PRACTICAL EXAMINATION

QUESTION PAPER

Winforms
Set 05

Semester: 3 Curriculum: ACCP

Date: 27/11/2005 Duration: 2 Hours
Total Marks: 30

Important to students
Read carefully the following instructions before doing your work on the examination. Your
work will NOT be accepted for evaluation UNLESS it conforms to all the instructions.

Students must create a folder named <Roll-Number> in the specified location (e.g.
d:\Online) and save all necessary files (including source, class, html, database, txt,
sql, ...) in the created folder, do not classify into sub-folders. All other locations will
be ignored.

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Question:
You are required to develop the following modules of an online messenger system: [30]

• MDI Form with Toolbar: The toolbar will have the following buttons:
• Compose Message: To load Send Message Form
• Check Messages: To load or reload message inbox form.
• Close Message Box: To unload message listing form.
• Log out: To exit the application.

• Login Form: This start up form, as shown in Figure 1, accepts login name and
password and performs the user authentication. The user should not be able to
use the application, if user authentication is failed.

Figure 1

• Message List Form: This form is loaded immediately after the successful logon
and will list all the messages addressed to the current user as shown in Figure
2.

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 Figure 2

• Compose Form: This form is used to compose and send message as shown in
Figure 3

Figure 3

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Notes:
• The user can use only one form at a time. So when a form is loaded, the tool
buttons to load other forms must be disabled.

• It should be ensured that none of the input fields are left blank before
sending a message by clicking on the Send button

• The database tables to be used for the above application are listed below:

Database name: MSGDATA

Table: MsgUsers
Column Description
UserName Login name
Password Password
FullName Full name of the user

Table: MsgBox
Column Description
MsgID Message ID – Identity column
MsgFrom Message from - user name
MsgTo Message to - user name
MsgSub Subject line
MsgBody Body of the message
MsgDate Message date

• The database must be created in SQL server, and student must generate the
script of creating tables and write down script to insert data into tables. All
scripts must be submitted in the file <Student Number>.SQL and save in the
submitted folder.

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