account program

[oxtail75]

i was wondering if any of you had ever writen a acounts program before that will work out your tax decutions from your net income to give you the gross and any advice you have on writeing such a program would be appreciated
as a family member has asked me t write it for them and i have know idear ware to begin he would like in in visual basics

thank you in advance

[RobinVossen]

well, My Advice is "DO NOT write this in vb"
With a couple of reasons. Programs like this Whould be handy if they are Portable. So that it can be put on a USB and just run on every PC. In order to do that. You should write it in a Language like C++ or Perl. If you'd like it to be 100% Portable and Platform independent you should write this in Java or something.
VB requires some Library's of Windows.. and well i never want to relay on them.. If he wants to save stuff to a Database. Think of a way to do that BEFORE you start coding. MySQL is really usefull. But then you'd need MySQL on the PC. If you want it to connect to a Server to store the Database make sure its Secure! Since its Sensitive data. Also dont make it harder then it should be. People do that Quickly. just make it plain and simple.
Make the TAXes Variables. Since then if the Taxes change you wont have to recompile the program.

Well i hope I helped you a bit.

Good Luck with it..

Cheers,
Robin

[likwid]

Why not use something freely available? If you have no idea where to start, then doing this even in Java would be difficult.

[oxtail75]

define freely availble are you talking the language or something like gnucash and the reason he wants it in vb is he is still under the micorsoft spell which i can not seem to brake (stubborn git)

i am planing on relising a c++ verson under GPL

[likwid]

Freely available as in a program that's already written. I'm sure there are tons, even ones that run on Windows.

[oxtail75]

ok i will have a look