Creating an HTML File List with VB - Setting Up Your Program

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1. Create a directory for your project files. I created one at /My Documents/VisualBasic/HTMLCatalog
2. If you haven’t already done so, start Visual Basic.
3. When you open the Visual Basic Integrated Development Environment (IDE) a form should appear. It usually defaults to Form1. Save it in your project folder as frmMain.frm by clicking (on the menu bar) File, Save Form1 As, navigate to the drive and folder, and enter frmMain, and click the Save button.

1. Save your project as HTMLCatalog.vbp by clicking File, Save Project As, and type HTMLCatalog, and click the Save button.

1. Click once on the form. If the properties are showing, you should see something like this:

1. In the name properties block, change it to frmMain.
2. Change the following properties:
   1. Caption to HTML Catalog
   2. Height to 2955
   3. Width to 6255
   4. StartupPosition to 1-Center (so that the form appears at the center of the screen on startup)

The form should look something like this:

1. On the tool bar (it defaults to the left side of the IDE), click the label tool (It has a capital A on it) and drag it to the form to create a label. In the properties, change the following:
   1. Name to lblLocation
   2. Caption to Location

1. Next to the label tool is the text box tool. Click it and drag it to the form to create a text box.
2. Change the properties to:
   1. Name to txtLocation
   2. Width to 3495
   3. Height to 285
   4. Text to the drive and path to the directory you will save your picture files, and the one the application will search and catalog. For this example I entered D:PICTURES
3. Below the text tool is the Command button. Click this tool and drag it to the form to create a command button. Change the properties to:
   1. Name to cmdCatalog
   2. Caption to Run Catalog

The form should look something like this:

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