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How to Choose and Set Up a Business Phone System

Hello friends, I hope you all are doing great. In today's tutorial, I am gonna show you How to Choose and Set Up a Business Phone System. Normally engineers like to be an entrepreneur and if you wanna start your own business then its essential to have a Business Phone Number. To maintain the success of your business, having a relevant and structured phone system will help your business grow. Here are the ways on how to choose and set up a business phone system.

Choosing Your Business Phone System

Before you can begin setting up, it is important that you take the time on choosing what type of phone system works for you. If you are starting a new or small business, every call you receive is important and could be the make or break to the success of your business. There are a variety of routes you can go down such as choosing a virtual phone system which typically relies on the use of mobile phones or a fully equipped phone system for an office environment.

Setting Up

If you have decided on going with a provider, it is important you do your research into which is the best for you. The next step to take is to sign up and pick a number for your new phone system. If you have an old number that you wish to keep, most providers will give you the option to retain it or have a brand-new number. For example, if you have a large customer base who have your old number, it may be worth to stick with it. Companies such as Simple 1300 Numbers give you the option of having a new number for a low monthly price.

The Manual Way

Whilst many may be put off by going down the DIY route, it can be very straightforward if you have your resources at hand should you have a problem. There are a variety of phone systems that you can purchase but most importantly, the main tools you will need are electricity sockets and an ethernet port. This is because your phone system will also need to be connected to the internet so calls and messages can be transferred through your co-workers. If you feel confident in setting up yourself, the whole process can be done within 30 minutes. If you have any problems, a manual booklet is usually provided to help assist you.

Recording Messages

Once you have your phone system all set up and running, it is important that you and your team record voice messages and custom greetings. A custom greeting will be the first thing your clients hear when they call your business, so it is essential that you deliver your greeting in a clear and professional manner. However, before you record your messages, ensure that you call another member of your team to ensure that the phone system is working correctly, and your voice can be clearly heard.

Adding Extensions

One of the most vital steps in setting up your phone business is creating extensions. Regardless of whether your team is small or large, you will also need to be connected to the same server, so you can easily communicate and direct calls and messages to one another. Setting up extensions is straightforward and is the last step you need to take before you start receiving calls. If you require more assistance or want to know more about how to manually set up a phone system, make sure you research thoroughly online where you will be able to find the help and guidance you need.

C# LinkLabel Control

Hey Everyone! Hope you all are doing great and enjoying your lives. My job is to keep you updated with useful information that helps you excel in your relevant field. Today, I am going to give the details on the C# Linklabel Control. This control allows you to display a hyperlink. It exhibits all the properties given by C# Label Control but it is explicitly used for displaying useful information on the hyperlink. I'll try to cover each and every aspect related to C# Linklabel Control so you don't need to go anywhere for finding the information regarding this control. Let's hop on the board and dive in the details of this control and explore its properties step by step.

C# LinkLabel Control

• C# Linklabel Control is used to display hyperlink to provide useful information.
• In order to create C# Linklabel control, open the windows form application and go to Toolbar appearing on the left side.
• Find the Linklabel control, drag and drop it over the Form.

• You can play with it and move it around over the Form with the help of mouse.
• There is another way of creating the Linklabel control. Just double click on the Linklabel control, it will automatically place the Linklabel control on the Form.

Linklabel Control Properties

• In order to set the Linklabel control properties, just right click on the Linklabel control and go to properties.
• Properties window will appear on the right side of the windows form application.
• Linklabel control comes with different useful properties including, name, autosize, text, size, font, fontcolor, back color etc. Let's discuss them one by one. Following window will appear as click on the properties.

Name and Text Properties

• Name property defines the specific name of the control that is used to access it in the code. In the figure above, Linklabel control name is linkLabel1.
• Similarly, text property is used to display the descriptive text on the link. You can go to properties and change the name manually or you can change it in a code as well.
• Following code can be used to change the text of the Linklabel Control.

 private void linkLabel1_LinkClicked(object sender, LinkLabelLinkClickedEventArgs e)
        {
         
            linkLabel1.Text = "this is label one";
        }

BackColor, BorderStyle, ForeColor Properties

• BackColor property is used to change the background color of the linklable control.
• BorderStyle is used to give linklable control a specific border style around the link text. It comes with two border styles including FixedSingle, Fixed 3D.
• ForeColor is used to change the forecolor of the linklabel control.

