Adding Forms

[joltremari]

I am creating an app that will keep up with info on my students. I need it to create a new form each time I add a student to my listNewStudent box.

Any help?

Thanks

JO

[MartinLiss]

Here is how you would do it

Dim frmMyStudent As New frmStudent

frmMyStudent.Show

but keeping track of the several frmMyStudent copies is difficult and there is probably a better way to do what you want to do without creating a new form for each student. Please describe what it is that you want to do.

[kedaman]

You could add them up in a collection

Private students as collection

students.Add New frmStudent

[joltremari]

The info I'm trying to keep up with is just general stuff. These are music students, voice and guitar. I just want to keep up with: Name, Address, etc.. also instruments they play, past performances, awards, and a few personal notes about them. I thought if I had one form that I could use as sort-of a template, then I could just add the blank form each time I add a student. Also I never have more than 15 students at a time so its not like I will be continuously adding them. I mean that there will be a limit.

[MartinLiss]

You have described the need for a database application. You could create a database like this:

Students
StudentID
Name
AddressLine1
AddressLine2
AddressLIne3
PersonalNotes

Instruments
StudentID
Instrument

Awards
StudentID
Award


etc. And then create a single form that retrieves and or updates the information for students based on StudentID (or perhaps name).

[joltremari]

Thanks, I have never worked with Databases in VB but I've been doing some reasearch and I have my forms created and a database created in MS Access. I just don't know how to make it store the info when I enter it into my form. I have all the paths set up; e.g. DataControl, DataFields DataSources etc... I just need it to save the info I type into my form.

I appreciate your help,

JO