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Visual Basic 2005 with .NET 3.0 Programmer's Reference

ISBN: 470137053
EAN: N/A

Year: 2007
Pages: 417

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• Table of Contents
• Back Cover
• Visual Basic 2005 with .NET 3.0 Programmers Reference
• Credits
• Introduction
• Should You Use Visual Basic .NET?
• Introducing .NET Framework 3.0
• Who Should Read This Book
• How This Book Is Organized
• How to Use This Book
• Necessary Equipment
• Conventions
• The Books Web Site
• Errata
• p2p.wrox.com
• Part I: Getting Started
• Chapter 1: IDE
• Projects and Solutions
• IDE Overview
• Menus
• Toolbars
• Secondary Windows
• Toolbox
• The Visual Basic Code Editor
• Summary
• Chapter 2: Controls in General
• Controls and Components
• Creating Controls
• Properties
• Methods
• Events
• Summary
• Chapter 3: Program and Module Structure
• Code File Structure
• Typographic Code Elements
• Summary
• Chapter 4: Data Types, Variables, and Constants
• Data Types
• Type Characters
• Data Type Conversion
• Variable Declarations
• Option Explicit and Option Strict
• Scope
• Parameter Declarations
• Property Procedures
• Enumerated Data Types
• Constants
• Delegates
• Naming Conventions
• Summary
• Chapter 5: Operators
• Concatenation Operators
• Comparison Operators
• Logical Operators
• Bitwise Operators
• Operator Precedence
• Assignment Operators
• The StringBuilder Class
• Date and TimeSpan Operations
• Operator Overloading
• Summary
• Chapter 6: Subroutines and Functions
• Functions
• Property Procedures
• Summary
• Chapter 7: Program Control Statements
• Looping Statements
• Summary
• Chapter 8: Error Handling
• Structured Error Handling
• Visual Basic Classic Error Handling
• Structured versus Classic Error Handling
• The Err Object
• Debugging
• Summary
• Chapter 9: Introduction to Windows Forms Controls
• Choosing Controls
• Third-Party Controls
• Summary
• Chapter 10: Forms
• Transparency
• About, Splash, and Login Forms
• Mouse Cursors
• Icons
• Properties Adopted by Child Controls
• Property Reset Methods
• Overriding WndProc
• SDI and MDI
• MRU Lists
• Dialog Boxes
• Wizards
• Summary
• Chapter 11: Database Controls and Objects
• 64-bit Issues
• Automatically Connecting to Data
• Automatically Created Objects
• Other Data Objects
• Data Overview
• Connection Objects
• Transaction Objects
• Data Adapters
• Command Objects
• DataView
• DataRowView
• Simple Data Binding
• CurrencyManager
• Complex Data Binding
• Summary
• Chapter 12: Custom Controls
• Custom Controls in General
• Derived Controls
• Composite Controls
• Controls Built from Scratch
• Components
• Invisible Controls
• Picking a Control Class
• Controls and Components in Executable Projects
• Custom Component Security
• Summary
• Chapter 13: Drag and Drop, and the Clipboard
• Drag-and-Drop Events
• Using the Clipboard
• Summary
• Chapter 14: UAC Security
• Designing for UAC
• Elevating Programs
• Summary
• Part II: Object-Oriented Programming
• Chapter 15: OOP Concepts
• Encapsulation
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Overloading
• Summary
• Chapter 16: Classes and Structures
• Structures
• Heap and Stack Performance
• Class Instantiation Details
• Structure Instantiation Details
• Events
• Summary
• Chapter 17: Namespaces
• The Imports Statement
• The Root Namespace
• Making Namespaces
• Classes, Structures, and Modules
• Resolving Namespaces
• Summary
• Chapter 18: Collection Classes
• Arrays
• Collections
• Dictionaries
• CollectionsUtil
• Stacks and Queues
• Generics
• Summary
• Chapter 19: Generics
• Defining Generics
• Using Generics
• Predefined Generic Classes
• Summary
• Part III: Graphics
• Chapter 20: Drawing Basics
• Drawing Namespaces
• Graphics
• Drawing Events
• Summary
• Chapter 21: Brushes, Pens, and Paths
• Pen
• Brush
• GraphicsPath Objects
• Garbage-Collection Issues
• Summary
• Chapter 22: Text
• Drawing Text
• Text Formatting
• MeasureString
• Font Metrics
• Summary
• Chapter 23: Image Processing
• Bitmap
• Metafile Objects
• Summary
• Chapter 24: Printing
• Basic Printing
• Printing Text
• Centering Printouts
• Fitting Pictures to the Page
• Simplifying Drawing and Printing
• Summary
• Chapter 25: Reporting
