[2005] Creating A Wizard In VB.NET

[Hack]

Attached is a basic example of how to create a Wizard in VB.NET 2005.

Thanks to Atheist for pointing out the one thing I was not sure how to do and that is work with a collection of controls (formerly known as a control array.)

I am using five GroupBox controls for the Wizard. I chose those over Panels because I like the caption feature of the GroupBox.

This program does not actually do anything other than demonstrate how a Wizard should work.

For those of you that would like to see how this is done, but do not want to download the actual project, I put the salient portions of the code necessary in the second post of this thread.

[Hack]

Wizard code

Public Class Wizard

    Public Sub New()
        InitializeComponent()
        WizardFrameCollection = New GroupBox() {Me.GroupBox1, Me.GroupBox2, Me.GroupBox3, Me.GroupBox4, Me.GroupBox5}
    End Sub

    Private WizardFrameCollection() As GroupBox
    Private FrameIndex As Integer = 0

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
            With WizardFrameCollection(0)
            .Size = New Size(533, 223)
            .Location = New Point(161, 1)
        End With        
    End Sub

    Private Sub btnNext_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnNext.Click
        WizardFrameCollection(FrameIndex).Visible = False
        FrameIndex = FrameIndex + 1
        If FrameIndex = 4 Then btnNext.Enabled = False 'last frame so there is no next
        btnBack.Enabled = True
        With WizardFrameCollection(FrameIndex)
            .Size = New Size(533, 223)
            .Location = New Point(161, 1)
            .Visible = True
        End With
    End Sub

    Private Sub btnBack_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnBack.Click
        WizardFrameCollection(FrameIndex).Visible = False
        FrameIndex = FrameIndex - 1
        btnNext.Enabled = True
        With WizardFrameCollection(FrameIndex)
            .Size = New Size(533, 223)
            .Location = New Point(161, 1)
            .Visible = True
        End With

        If FrameIndex = 0 Then 'first frame so no where to go back to
            btnBack.Enabled = False
        Else
            btnBack.Enabled = True
        End If
    End Sub
End Class

[Hack]

Apparently, I forgot to include the solution file in my zip.

Thank you Loraine!

[Loraine]

I think they know how to run it even there is no solution project at all . Now the problem is after extracting the files and run it the following error showed up.

One or more projects in the solution could not be loaded for the following reasons;

1. The project file or web has been moved, renamed or is not on your computer.

This projects will be labeled as unavailable in solution explorer. Expand the project node to show the reason the project could not be loaded.

[Hack]

Is there something that I forgot to include in the zip file?

Anyone?

[Loraine]

Excuse me sir Hack but can you attached all the files included in the project such as:

Bin Folder(Including the files inside)
Obj Folder(Including the files inside)
My Project Folder(Including the files inside)

[Hack]

How is this?

[Loraine]

Still not working

[JuggaloBrotha]

It works fine for me, although those buttons look kind of weird being white like that :P

Loraine: Unzip all of the files to a new folder, then double click the 'Wizard.vbproj' and click 'Run' in the IDE when it's loaded

[newpat]

Hi Hack,
what is the wizard exactly doing?
when I select a month on yr program, the exception show out

 'System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException' in mscorlib.dll

other: Year、Month and Day parameter cannot represent DateTime。