Tutorial $10-12$i

Adding the Membership $/$ Find Member function to the Karate School Manager

In this tutorial, you will add a form that lets users search for members by last name, You will use a partial string match, so if the user does not know the exact spelling of the member name, they can view a list of similar names.

Step $1$: Open the Karate School Manager project.

Step $2$: Add a new form to the project named FindMemberForm.vb$.$ Set its Text property to Find Member by Last Name. Set the form's size to $470$ by $300,$ and optionally set the form's Font.Size property to $10.$

Step $3$: In the MainForm form, double$-$click the Membership $/$ Find Member menu item and insert the following code in its event handler:

Create an instance of FindMemberForm

Dim frmF indilember As New FindHemberForm

Display the form.

frmFindMember, ShowDialog$()$

Step $4$: Add a MenuStrip control to the FindMemberForm form and create a File menu with one selection: Close. In this menu item's Clyok handler, insert the $Me,$Close$()$ statement,

Step $5$: Add a label, a text box named txtLastName, and a button named btnGo to the FindMemberForm form. Use Figure $10-57,$ shown earlier, as a guide.

Step $6$: Right$-$click inside the Data Sources window and select Add New Data Source from the popup menu. Add a new data source that uses the existing Karate database connection. Select the Members table, and name the dataset FindMemberDataSet. Figure $10-64$ shows the Data Source Configuration Wizard window, in which you name the dataset and select the Members table.