• Report Objects
• Building a Report
• CrystalReportViewer
• Customizing a Report
• External Reports
• ReportDocument
• Summary
• Chapter 26: Windows Presentation Foundation
• Beta Warning
• WPF Concepts
• WPF in the IDE
• XAML Features
• Procedural WPF
• Documents
• Summary
• Part IV: Interacting with the Environment
• Chapter 27: Configuration and Resources
• My
• Environment
• Registry
• Configuration Files
• Resource Files
• Application
• Summary
• Chapter 28: Streams
• Stream
• FileStream
• MemoryStream
• BufferedStream
• BinaryReader and BinaryWriter
• TextReader and TextWriter
• StringReader and StringWriter
• StreamReader and StreamWriter
• OpenText, CreateText, and AppendText
• Custom Stream Classes
• Summary
• Chapter 29: File-System Objects
• Visual Basic Methods
• .NET Framework Classes
• My.Computer.FileSystem
• My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories
• Summary
• Chapter 30: Windows Workflow Foundation
• WF Features
• WF Activities
• A Sequential Example
• Workflow Code
• Summary
• Chapter 31: Windows Communication Foundation
• WCF Concepts
• WCF Example
• Summary
• Chapter 32: Useful Namespaces
• High-Level Namespaces
• Advanced Examples
• Summary
• Part V: Appendixes
• Appendix A : Useful Control Properties, Methods, and Events
• Methods
• Events
• Event Sequences
• Appendix B : Variable Declarations and Data Types
• Using
• Enumerated Type Declarations
• Option Explicit and Option Strict
• Data Types
• Data Type Characters
• Literal Type Characters
• Data Type Conversion Functions
• Appendix C : Operators
• Concatenation Operators
• Comparison Operators
• Logical Operators
• Bitwise Operators
• Operator Precedence
• Assignment Operators
• Date and TimeSpan Operators
• Operator Overloading
• Appendix D : Subroutine and Function Declarations
• Functions
• Property Procedures
• Appendix E : Control Statements
• Looping Statements
• Appendix F : Error Handling
• Throwing Exceptions
• Custom Exceptions
• Useful Exception Classes
• Classic Error Handling
• Appendix G : Standard Controls and Components
• Components Purposes
• Pointer
• BackgroundWorker
• BindingNavigator
• BindingSource
• Button
• CheckBox
• CheckedListBox
• ColorDialog
• ComboBox
• ContextMenuStrip
• DataGridView
• DataSet
• DateTimePicker
• DirectoryEntry
• DirectorySearcher
• DomainUpDown
• ErrorProvider
• EventLog
• FileSystemWatcher
• FlowLayoutPanel
• FolderBrowserDialog
• FontDialog
• GroupBox
• HelpProvider
• HScrollBar
• ImageList
• Label
• LinkLabel
• ListBox
• ListView
• MaskedTextBox
• MenuStrip
• MessageQueue
• MonthCalendar
• NotifyIcon
• NumericUpDown
• PageSetupDialog
• Panel
• PerformanceCounter
• PictureBox
• PrintDialog
• PrintDocument
• PrintPreviewControl
• PrintPreviewDialog
• Process
• ProgressBar
• PropertyGrid
• RadioButton
• ReportViewer
• RichTextBox
• SaveFileDialog
• SerialPort
• ServiceController
• SplitContainer
• Splitter
• StatusStrip
• TabControl
• TableLayoutPanel
• TextBox
• Timer
• ToolStrip
• ToolStripContainer
• ToolTip
• TrackBar
• TreeView
• VScrollBar
• WebBrowser
• Appendix H : WPF Controls
• Appendix I : Visual Basic Power Packs
• GotDotNet Power Packs
• Appendix J : Form Objects
• Methods
• Events
• Property-Changed Events
• Appendix K : Classes and Structures
• Structures
• Constructors
• Events
• Appendix L : Generics
• Appendix M : Graphics
• Drawing Classes
• Appendix N : Useful Exception Classes
• Custom Exception Classes
• Appendix O : Date and Time Format Specifiers
• Custom Format Specifiers
• Appendix P : Other Format Specifiers
• Custom Numeric Format Specifiers
• Numeric Formatting Sections
• Composite Formatting
• Enumerated Type Formatting
• Appendix Q : The Application Class
• Methods
• Events
• Appendix R : The My Namespace
• My.Computer
• My.Forms
• My.Resources
• My.User
• Appendix S : Streams
• Stream
• BinaryReader and BinaryWriter
• TextReader and TextWriter
• StringReader and StringWriter
• StreamReader and StreamWriter
• Console Streams
• Text File Stream Methods
• Appendix T : File-System Classes
• Framework Classes
• My.Computer.FileSystem
• My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories
• Index
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Z
• List of Figures