This tutorial is a continuation of “Book Finder Using Visual Basic.Net and MS Access 2007”. At this time, we’re going to learn how to put a Quick search. By using a quick search, we can save more time by specifying the title of a specific book, author, Dewey number and subject.

To start with this tutorial, add a new textbox and name it as “txtquick” and a label, and change the text property to “Quick Search”. Then add two buttons and the first one name it as “btnquick” and change the text property into “Use Quick Search” and the second one name it as “btntxtbox”, and change the text property to “Use Text Box Filter”. And the user interface after designing will look like as shown below.



This time, we are now going to add functionality to our program. To do this double click the main form. And the following code below our “con.ConnectionString”.
This code will only disable the “Use Quick Search” button and hide the “txtquick” textbox.

1. btntxtbox.
   
   Enabled
   
   =
   
   False
   
2. txtquick.
   
   Visible
   
   =
   
   False
   

Then double click the “btnquick” button and add the following code:

The purpose of this code it will on show the “txtquick” and disable other textbox and change the back color into aqua color.

1. txtquick.
   
   Visible
   
   =
   
   True
   
2. btnquick.
   
   Enabled
   
   =
   
   False
   
3. btntxtbox.
   
   Enabled
   
   =
   
   True
   
4. txttitle.
   
   Enabled
   
   =
   
   False
   
5. txtauthor.
   
   Enabled
   
   =
   
   False
   
6. txtdewey.
   
   Enabled
   
   =
   
   False
   
7. txtsubj.
   
   Enabled
   
   =
   
   False
   
8. txttitle.
   
   BackColor
   
   =
   
   Color.
   
   Aqua
   
9. txtauthor.
   
   BackColor
   
   =
   
   Color.
   
   Aqua
   
10. txtdewey.
    
    BackColor
    
    =
    
    Color.
    
    Aqua
    
11. txtsubj.
    
    BackColor
    
    =
    
    Color.
    
    Aqua
    

And it looks like as shown below.



Then to do the opposite, double click the “Use Text box Filter”, and add the following code:

1. 
   
2. txtquick.
   
   Visible
   
   =
   
   False
   
3. btnquick.
   
   Enabled
   
   =
   
   True
   
4. btntxtbox.
   
   Enabled
   
   =
   
   False
   
5. txttitle.
   
   Enabled
   
   =
   
   True
   
6. txtauthor.
   
   Enabled
   
   =
   
   True
   
7. txtdewey.
   
   Enabled
   
   =
   
   True
   
8. txtsubj.
   
   Enabled
   
   =
   
   True
   
9. txttitle.
   
   BackColor
   
   =
   
   Color.
   
   Lime
   
10. txtauthor.
    
    BackColor
    
    =
    
    Color.
    
    Lime
    
11. txtdewey.
    
    BackColor
    
    =
    
    Color.
    
    Lime
    
12. txtsubj.
    
    BackColor
    
    =
    
    Color.
    
    Lime
    

And it looks like as shown below:



And finally double click the “txtquick” textbox and add the following code:
When the text is changed, it will automatically populate the datagridview and the user can view a result easily.

1. Private
   
   Sub
   
   txtquick_TextChanged(
   
   ByVal
   
   sender As
   
   System.
   
   Object
   
   , ByVal
   
   e As
   
   System.
   
   EventArgs
   
   )
   
   Handles
   
   txtquick.
   
   TextChanged
   
2. 'we set her our SQL statements
   
3. sql =
   
   "Select * from book_profile where title like '%"
   
   &
   
   txtquick.
   
   Text
   
   &
   
   "%' or author LIKE '%"
   
   &
   
   txtquick.
   
   Text
   
   &
   
   "%'"
   
4. 
   
5. dt =
   
   New
   
   DataTable
   
6. Try
   
7. 'open the connection
   
8. con.
   
   Open
   
   (
   
   )
   
9. 'bind the SQL and the connection through OleDBDataAdaoter and stored to da
   
10. da =
    
    New
    
    OleDb.
    
    OleDbDataAdapter
    
    (
    
    sql, con)
    
11. 'and whatever the value of da will be fill into dt our imaginary data table
    
12. da.
    
    Fill
    
    (
    
    dt)
    
13. 'get the datasource of datagridview from our data table
    
14. dtgresult.
    
    DataSource
    
    =
    
    dt
    
15. 
    
16. Catch
    
    ex As
    
    Exception
    
17. 'will throw an error if something went wrong.
    
18. MsgBox
    
    (
    
    ex.
    
    Message
    
    , MsgBoxStyle.
    
    Information
    
    )
    
19. End
    
    Try
    
20. 'close connection
    
21. con.
    
    Close
    
    (
    
    )
    
22. End
    
    Sub
    

You can now press “F5” to test your program.

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