In this lesson we read in an XML File of Doctor Medical Appointments, and then Search Filter and Sort this data using a program defined Results Data Table.
Building the Search Coding Infrastructure is the main part of the Project and so we do this first, and just display the output in a series of Message Boxes in Version 1 of the Application.
We then build Version 2 of the Program which Sorts, Formats, and displays the Search Results in a Data Grid View.
We strongly recommend that you purchase and download the resources pack for this lesson, as the code is fairly long and needs to be structured correctly. Also included in the Resources Download is the input Doctor Appointments XML File.
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This Guide has all of the Design Principles and Theory behind what is being done at each stage of application development.
Included in the Resources Download for this lesson are Visual Basic Code Listings, Form Designs and the input XML File.
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Give these resources to your students and we think you will find that some of them will "get it" very quickly.
The other students need to watch the video for this lesson which goes through everything in full detail slowly step by step with repetition of examples.
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LESSON OVERVIEW
This lesson consists of a Video Presentation where we cover the following:
- Lesson Introduction
- Preview of Finished Program
- Learning Objectives
- Doctor Appointments XML File
- Starting the New Project and Form
- Multi-Step process to build Bound Data Grid View
- Setup and Add Bound DataGridView to Form
- Add and Modify Group Box for DataGridView
- Loading DataGridView using the XML File
- Fixing Date Format Program Crash Problem
- Fixing Boolean Data Program Crash Problem
- Fine Tuning the DataGridView Display
- Sorting DataGridView on one column
- Set up Search Data Options on Form
- Search 1 - Doctor Appointments
- Test the Doctor Name Search Msg Boxes
- Make Doctor Search Results DataGridView
- Cummulative Appended Search Results Problem
- Clearing the Results in between Searches
- Testing the Doctor Name Searches
- Sorting the Doctor Results on 2 Columns
- Add Drop Down List for Doctor Name
- Summary of Work Done So Far
- Setting Up Date Time Picker for Date
- Tips for Using the Date Picker
- Coding Doctor + Date Search
- Testing Doctor + Date Search
- Coding Unpaid Bills Search
- Challenge Task
- Doing our Website Programming Course
- Video Wrap Up and Outro
Watch the following YouTube Video Tutorial about Searching Sorting and Filtering XML Data.
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