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 ...

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