Hello guys, I need a bit of help as I am very inexperienced with VB (learning it). I would like to write a prog that has a picture assigned to a day; ultimately assigning 365 pictures (one a day). I am very sketchy on how to even begin and was wondering if someone where kind enough to please explain to me how to start off and list me some of major commands I need. Note: this is not a school-related project. I want to give to someone. -Thanks a bunch, MD

how to start off Start by writing out a list of requirements that define its behavior. Once you do that, focus on how you expect the program to perform it. How will your app know when to change the wallpaper? Does it check the date? Where will this wallpaper list exist? As a flat file? As an XML file? (God forbid) in the app itself? How will the app run? On startup? As a scheduled task? Manually? Will it have a UI? If so, will it be a GUI? Text biased? You should go on like that, and work out the details. Once you do that, you can start worrying about the language.

OK: -This program will run on command (exe file-like). -It will not be a wallpaper. It will be a ___x___ frame that simply displays the picture within the program itself -The program will have to (I'm assuming) check the local PC date -The files will be .jpg/.bmp format. The source can simply be a folder or a .dat. If the pics are complied within the exe, it would just make it too large. -It's GIU will be simple in nature; just a frame with the pic, the date & time displayed and a simple text message that goes along with every picture (on the GIU, not a pop-up). -this may be a more advanced coding idea, but I think this is nice: when the day passes, arrows can be on the GUI, letting you see the pictures assigned to each date, but you can only access the ones that the date have passed. (e.g. you can only access the past shown pictures, not the ones for tomorrow, or after that). I think that about it as far as customizing goes. Now for the much harder part...coding :(

Well, let's talk about classes. At a bare minimum, you'll need the PictureBox class, something from DateTime, and probably some other object to read your picture list, which you apparently haven't decided on.