I am trying to create a program that will have a form to add users with multiple information (first/last name,tel,vat,email etc.) and store them in a database.
Then I want to have a standard form and will choose from the database the user each time I want to print the form. This way when the user is chosen all fields will be filled with the info from the database.
I have no clue with VB at all so all I ask here is for some guidance.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Sounds like you need to learn .NET first, so head over the Microsoft Virtual Academy and wade through VB Fundamentals for Absolute Beginners.
If you are interested in making a user website, then this Microsoft tutorial is a good place to start. It shows how to create a Movie database with maintenance screens. You should be able to adapt it to "users".
You can also search the MSDN Developer Code Samples.
Happy coding.
P.S. Stack Overflow is for specific technical questions, not general inquiries. That's why your question is getting down-voted.
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totally newbie,
for long time I want to start learning but when I ask question I get question "for what purpose do u want to learn programming? u want make android apps? web development? etc etc".
I am totally new and dont have clue, I just want to start learning, and discover on the way what is more interesting for me. dont have clue whats the difference between android app developers or web developers.
now I have "goal" to create maps app, google maps always show wrong directions, and my country is not in their support list, they dont do changes when i report wrong streets etc. so I want to create map app or whatever its called. I want to take for example google maps source, and start recreating it, adding streets buildings, changing road directions, etc. but googling it does not help me at all, can anyone give me direction from where I should start? 3 years ago I gave up because when I followed articles i wasted months "studying" maybe absolutely not related stuff, I just need guidance. for first even it will be good to tell me where should I ask where should I search for answers, advices. which programming languages which books, or online courses, not going to pay for any courses till I have idea what I am doing. so am after free lessons. I am forced to write tag on post... dont have clue what to write. maybe maps? thats how clueless I am.
If you want to create mapping software to publish your own maps I think a good starting point can be ArcGIS Online from Esri. They offer a free resources for developers (create dev account here for free)
There is a lot of samples to learn from, and you can go through different technologies and programming languages, check resources page.
If you decide that you want to prepare some software components to easier collect GIS data (GIS stands for Geographic Information System) I would suggest to give a chance to QGIS application (QGIS website) which is mature mapping software with plugins system on board. It bases on plugins prepared with the python language to change UX of base QGIS application. There are also a lot of samples - you can even check how existing plugins are designed because most of them is open source.
I am working on a project which contains the question with options and solution of that question. I want to display the Mats equations and some coding questions on webpage. So my query is what will the the procedure to insert those equation into Database and display it on my webpage.
for the reference I want to display like this following link :
http://www.indiabix.com/aptitude/compound-interest/
http://www.indiabix.com/c-programming/functions/
Thanks
Frankly speaking as far as I understood your problem you do not have Idea about coding (I may be wrong but as you are not suggesting any particular database and any technical stuff I'm assuming this.)
You can use prebuilt frameworks for this job you don't need to design application from scratch unless it is your some project.
Some suggested Links are this ...
Moodle
WordPress
You need to find plugin after installing these frameworks on your webserver bundle
For that you can use
WAMP on windows or LAMP if on Linux
But Again your question too general. Give some inputs first
Information About Moodle:
IF you go throught moodle webiste you will get to know that how powerful LMS( learning management system ).
You just need to know how to configure such websites
Go through this video tutorials if you want to
Infromation About WordPress:
Wordpress is general purpose Website so you can develop any service with it very easily and everything including database is taken care by it (same case with moodle but moodle is more focused on LMS )
You have to search for LMS plugin inside wordpress for your purpose.
KINDLY ACCEPT THIS ONE AS ANsWER if you find information usefule... (Points help me contribute more and allows me also to ask question)
I am pretty new in this game so please do not judge me harshly.
So I need to build a question/answer database for an app.
The idea is simple:
User types a question and if I have an answer in my database, it gives an answer. If I do not have an answer, it goes for my manual moderation, so I can add new answers for the future.
I do not know if someone has already build a software like this and I can just buy one, or do I have to hire someone to build one from the ground. Which language should I use? Which software?
I know that Java, C++ and SQL are most popular languages for that type of jobs, but are they the best solution or there are better languages?
I need a database that can hold a really huge amount of data.
I would really appreciate any help guys!
and if any of you can build me this database, I do not mind to hire a freelancer.
Thank you!
Best Regards,
Ayazhan.
