Coding Techniques for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET

ISBN: 0735612544
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2002
Pages: 123

Authors: John Connell

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Cover
LOC Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Who This Book Is For
Learning Visual Basic .NET by Writing Working Programs
What s in Coding Techniques for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET?
About the Companion CD
Visual Basic .NET from the Ground Up
What a Long, Strange Trip It s Been
Why You Need to Learn Visual Basic .NET
What Are the Pieces and How Do They Fit Together? A .NET Framework Overview
Visual Basic .NET Is Object Oriented
A Brief Look at How the Visual Basic .NET Language Works
How Is a Visual Basic .NET Program Put Together?
Configuring the Interactive Development Environment
A First Look at the Visual Basic .NET IDE
A Closer Look at the Code
Nothing but .NET
Object-Oriented Programming in Visual Basic .NET
An Object Lesson
Starting Out with Objects
Inheritance
Enough Talk: Press F5 and Run Your Program
Using the Class View to Spy on Structure and Access Modifiers
Overloading Methods
Polymorphism
What s Controlling Our Form When We Run It?
Your First Real Visual Basic .NET Program
Conclusion
Writing Your First Class
Creating the Employee Class
The Employee Class Properties
More About Inheritance
Synchronizing the Class View
Creating Instances of the Employee Class
Conclusion: Object-Oriented Programming Demystified
Visual Basic .NET Data Types and Features
Getting to Know Data Types
Visual Basic .NET Data Types
Data Type Features
Garbage Collection: Getting Rid of Our Objects
Conclusion
Examining the .NET Class Framework Using Files and Strings
What Exactly Is the .NET Framework?
Learning to Find and Use What You Need
Examining the File Class
Streams
Using the File and StreamWriter Classes in the .NET Framework
Let s Talk Strings
Conclusion
Arrays and Collections in Visual Basic .NET
Building Your First Visual Basic .NET Array
Arrays in Action: A Roman Numeral Calculator
Visual Basic .NET Collections
Eliza and the Beginning of Artificial Intelligence
Conclusion
Handling Errors and Debugging Programs
What Can Possibly Go Wrong?
Types of Visual Basic .NET Errors
The Classic Visual Basic Err Object Is Gone in Visual Basic .NET
Try, Catch, and Finally
Setting a Breakpoint in Your Code
Running the Program Using the Debugger
The Call Stack
The Debug and Trace Classes
Adding Event Logging to Your Programs
Conclusion
Assemblies in Detail
The Right to Assemble
Reflection: How to Go About Examining Assemblies
The Assembly Spy Program
Self-Examination: Contemplating Our Own Assembly
New Variable Scoping in Visual Basic .NET
Conclusion
File System Monitoring
The File Sentinel Program
Introduction to Windows Services
Conclusion
Data Access with ADO.NET
From ADO to ADO.NET
A Closer Look at the Foundation of ADO.NET: The DataSet Object
Managed Providers in ADO.NET
Enough Talk, Let s Look at Some Code
Writing a Simple SQLClient Class DataSet Program
Conclusion
Data Sets in Detail
Looking Again at the ADO.NET Object Model
Data Sets and XML
Building the Data Set and XML Viewer Project
ADO.NET and XML
Persisting Our XML Information
Leveraging Our XML File for New Classes
Adding a Relationship to Our Program
Populating a Data Grid from a Persisted XML File
Hand Coding a Simple Program
Data Binding
Conclusion
ADO.NET Data Binding
The BindingContext Object
The CurrencyManager Object
A Simple Example
The DataTable, DataRow, and DataColumn Objects
Conclusion
ASP.NET and Web Services
A Look Back at ASP
Why ASP.NET?
Our First Web Form
Building a Loan Payment Calculator
Web Services: The New Marketplace
Building a Web Service
Conclusion
Visual Inheritance and Custom Controls
Visual Inheritance
Creating a Custom Control
Putting It Together: What We ve Learned So Far
Conclusion
Appendix
Using the Data Form Wizard
Generating a Crystal Report from a Data Source