Simple data collector

Question

First off, its been years since I've written any code and that was 1st and 2nd year college programming classes with Visual Basic 6 (I still have the install CDs). So basically I remember only concepts of IF THEN ELSE, etc not the nuts and bolts of
writing the code :)
I am wanting to create a simple data collector for my photography business. I want the students to enter their names and emails into forms and the app to enter the info into an excel spreadsheet. When the student hits enter, the app prints a page with their
name in large letters which I include in their first shot (so later I can put a face with a name)
I have created a form that has the visual look of my desired app, I need help with the nuts and bolts...
Thanks so much for any help...   Tom

Answer 1

Tom,
When I'm done with this I'll zip up the project folder and upload it for you (if you want me to). That will be easier that copy/paste.
I have a start on it and a preliminary test so that you can see what I have here. I have namespace called "Student" and some classes in that namespace as shown on a
page of my website here.
The way that I have it set up, the parent's e-mail(s) is optional. If you want it to be mandatory I can make it that way, but you might want to re-think that - not all parents will have one. Anyway, the following shows my first test:
Option Strict On
Option Explicit On
Option Infer Off
Public Class Form1
Private studentList As New List(Of Students.StudentData)
Private Sub Form1_Load(sender As System.Object, _
e As System.EventArgs) _
Handles MyBase.Load
' Test it here
Try
Students.StudentData.AddNewStudent(studentList, _
"Frank", _
"Smith", _
Students.StudentData.StudentLevel.Senior, _
"[email protected]")
' Uncomment the following out and it will
' throw an exception about the e-mail being
' a duplicate:
'Students.StudentData.AddNewStudent(studentList, _
' "John", _
' "Doe", _
' Students.StudentData.StudentLevel.Graduate, _
' "[email protected]")
Students.StudentData.AddNewStudent(studentList, _
"Mary", _
"Jones", _
Students.StudentData.StudentLevel.UnderGrad, _
"[email protected]")
Students.StudentData.AddNewStudent(studentList, _
"Jim", _
"Anderson", _
Students.StudentData.StudentLevel.UnderGrad, _
"[email protected]", New String() _
{"[email protected]", _
"[email protected]"})
Students.StudentData.ExportToEncryptedXML(studentList)
Students.StudentData.ImportFromEncryptedXML(studentList)
Stop
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show(String.Format("An error occurred:{0}{0}{1}", _
vbCrLf, ex.Message), _
"Program Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, _
MessageBoxIcon.Warning)
End Try
End Sub
End Class
The XML file is saved into the program's Application Data folder which one of the classes automatically creates for you. Even if that were to be discovered, it wouldn't do anyone a lot of good.
This is what they'd find based on the data entered as shown above in my test.
Tell me your thoughts of this so far please?
Still lost in code, just at a little higher level.