Visual Basic .NET Power Tools - page 1
- Cover
- Cover
- Visual Basic .Net Power Tools
- Acknowledgments
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- Introduction
- Complexity and the Avant-Garde
- Who Should Read This Book, and Why?
- Chapter 1 Understanding the .NET Framework
- Why Read This Chapter
- Help
- Grappling with Framework Class Descriptions
- The Hunt for a Grammar
- Understanding Data Types
- Exploiting the Framework
- A Useful Class View Utility
- A Brief Lexicon
- Summary
- Chapter 2 New Ways of Doing Traditional Jobs
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- The Flexible ArrayList
- Using HashTables
- New DateTime Techniques
- File IO (Streaming)
- Form References: Communication Between Forms
- Loading Graphics with LoadPicture
- Random Numbers
- SendKeys
- Summary
- Chapter 3 Serialization Techniques
- How Serialization Works
- Creating Serializable Objects
- Custom Serialization
- Serializing SQL Server Data
- Summary
- Chapter 4 Leveraging Microsoft Office in Your Applications
- Using Word s Features
- Using Outlook Objects
- Accessing Excel
- Summary
- Chapter 5 Understanding .NET Security
- Security: An Overview
- Understanding Code-Access Security
- Managing .NET Security Policy
- Programming for Security
- Summary
- Chapter 6 Encryption, Hashing, and Creating Keys
- Encrypting
- Asymmetrical Encryption
- Summary
- Chapter 7 Advanced Printing
- Printer and Page Properties
- The Printing Dialog Boxes
- Page Layout and Printing
- Printing Plain Text
- Printing Tabular Data
- A PrintScreen Utility
- Summary
- Chapter 8 Upon Reflection
- Seeing Reflections
- Executing Discovered Code with CreateInstance and Invoke
- Emission
- Summary
- Chapter 9 Building Bug-Free and Robust Applications
- Debugging Techniques
- Summary
- Chapter 10 Deploying Windows Applications
- Installing the .NET Framework Runtime
- XCopy Deployment
- Internet Deployment
- Deploying with Windows Installer
- Summary
- Chapter 11 Building Data-Driven Web Applications
- Displaying Data on a WebForm
- Validation
- Sending Graphics
- Using HTML Controls
- Summary
- Chapter 12 Peer-to-Peer Programming
