Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition

Summary

This chapter developed a complete application. Through the development process, you saw how even a simple project can require detailed components such as error-checking and proper form management. This chapter gave your early programming experience a needed boost by strengthening what you already knew and by helping you focus more on the mechanics of building a complete working application.

• Use hotkeys to give users quick access to all needed controls on the form.

• Although labels never accept the focus, you can add a hotkey combination to a label, and the focus jumps to the text box next to that label.

• Unload all forms that your application uses in an application.

• Error-checking accounts for a large part of any application. Error-checking ...