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VB.net Question
jhunter46
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To preface, I'm a complete VB.net noob.
What I want to do is create a program that will allow someone to enter in the names of restaurants, store them and then randomly pick one when a button is clicked.
The UI is pretty simple, I have a text box and a button to save the text that is entered, and then a button to pick a random restaurant and display it in a message box.
The thing I'm trying to figure out is, how to store the names of the restaurant long term. I suppose I could do it as a text file, but is there anyway to store them internally?
What I want to do is create a program that will allow someone to enter in the names of restaurants, store them and then randomly pick one when a button is clicked.
The UI is pretty simple, I have a text box and a button to save the text that is entered, and then a button to pick a random restaurant and display it in a message box.
The thing I'm trying to figure out is, how to store the names of the restaurant long term. I suppose I could do it as a text file, but is there anyway to store them internally?
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You need a way of storing persistant data.
Your choices are as follow:
Text File
Database
Registry
For what you want to do? File. The Logic is as follows:
Open Program->Checks for file->If there is one, loads up the data->If there isn't, creates it
Enter Restaurant->Add name to data structure and File
Button Clicked->Randomly pick an index and find which restaurant it belongs too
There is 3 of us that goes out for lunch 2 times a week, and we would always have trouble all agreeing on a restaurant, so I created the "Restaurant Randomizer" We entered in a bunch of different restaurants, added types, and if it was a buffet or not.
Then added a filter, so say we all felt like indian or chinese but a non buffet, we would select those two from the filter, chose non-buffet, and click the "Random" button.
The only problem, was that it would pick a restuarant, and we would all disagree, and end up clicking the Random button multiple times, and eventually even with the randomizer we ended up going back to the same problem we started with..
Now we each just take turns in picking and the other 2 people are not allowed to disagree, works great.
XML will give you more flexibility if you want to store more then just names.
took out her barrettes and her hair spilled out like rootbeer
This. XML is the way to go for something small like this.
Naw, XML doesn't give anymore flexibility than a delimited text file. What it does give is portability of data. Depending on his environment and skill level (close to 0 admittedly), I'd say a very bad idea.
Last I checked, dealing with XML files was still a giant pain in the sphincter. LINQ probably changed this but I haven't kept up on that aspect of .NET unfortunately.
Or that maybe it'd be a good thing to learn parsing and tokenization just like learning how to add and subtract before you get a calculator.
Just my opinion though.