Yes you can do it.
if you have some knowledge in SQl then you can make an local Db in your app and consume it according to requirement. The simple question and answer app contains set of predefined questions.
The above link will help you to develop this app.
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Before I start: I know this is a very broad question, but it is the best way I could phrase it, I have searched around a lot and can only seem to find generic explanations. I searched SO and didn't find much. I have also skimmed through some pages in the wordpress codex, and didn't find anything really useful.
I would like to create a simple database driven blog-style website, it will really only consist of stories (their title, date, content, etc), I just began teaching myself web development and my idea of how database driven websites work has proven to be completely wrong. I figured you would always need a file connecting to the database for each article, but the more I read I learn about mark up being generated on request, and so on, so the actual /year/month/day/article doesn't actually have to exist on the server, or that may be wrong, that is why I am here.
As I said I cannot find much on this topic that isn't a generic graphic of a server interacting with a web page. How does one go about creating a database driven website of this style? Are the files/directories not actually on the server but only created on a case by case basis as someone requests it? If so, then why can you type out a complete url and it be there with out throwing a 404? I have a lot of questions, really all I need is a strong explanation of how these sites work, code examples, and so on. Could someone explain how they work or point me to information (recommended articles, examples or books)?
EDIT: Please don't recommend a framework, I want to understand how these sites work and build one myself.
It's actually quite simple. Wordpress's index page calls wp-blog-header.php. That file calls for other files, and those files call for other files. It goes on for some time until all the contents of the page are actually loaded.
The databases come in when you start thinking about having users. Obviously the user information is stored in the database. Beyond that, Wordpress keeps post titles, dates, and other information in the database for easy loading later on.
Comments are also stored in the database. Each comment is associated with a number, and in the database, just like the posts, the dates/times as well as the usernames associated with the comments are kept.
Further exploration in the actual Wordpress files will reveal a lot of interesting features.
You might want to check out Django. It is an open source Python web framework that provides a lot of the functionality you are talking about. It also has a lot of very good high-level documentation with even a free e-book. It is centered a bit more on newspaper type sites than blogging, but most of the same principles apply. If you are new to python and like to use IDEs I would recommend checking out PyCharm. It has tight Django integration and makes for simple project setup and debugging.
Generally speaking, you'll use a framework that will take input parameters (year/month/day/article), run some code to fetch data from the database, and dynamically create the webpage. There isn't an actual .html file sitting on the webserver. One of the most popular frameworks to do websites like you're describing is Ruby on Rails, which makes it incredibly simple to do.
Years ago (pre-web) I used to be a Fortran developer (yes it was a very long time ago!) but these days I run a small non-IT business. I would like to develop a database application for my clients to access via a browser (or maybe down the line via a mobile phone). I haven't done any programming for a while apart from some VB macros in Microsoft Excel. I would be grateful if anyone could suggest the best language/technology to learn to get me heading in the right direction.
As Neil said in his comments there are dozens of different, valid answers to this.
Usually I would suggest going with a language you already know, but neither Fortran or VBA are really suited for this task, as far as I know.
Personally I would suggest Django, which is a web framework written in Python. It simplifies many common tasks and it is very well documented.
But there are many more possible solutions.
Before I started with a framework I'd break the problem into pieces. If you've never done anything with a database before you'll find that challenging enough without piling web or mobile on top of it.
Model your problem and get a good object or data model in place. Test that thoroughly without thinking about UI. Once you have that, perhaps you can expose it as services that any UI can call.
You'll quickly become overwhelmed if you try to do it all at once.
Here's another thought: If these are paying customers, why not do yourself and them a favor and hire someone that knows how to do this? It's great that you used to write Fortran, but if you haven't kept up you won't be doing your business any good by putting out a bad first effort for customers to see.
Do it right - get a professional. Do your learning on your own time.
You can use ASP.NET and SQL Server to get something online that will allow users to edit a database table fairly easily. They've simplified it to the point where you can drag and drop the necessary controls (GridView and a SqlDataSource for instance) and define your datasource in a wizard for most simple table CRUD functionality. Basically give users the ability to edit a table without writing any code.
If you need to do something a little more difficult it's easy to write code that will add functionality to the original drag/drop stuff you did.
There are lots of good resources out there for asp.net and C# also, so it will help you get up to speed quickly.
Keep in mind that I work almost entirely with .NET/SQL Server so my opinion will be slanted towards them...