Font, AutoSize and TextAlign Properties

• Font property shows the font style of the text that can be used in linklabel control. When you go to properties, and click on Font property, it shows different font styles, size and
• AutoSize property is used to change the size of the linklable control. By default the value of AutoSize property is true, when it is true, you can not change the size of the linklable. When it is set to false, you can change the size of linklabel.
• Similarly, TextAlign property is used to align the linklabel text in the linklable control. It comes with 9 different options to align the text at different place on the linklabel control.

Image and ImageAlign Properties

• Image property is used to set the background of the linklabel control as an image.
• Similarly, ImganAlign property is used to align the image on the background of the linklabel control.

 Color Properties

• LinkColor property shows the color of the link in linklabel control.
• LinkVisited property comes with two states true and false. When it is false, color of the link won't be changed once the link is visited. When it is set true, the color of the link will change once the link is visited.
• VisitedLinkColor property shows the color of the visited link. By default purple color is set to the VisitedLinkColor property.
• ActiveLinkColor property represents the color when you put the cursor on the link and click. The color appears before you fully clicked the link is ActiveLinkColor.

Example 1

• We are going to build a program which will allow the linklabel to open some website.
• In order to do this, open the windows form application and drag and drop the linklabel from the Toolbar to Form.
• Double click on the linklabel, following figure will appear.

• Now add "using System.Diagnostics" in the code just like the shown in the figure below.

• Now add following code in your application. When you run the application, and click on the link, it will allow the link to open the google website.

        private void linkLabel1_LinkClicked(object sender, LinkLabelLinkClickedEventArgs e)
        {
            Process.Start("www.google.com");
        }

That's all for today. Thanks for reading the article. We always love when you keep coming back for what we have to offer. If you have any question you can ask me in the comment section below. I'd love to help you according to best of my expertise. Stay Tuned!

C# ListView Control

Hi Guys! Hope you are doing great. Our mission is to give you valuable knowledge related to your field so you keep coming back for what we have to offer. Today, I am going to unlock the details on the C# ListView Control. It displays useful information about list of items by using various views available in the control. You can also have a look at LinkLabel and DateTimePicker that I have discussed previously. I'll try to cover every aspect related to ListView Control so you get a clear idea about this control and you don't need to go anywhere else for finding the information regarding this control. Let's get started.

C# ListView Control

• C# ListView Control is used to display list of items by using various views available in the control.
• It is very useful in developing the applications where you want the data to be arranged in the form of list.
• Creating a ListView Control in Windows Form Application is very easy.
• Simply open the windows form application and drag the listview control from the ToolBar to Form.
• You can also create it by double clicking the listview control on the ToolBar, it will automatically place the listview control on the Form. Once you create the listview control it will look like the figure below.

• You can change its location with the help of mouse.
• Once you click on the little arrow available on the top right corner, it will appear like the figure below.

• Here you can see the ListView Tasks from where you can add items, columns, groups in the list and can change the view of the list that comes with different view options including largeicon, smallicon, list, title.

ListView Properties

• LlistView control comes with lots of different properties which you can modify manually.
• In order to open the properties window, right click on the listview control on the Form and go to properties windows.

• Once you open the properties windows, it will appear like the figure below which comes with different available properties.

Name

• Go to properties window and find property "Name" which specifies the unique name of the control which is used to access it in the the main code.

Location and Size Properties

• Location property represents the starting point of the listview control on the main Form. In other words, it represents the coordinates of the upper left corner of the control relative to the upper left corner of the container.
• Size property defines the size of listview control on the main Form. You can put the width and length on the size property or you can increase the size of the control by clicking the lower right corner of the control and expanding it towards right side.

