POS/409 Individual: List Collections

Your software development company wants to continue developing and enhancing a software for internal use. The Software Development Company is now requesting that you change your data structure from an array to a .Net List.

For this week's assignment, the application is required to read from a file (data.txt) containing employees' data. Your tasks include:

• Use the data file from the previous week (data.txt)
• The C# data structure class/methods must demonstrate the use of object-oriented collections
• Implement an employee record objects List Collection
• Meet specifications by displaying on a Windows Form Application

Program Input File:

Using Visual Studio® and C# programming concepts, and using the previous data.txt file as your source file, write a program to meet the specifications of the company's request. The program should have the following characteristics:

• Compile and execute without errors
• Meet specifications by demonstrating file handling, List Collection data structure manipulation, and Windows Form output mastery by accomplishing the following:
  • Read employees' data from a file
  • Input the data into a List Collection data structure
  • Display the employees' data on the console
• Logic flow is clear, concise, and effective
• User inputs and outputs should be clear on screen
• Validation for input types and data format
• Appropriate indentation to logically illustrate program structure
• Identifiers logically describe use
• Naming conventions are consistent
• Comments and headers to explain processing that is not obvious