Visual Basic 2005 with .NET 3.0 Programmer's Reference
byRod Stephens
Wrox Press 2007 (1200 pages)
ISBN:9780470137055
Offering useful tips, tricks, and language details, this comprehensive tutorial and reference will help you quickly learn how to develop Visual Basic programs that leverage the latest features of Vista and .NET 3.0.

Table of Contents
	Visual Basic 2005 with .NET 3.0 Programmer’s Reference
	Credits
	Introduction
	Part I - Getting Started
	Chapter 1	-	IDE
	Chapter 2	-	Controls in General
	Chapter 3	-	Program and Module Structure
	Chapter 4	-	Data Types, Variables, and Constants
	Chapter 5	-	Operators
	Chapter 6	-	Subroutines and Functions
	Chapter 7	-	Program Control Statements
	Chapter 8	-	Error Handling
	Chapter 9	-	Introduction to Windows Forms Controls
	Chapter 10	-	Forms
	Chapter 11	-	Database Controls and Objects
	Chapter 12	-	Custom Controls
	Chapter 13	-	Drag and Drop, and the Clipboard
	Chapter 14	-	UAC Security
	Part II - Object-Oriented Programming
	Chapter 15	-	OOP Concepts
	Chapter 16	-	Classes and Structures
	Chapter 17	-	Namespaces
	Chapter 18	-	Collection Classes
	Chapter 19	-	Generics
	Part III - Graphics
	Chapter 20	-	Drawing Basics
	Chapter 21	-	Brushes, Pens, and Paths
	Chapter 22	-	Text
	Chapter 23	-	Image Processing
	Chapter 24	-	Printing
	Chapter 25	-	Reporting
	Chapter 26	-	Windows Presentation Foundation
	Part IV - Interacting with the Environment
	Chapter 27	-	Configuration and Resources
	Chapter 28	-	Streams
	Chapter 29	-	File-System Objects
	Chapter 30	-	Windows Workflow Foundation
	Chapter 31	-	Windows Communication Foundation
	Chapter 32	-	Useful Namespaces
	Part V - Appendixes
	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	-	Standard Controls and Components
	Appendix H	-	WPF Controls
	Appendix I	-	Visual Basic Power Packs
	Appendix J	-	Form Objects
	Appendix K	-	Classes and Structures
	Appendix L	-	Generics
	Appendix M	-	Graphics
	Appendix N	-	Useful Exception Classes
	Appendix O	-	Date and Time Format Specifiers
	Appendix P	-	Other Format Specifiers
	Appendix Q	-	The Application Class
	Appendix R	-	The My Namespace
	Appendix S	-	Streams
	Appendix T	-	File-System Classes
	Index
	List of Figures

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With this completely up-to-date tutorial and reference, you'll quickly learn how to develop Visual Basic (VB) programs that leverage the latest features of Vista and .NET 3.0. The tutorial section walks you through VB.NET from scratch, providing you with in-depth descriptions of the development environment, basic program syntax, and standard controls. You'll also explore the fundamental concepts in object-oriented programming with VB.

In the comprehensive reference section, you'll find out how to take advantage of specific VB features. Expert Rod Stephens shows you how to draw images, use GDI+ routines, and generate printed output. You'll also discover how to build an application that interacts with its environment, save and load data in external sources, and use standard dialog controls. This approach makes it easier than ever to learn this powerful language and create your own dynamic programs.

What you will learn from this book

The best methods for mastering the new features of VB.NET
Steps for implementing custom controls and drag and drop
Ways to use trickier class issues such as private class scope, declaring events, and shared variables and methods
Strategies for creating new classes designed to work with specific data types
How to define an interface using XAML
Techniques for building service-oriented applications using the Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

Who this book is for

This book is for programmers at all levels who are either looking to learn Visual Basic .NET or have already mastered it and want some useful tips, tricks, and language details.

About the Author

Rod Stephens started out as a mathematician but, while studying at MIT, discovered the joys of programming and has been programming professionally ever since. During his career, he has worked on an eclectic assortment of applications in such fields as telephone switching, billing, repair dispatching, tax processing, wastewater treatment, concert ticket sales, and training for professional football players. He has written 16 books that have been translated into half a dozen different languages, and more than 200 magazine articles covering Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, Delphi, and Java. He is currently a regular contributor to DevX. His popular VB Helper web site receives several million hits per month and contains thousands of pages of tips, tricks, and example code for Visual Basic programmers, as well as example code for this book.

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