ForeColor and BackColor Propeties

• ForeColor represents the forecolor of the listview control on the main Form.
• BackColor property represents the background color of the listview control.
• You can change both forecolor and backcolor manually by simply going to the properties window by right clicking on the listview control or you can change them by the help of code. Following lines can be used to change fore and back color in the code.

            listView1.BackColor = Color.Brown;
            listView1.ForeColor = Color.Blue;

View, GridLines, FullRowSelect Properties

• View property comes with 5 options to view the data on the list. FullRowSelect Property allows the cursor to select all add appearing in single row.
• Similarly, if you set GridProperty property as true, it will put the grid lines on the listview control. Following lines can be used to access these properties in the code.

listView1.View = View.Details;
listView1.GridLines = true;
listView1.FullRowSelect = true;

Items and CheckBoxes Properties

• Items property is very useful in this control that allows you to add items one by one. You can add items manually through this control but better way is using proper code to add items in the listview control.
• You can use these lines to add items in the code

  ListViewItem lv1 = new ListViewItem("Adnan Aqeel");
            lv1.SubItems.Add("123 main street");
            lv1.SubItems.Add("25");
            listView1.Items.Add(lv1);

• First we create  three columns naming name, address and age and set the view to details. Then we add above lines in the main code by double clicking the listview control.
• CheckBoxes property allows you to add checkbox in the listed item. By default checkboxes property is false, set this property as true in order to add checkboxes of items in the control.

LabelEdit and HoverSelection Properties

• LabelEdit is very handy as it allows you to change the text of the items available in the list.
• Set this property as true in order to change the text of the items manually.
• However, you can also change text of the items dynamically in the code.
• HoverSelection property is used to make the item selected when someone hover the mouse on it.
• Set this property true in order to make the item selected over hovering the mouse over it.

HotTracking and Alignment Properties

• HotTracking property allows you to underline the text of the item and make it prominent when someone hovers mouse over the item in the list. Set this property as true in order to make this property useful.
• Alignment property is very useful that allows you to align the items in the list properly. It comes with four options including default, left, top, SnapToGird.

Columns and Groups Properties

• Columns property is very important property of the control that allows you to add the columns in the list. This property becomes handy when you are using the Details view of the control.
• Groups property allows you to distinguish the classes of items distinctively.

How to Add Columns in the ListView Control

• There are two ways to add columns in the listview control. First method is adding the columns manually in the list or other methods is adding columns with the help of code.
• In order to add column manually, click on the arrow appearing on the top right corner of the listview control and click on "Edit Columns".
• Once you click on the Edit Columns, following figure will appear.
• Click on the add button in order to add column in the listview.
• In the "text" property you can set the name of your own choice that will appear on the column of listview control. 
• Or you can add the column using following lines in the code.

• listView1.Columns.Add("ProductName", 100);

• From the lines above, you can see this code comes with two arguments in which first arguments represents the column heading and other represents the column width.

Example 1

• Let's create a code for which we add items on the list step by step by the add button, then we remove the selected data from the delete button and then clear all data from the clear button in the windows form application.
• When we add one panel, three buttons, three textboxes, three labels and one listview on the main form, it will look like a figure below.

• Following is the code to run this application to add items in the list step by step and remove it or clear it completely.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication20
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void btnAddRecord_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            ListViewItem lv1 = new ListViewItem(txtStudentName.Text);
            lv1.SubItems.Add(txtFatherName.Text);
            lv1.SubItems.Add(txtRegistrationNo.Text);

            lvRecord.Items.Add(lv1);
        }

        private void btnDeleteSelected_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            lvRecord.Items.Remove(lvRecord.SelectedItems[0]);
        }

        private void btnClearAll_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            lvRecord.Items.Clear();
        }
    }
}

• Following figure shows the code in Visual Studio.

• Here's a short video in which I have shown How to use C# ListView Control:

That's all for today. I hope you have enjoyed the article and got to know the features of listview control. We always love when you visit our website to resolve your issues related to engineering. However, if still you feel any doubt or have any question you can ask me in the comment section below. I'd love to help you according to best of my expertise. Stay Tuned!