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Visual Basic .NET Power Tools

ISBN: 0782142427
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2003
Pages: 178

Authors: Evangelos Petroutsos, Richard Mansfield

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• 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
• 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
• Using Sockets
• The TCPChat Application
• Interacting with Web Resources
• Summary
• Chapter 13 Advanced Web Services
• Creating a Web Service
• Consuming a Web Service
• Preserving State
• Making a Database Connection
• Implementing WSDL
• UDDI: The Registry
• Testing a Published Web Service
• Security Considerations
• Chapter 14 Building Asynchronous Applications With Message Queues
• Queues and Messages
• The MessageQueue Class
• The Message Class
• Acknowledgments and Time-Outs
• Processing Orders with Messages
• Message Queuing Triggers
• Summary
• Chapter 15 Practical ADO.NET
• The Command Class
• Working with DataSets
• Insert and Update Operations
• Summary
• Chapter 16 Building Middle-Tier Components
• Remoting the Business Logic
• Using COM Applications in .NET
• Summary
• Chapter 17 Exploring XML Techniques
• Choosing SAX
• Deeper into DOM
• Using Namespaces in XML
• The Explosion of Schemes
• Programmatic XML
• XML and DataSets
• Persisting with SOAP
• More Interchangeability
• Summary
• Chapter 18 Designing Data-Driven Windows Applications
• The NWProducts Application
• The Application s Interface
• An Invoicing Application
• The Relations Application
• The Relations1 Project
• Summary
• Chapter 19 Working with Regular Expressions
• Writing Regular Expressions
• The RegularExpressions Class
• The Elements of a Regular Expression
• Advanced Topics in Regular Expressions
• The RegularExpressions Project
• The Visual grep Project
• Summary
• Chapter 20 Advanced Graphics
• The PlotControl
• A Fractal Generator
• Complex Number Operations
• Summary
• Chapter 21 Designing the User Interface
• Windows Conventions
• Metallic Shading
• Sliding and Fading Transitions
• Summary
• Chapter 22 Using the .NET Compact Framework and Its Emerging Technologies
• What s Eliminated?
• Using the Simulator
• More New Features
• Mobile Security
• Debugging via Tracing
• Providing Friendly Error Messages
• Device Specificity
• Using Emulators
• Summary
• Index
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