Course Project Devry University College Of Engineering

Course Project Devry Universitycollege Of Engineering And Informatio

This course project is designed to help you practice using your skills. Each week, you will learn important concepts. Then, you will apply these concepts to build a course project over the next seven weeks. The project will have a Graphical User Interface (GUI) instead of using the console, focusing on creating, updating, and maintaining song and video information for a lip sync contest application. You will first create a basic GUI, then develop an object-oriented project to manage song details, videos, and playlists, emphasizing fast performance and ease of updates.

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The core objective of this project is to develop a Windows Forms application that manages a collection of songs and associated videos for a lip sync contest. The application must facilitate adding, removing, displaying, and managing songs efficiently, with robust input validation and user-friendly interfaces. Over the course of the project, students will enhance their understanding of GUI controls, event-driven programming, data validation, and object-oriented design principles within C#.

Initially, the project emphasizes basic GUI control interaction, focusing on the addition of songs through a form. The GUI will include textboxes for song details such as title, artist, genre, year, and URL, along with buttons for adding songs and viewing all existing songs. The application will utilize ListBox controls to display and select songs, enabling users to interactively manage their playlist. Proper input validation is critical; for example, ensuring all form fields are filled before adding a song. This validation will be implemented using the string.IsNullOrEmpty method, and error messages will be displayed using MessageBox.Show.

In this phase, students will implement the event handler for the “Add Song” button. The handler will check each textbox for empty input, displaying an error message if any are blank, and preventing the addition. If all fields are correctly filled, the song details will be stored in the ListBox, and a confirmation message will be shown. This process reinforces understanding of conditional statements, message boxes, and list management within the Windows Forms environment.

The second phase of the project involves creating functionality to display all songs stored in the ListBox. A new button labeled “Show all songs” will trigger an event that loops through the ListBox items, concatenating their titles into a string displayed in the output textbox. This exercise develops expertise in list traversal and string manipulation, essential skills for managing collections of data within GUI applications.

Throughout the project, emphasis will be placed on consistent user interface design, proper control property settings (such as enabling horizontal scrollbar and scrollbar visibility), and logical event handling. Additionally, students are encouraged to implement features like editing or deleting songs, enhancing the program's functionality and robustness.

References

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