I am extremely new at SQL, Visual Studio, and C# in general and I'm really just looking for some guidance on how to proceed with a project I am working on. The application I need to create will have to check a number of machine parameter values against constants stored in a SQL database. The values for it to check will be entered in by the user. The application will then give feedback to the user as to weather or not the values he/she entered were valid or not. The app will also have to store a timestamp for each time it is used, and the results of the check as well. The first major difficulty I am having trouble wrapping my head around is that the number of values that need to be checked can vary greatly by which machine needs to be checked. My idea is a drop down menu of the possible machines that will determine the number of values the user needs to enter. I have created a very simple version of this application with no SQL server functionality. The drop down menu works, but it's very clunky since everything, including the check parameters, are hard coded in.
I've done some research on this but I really just dont know where to go or how to even begin tackling this. I'm sorry if it's too easy or has been posted about before. I did some research and didn't find anything too similar to what I need.
Any information is appreciated