Visual Basic 2008 Programmer's Reference

Description

Providing programmers and developers of all skill levels with a comprehensive tutorial and reference to Visual Basic (VB) 2008, Microsoft MVP Rod Stephens presents a broad, solid understanding of essential topics on the latest version of VB. He explains the forms, controls, and other objects that VB furnishes for building applications in a modern windows environment. Plus, he examines the powerful development environment that makes VB such a productive language, and he delves into the VB language itself to show you how to use it to perform an array of important development tasks.

  Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

CONTENTS:

Acknowledgments.

  
Introduction.

  Part I: IDE.

  
Chapter 1: Introduction to the IDE.

  
Chapter 2: Menus, Toolbars, and Windows.

  
Chapter 3: Customization.

  
Chapter 4: Windows Form Designer.

  
Chapter 5: WPF Designer.

  
Chapter 6: Visual Basic Code Editor.

  
Chapter 7: Debugging.

  Part II: Getting Started.

  
Chapter 8: Selecting Windows Forms Controls.

  
Chapter 9: Using Windows Forms Controls.

  
Chapter 10: Windows Forms.

  
Chapter 11: Selecting WPF Controls.

  
Chapter 12: Using WPF Controls.

  
Chapter 13: WPF Windows.

  
Chapter 14: Program and Module Structure.

  
Chapter 15: Data Types, Variables, and Constants.

  
Chapter 16: Operators.

  
Chapter 17: Subroutines and Functions.

  
Chapter 18: Program Control Statements.

  
Chapter 19: Error Handling.

  
Chapter 20: Database Controls and Objects.

  
Chapter 21: LINQ.

  
Chapter 22: Custom Controls.

  
Chapter 23: Drag and Drop, and the Clipboard.

  
Chapter 24: UAC Security.

  Part III: Object-Oriented Programming.

  
Chapter 25: OOP Concepts.

  
Chapter 26: Classes and Structures.

  
Chapter 27: Namespaces.

  
Chapter 28: Collection Classes.

  
Chapter 29: Generics.

  Part IV: Graphics.

  
Chapter 30: Drawing Basics.

  
Chapter 31: Brushes, Pens, and Paths.

  
Chapter 32: Text.

  
Chapter 33: Image Processing.

  
Chapter 34: Printing.

  
Chapter 35: Reporting.

  Part V: Interacting with the Environment.

  
Chapter 36: Configuration and Resources.

  
Chapter 37: Streams.

  
Chapter 38: File-System Objects.

  
Chapter 39: Windows Communication Foundation.

  
Chapter 40: Useful Namespaces.

  Part VI: Appendices.

  
Appendix A: Useful Control Properties, Methods, and Events.

  
Appendix B: Variable Declarations and Data Types.

  
Appendix C: Operators.

  
Appendix D: Subroutine and Function Declarations.

  
Appendix E: Control Statements.

  
Appendix F: Error Handling.

  
Appendix G: Windows Forms Controls and Components.

  
Appendix H: WPF Controls.

  
Appendix I: Visual Basic Power Packs.

  
Appendix J: Form Objects.

  
Appendix K: Classes and Structures.

  
Appendix L: LINQ.

  
Appendix M: Generics.

  
Appendix N: Graphics.

  
Appendix O: Useful Exception Classes.

  
Appendix P: Date and Time Format Specifiers.

  
Appendix Q: Other Format Specifiers.

  
Appendix R: The Application Class.

  
Appendix S: The My Namespace.

  
Appendix T: Streams.

  
Appendix U: File-System Classes.

  
Appendix V: Index of Examples.

  
Index.