Creating An Accounting Application With C#- Part Two

This article is the second part of the series of "Creating Accounting Application swith C#". If you have not read the first part, please have a look at it before continuing.

• Creating Accounting Application With C# - Part One

In the previous article, we discussed some fundamental accounting principles and about downloading and installing Visual Studio in the system. In this article, finally, we are starting the development.

Topics covered in this article

1. Multiple Document Interface (MDI)
2. MenuStrip
3. ToolStrip
4. ToolTip
5. StatusStrip
6. ContextMenuStrip

Multiple Document Interface

A Multiple Document Interface (MDI) is a graphical user interface in which multiple windows reside under a single parent window.  An example of MDI is given below.

While in the case of single document interface (SDI) where all windows are independent of each other, we get the SDI as given below.

In our project, the main window is the MDI Parent and most of the windows are MDI children. And we will also use SDI.

By default, a new window is in SDI format. For changing it to MDI, we need to modify the Form property isMdiContainer to True.

 

By adding the following code in Form Load event, you can change the form to MDI Container while running the application.

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) {
    //For changing the form to MDI Container.
    this.IsMdiContainer = true;
}

Menu Strip

You can drag and drop the MenuStrip control from ToolBox.

What is MenuStrip and for what purpose are we using this control?  In Windows Form applications, MenuStrip is used as the navigation menu. To open other forms (like Sales Invoice and Sales Return Invoice), we useMenuStrip. To know more about MenuStrip, please click on the link 

Add the following items to the MenuStrip.

Company	Masters	Sales	Purchase	Inventory	Accounts
Admin Settings	Accounts Group	Sales Invoice	Purchase Invoice	Packing	Payment
Company Details	Account Creation	Sales Estimate	Purchase Return	Stock Adjust	Receipt
Financial Year	Product Group	Sales Return	Purchase Order	Damage Entry	Bank Deposit
Selected FY	Product Creation	Sales Order	Bill Print	Stock Transfer	Bank Withdrawal
Lock Application	Brand	Sales Quotation		Product Editing	Journal Entry
Log Off	Unit	Sales View		Combination	Opening Balance
Exit	Godown	Bill Print		Barcode Design	Debit Note
	Shelf				Credit Note
	Price Category				Bank Reconciliation
	Tax Category				Post Dated Check Receivable
	Route				Post Dated Check Payable
	Vehicle
	Employee Details

Report	Inventory Report	Accounts Report	Tools	Help
Sales Report	Stock Report	Accounts Ledger	Create User	About
Sales Return Report	Damage Stock Report	Cash Book	Change Password	Application Settings
Purchase Report	Expiry Stock Report	Day Book	User Privilege	Video Tutorial
Purchase Return Report	Godown Stock Report	Payment Register	Calculator	User Manual
Sales Order Report	Unsold Product Report	Receipt Register	Mail Settings	Contact Us
Sales Quotation Report	Product Flow Report	Journal Register	Remainder	Report Bugs
Sales Estimate Report	Product wise Sales Report	Trail Balance	Calendar	Activation
Purchase Order Report	Product wise Purchase Report	Trading Profit and Loss Account	Send Mail
Party List	Inventory Sales Register	Balance Sheet	Print Designer
Price List	Inventory Sales Return Register	GST Sales Report	Change Database
Account Payable And Receivable	Inventory Purchase Register	GST Purchase Report	Database Backup
Transaction Report	Inventory Purchase Return Register	GST-R1 Report	Day Close

ToolStrip

Like MenuStrip, we want to use ToolStrip control in the main form of the application. You can drag and drop the same from ToolBox.

Please change RenderMode property of ToolStrip control System, unless the ToolStrip button gets hidden when the mouse is over it.  Add seven ToolStripButtons.  Details are below:

• Sales
• Purchase
• Payment
• Receipt
• Ledger
• Product
• Stock Report
• Calculator
• Date Change
• Send Mail
• Bill Print
• Lock Application
• Refresh
• About
• Log Off
• Minimize
• Exit

You can change the background image of the button as shown in the picture by downloading it from the internet. To know more about ToolStrip control, please click the link.

ToolTip Control

After adding seventeen buttons to  theToolStrip menu, we have to add tooltip text to every button. 

In the picture, you can see the tooltip text given to the Calculator button. Now, let us see how we can apply this.

After dragging and dropping the tooltip control from the toolbox to the form, we have to change the tooltip text.

If you want to know more about this, please click the link.

StatusStrip

After adding MenuStrip and ToolStrip, we have to add StatusStrip to our main form to show current date and time and logged in user. We can drag and drop the control from Tool Box.

To know more about StatusStrip, you can click the link

ContextMenuStrip

And also, we want to add ContextMenuStrip by dragging and dropping from Tool Box to the form.

Add five items to it

• Refresh
• Change Background Color
• Change Background Image
• Log Off
• Exit

After adding the contextmenustrip to the form, please change the contextmenustrip property to the newly added one. Otherwise, this control may not work. If you want to know more about ContextMenuStrip, please click the link

Conclusion

I am not an expert in programming as well as accounting, however, I have some experience in the operation and creation of accounting software.  In this series, I am trying to convey some of my knowledge to you. If you find any mistake or have any suggestions, please feel free to share the same in the comment box.