windows forms Application

Question

Part 1: Programming – Hotel Room Sales Application

1.1 Problem Statement

The current pandemic has seen most hotels in the Pacific Islands on the verge of closure. The locals have been encouraged to support the tourism industry and its workers. While some locals have supported the industry by staying and spending in hotels, you have volunteered to assist a small hotel develop a sales application.

You have to design and implement a simple windows application that helps the receptionist generate a quote for a hotel room sale for a family’s one night stay in the hotel. You have to choose an appropriate name for your application. The hotel has 3 types of rooms only and provides buffet breakfast and dinner for a fee. Apart from internet, entertainment and spa services, all other hotel amenities are free of charge.

1.2 Program Specifications:

As per the scenario, you will create a windows based application program that will calculate the total sales amount for staying in a hotel based on the customer’s preferences. The cost of the staying in the hotel for a night is dependent on several factors as shown below:

1. Room Type

2. Meal

a. Breakfast

b. Dinner

3. Amenities

a. Internet

b. Entertainment – Pay movies

c. Spa Services

The following table illustrates the respective charges;

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Item | Price

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Room Type Luxury | $210

Superior | $150

Standard | $110

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Meal Options Buffer Breakfast | $40

Buffer Dinner | $60

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Amenities internet | $10

Entertainment – pay movies | $20

Spa Services | $50

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1.3 Assignment Requirements:

1. Design an appropriate User Interface, using appropriate controls to capture only the required information from the users in order to calculate the cost of hotel stay.

2. Calculate the cost of a hotel stay for a night based on room type, including purchase of additional optional options (meals, amenities if any)

3. Your application should also display the current date and time along with an image for each room type selected respectively.

4. Display the final cost of the hotel stay in an appropriate control in the form of a quotation. The cost breakdown should be formatted appropriately.

5. This assignment is to be done using Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 Express Edition

Answer 1

OK

I have uploaded the following files and documents. They are found in the RESOURCES

section under this link.

(1) A text file named HOTEL RESERVATIONS.txt

It contains the controls that are on the UI form, along with the settings and configurations.

(2) A picture snapshot of the UI form.

(3) the Form1.vb which contains ALL of the CODE

(4) 3 picture files that were required for the room type buttons; there are THREE (3)

image files used by this project: Standard.jpg, Superior.jpg, and Luxury.jpg.

I am not allowed to upload zip files, source code files, or any other type of files

other than plain text files. Source code files must be embedded in another document

and file name and extension with .dat or .txt or something that Wyzant shall allow...

The entire project is absolutely out of the question

Some other notes:

(1) rather than the application handling the date/time clock every single second, the

clock updates every minute. Therefore, I set the timer to 60000; MUCH LESS

strain on the system and application

(2) You must be told how many guests for the breakfast and dinner buffets. I used

the spin button for that; the specs said nothing at all about it which is a design issue.

(3) Not sure what pictures you wanted, so I just went into PC Paint and used an IMAGE

of the words "STANDARD", "SUPERIOR", and "LUXURY" is various fonts. These

images replace the text caption property of the radio button, and ultimately end up

in the RESOURCES section of the project. You can change these

pictures, but then YOU must change the text caption property on the radio buttons.

(4) And most importantly, the UI form shrinks,expands to hide/display the results. I did NOT

want to complicate the app by using multiples forms. More compact UI is better anyway.

The specs did not say the results had to be on a separate form, just special controls. If I

had my choice, I'd just dump the report to a file and open it with a DOS shell call

This is the best I can do for you now, outside of questions, which I am happy to entertain.

Otherwise the project will have to be sent via email or disk.

Best of luck!

Patrick