not thinking ... you're only being logical.
- Neils Bohr[/small]

 

[IT4EVR]

When you say VB Express are you talking about Visual Basic 2005 Express or are you talking about Visual Basic 6. These are vastly different animals.

 

[dialtoneuk]

Thanks all,
I've been pointed in the direction of the microsoft web site for some video tuition

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/vb/learning/default.aspx#beginners

D.