VB Project Planning - how do u do it?

Hi,

I have just finished building an Access database and am about to start building a VB front-end. However after weeks of developing a database from scratch, I now am totally daunted by the prospect of starting with a blank VB form.

I was wondering how everyone plans and initiates their VB projects from the offset? Anyone that can offer some advice on making the mountain look more like several bite-sized molehills will recieve mucho kudos from myself and I'd guess others who are about to embark on their next VB mission!

Cheers

Dan

well.. project planning and management is no joke. It takes a lot of analysis and logistics. Persionally, I like the Prt/Cpm model of project planning - basically, you plot out all of your major steps in a project in a flowchart style diagram. Then you work forwards through your steps to determine what your total project time will be. Once you have your starting times you work backward through the steps to determine which steps are absolutely reliant on the previous ones. This allows you to see the core actions of the project, and plan your time accordingly. Then, I take each individual action and try to break it down as much as possible into it's individual components. Once I have a structured hierarchy on paper... I start coding. It's a lot to do, but it helps planning a lot.

As far as structuring the design of the program's interface, I use the mantra from Networking - "Select the simplest device to get the job done"

As Fisherman said!
First,U must know what u will make.It comes from your customer and your mind..
Second,U should make a feasible plan which contains design plan,code plan,examine plan,Time plan.
Third,Design your project:it will take your a half of time to design carefully enoughed customer need.And execute your code work according design plan,with examining work continuously by the develope step..U maybe note to collect your code into a code library for hierarchy.
At last,U will be a profect code man with a lot of work and conquer a lot of difficulty..
Every day has a new starting!!U mast remember it!!!

Well... i just write down what i need, check for modules/classes i can use from previous work (such as filehandlers, database control etc...). then i create new ones (i.e. commport control, dataload from file to listbox, ...)

once done i make a model of what the program should do as in:
- the user click start -> do this and that
- the user wants this -> do that
- ...

from this i create all forms with all the necessary buttons and menu items and i start coding the most basic action (like file -> new in notepad), then the next one (like file -> save) and so on.