Do you fancy a challenge?

[PM_86]

I've decided my strengths are in organisation, design and creativity, so thought I'd share the design of an app I was creating - nothing too difficult, but a few areas got me stumped being a newbie at vb and my MSDN part of vb6 won't nstall" (it contains the help files!), so I've put everything on the back burner for the moment. Maybe you're up for a challenge?

I thought that maybe the app (myContcts) could still see the light of day if one or more people would like to complete or add a section to it and share the results with us all.

Anyway attached are the forms and blank .mdb file. I'd love somepone write the code, and we could call it a joint effort and release it as such. I'm not looking for fame or money, just a useful app.

The app is a personal Contact Manager with fields for Name, Addresses, Email, Telephone etc. in and a grid view as well as a single record view. It also includes a drag n drop picture box (this already works as it uses the OLE in Access and no programming just menu / proprties options).

I've cleared out 99% of my code so it won't clutter or confuse you as most didn't work as I wanted it to or it wasn't commented, and someone else would probably do it differently...

The zip below includes a blank MSAccess database with all fileds linked to fields in the vb form.

The form has the usual buttons etc... Add, Delete, Data Control, plus Sort, Find and a List menu option (for a DBGrid).

Those are the basics I'd like to see implemented as I'd like to use such an app. Other ideas for later additions would be alarms for birthdays, and it would be great if someone could implement a dialer too, and maybe add the funtionallity so that it could link to a central database on a server somewhere online. Oh and how about a Help.hlp file. I haven't got a clue how they are created. :-)

And FINALLY...
If you do contribute in part or otherwise, please comment your code (I'll be interested to see and learn how things are done correctly), and then please send it all back to the forum (in this thread) for someone else to contribute etc. Maybe it would be a good idea to register interest in adding certain parts then duplicates won't happen. Just post what you you intend to do then then its up to others should they also repeat the same thing. Assuming anyone responds at all.

I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next. Over to you people.

PM_86 15-Jan-2006