Monday Sept 22 -- sending me your projects, working with keyboard events and sound

Greetings, O most mighty of all VB coders! Today, we are going to do two pretty darned important things:

A) We will learn how to zip up your projects and send them to Mr. LaRue as email attachments

B) We will learn about using keyboard events in VB, and making things happen in response to those events

Let's do A) first

Here is what you need to do:

1) Unless you went out of your way to change where you save your files, you probably have a "Projects" folder associated with VB. It's located inside the "Visual Studio 2005" folder inside of the "My Documents" folder.

2) Inside of the "Projects" folder, you will find a separate folder for each project. It might be called "WindowsApplication1" or "buttonAction" or whatever you named your project when you first created it.

3) You will want to copy this folder to your desktop

4) Once you've done this, you should be able to create a new "zip" file by right clicking on the desktop then clicking in the menu where it says "new" then "winzip file". Name this zip file after yourself

5) drag the project folder onto the zip folder

6) when the menu pops up, click the ADD button

7) send this zip file to me as an email attachment

Once you've done that, we will work on using keyboard events and sound. I have some lovely handouts for that :-)

Cheers,
Mr. L

PS We may not need them today, but I have some sounds associated with a project which I will be demonstrating to you. The sounds are bundled in a winzip file found here:
http://www.box.net/shared/n19oryovx2