Table of Contents | Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers (2nd Edition)

Visual Basic® 2005 for Programmers: Deitel® Developer Series, Second Edition
By Paul J. Deitel - Deitel & Associates, Inc., Harvey M. Deitel - Deitel & Associates, Inc.
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub Date: June 06, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-13-225140-X
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-225140-2
Pages: 1344

Table of Contents | Index

Chapter 1. Introduction to .NET, Visual Basic and Object Technology

Section 1.1. Introduction

Section 1.2. Microsoft's Windows® Operating System

Section 1.3. Visual Basic

Section 1.4. The Internet and the World Wide Web

Section 1.5. Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Section 1.6. Microsoft's .NET

Section 1.7. The .NET Framework and the Common Language Runtime

Section 1.8. Test-Driving a Visual Basic Application

Section 1.9. (Only Required Section of the Case Study) Software Engineering Case Study: Introduction to Object Technology and the UML

Section 1.10. Wrap-Up

Section 1.11. Web Resources

Chapter 2. Introduction to the Visual Basic Express 2005 IDE

Section 2.1. Introduction

Section 2.2. Overview of the Visual Studio 2005 IDE

Section 2.3. Menu Bar and Toolbar

Section 2.4. Navigating the Visual Studio IDE

Section 2.5. Using Help

Section 2.6. Using Visual Programming to Create a Simple Program that Displays Text and an Image

Section 2.7. Wrap-Up

Section 2.8. Web Resources

Chapter 3. Introduction to Visual Basic Programming

Section 3.1. Introduction

Section 3.2. Displaying a Line of Text

Section 3.3. Creating A Console Application in Visual Basic Express

Section 3.4. Displaying a Single Line of Text with Multiple Statements

Section 3.5. Adding Integers

Section 3.6. Arithmetic

Section 3.7. Decision Making: Equality and Relational Operators

Section 3.8. Using a Message Dialog to Display a Message

Section 3.9. (Optional) Software Engineering Case Study: Examining the ATM Requirements Document

Section 3.10. Wrap-Up

Section 3.11. Web Resources

Chapter 4. Introduction to Classes and Objects

Section 4.1. Introduction

Section 4.2. Classes, Objects, Methods and Instance Variables

Section 4.3. Declaring a Class with a Method and Instantiating an Object of a Class

Section 4.4. Declaring a Method with a Parameter

Section 4.5. Instance Variables and Properties

Section 4.6. Value Types and Reference Types

Section 4.7. Initializing Objects with Constructors

Section 4.8. Validating Data with Set Accessors in Properties

Section 4.9. (Optional) Software Engineering Case Study: Identifying the Classes in the ATM Requirements Document

Section 4.10. Wrap-Up

Chapter 5. Control Statements: Part 1

Section 5.1. Introduction

Section 5.2. Control Structures

Section 5.3. If...Then Selection Statement

Section 5.4. If...Then...Else Selection Statement

Section 5.5. While Repetition Statement

Section 5.6. Do While...Loop Repetition Statement

Section 5.7. Do Until...Loop Repetition Statement

Section 5.8. Compound Assignment Operators

Section 5.9. Counter-Controlled Repetition

Section 5.10. Sentinel-Controlled Repetition

Section 5.11. Nested Control Statements

Section 5.12. Nested Repetition Statements

Section 5.13. Visual Basic Programming in a Windows Application

Section 5.14. (Optional) Software Engineering Case Study: Identifying Class Attributes in the ATM System

Section 5.15. Wrap-Up

Chapter 6. Control Statements: Part 2

Section 6.1. Introduction

Section 6.2. Essentials of Counter-Controlled Repetition

Section 6.3. For...Next Repetition Statement

Section 6.4. Examples Using the For...Next Statement

Section 6.5. GradeBook Case Study: Select...Case Multiple-Selection Statement

Section 6.6. Do...Loop While Repetition Statement

Section 6.7. Do...Loop Until Repetition Statement

Section 6.8. Using the Exit Statement in Repetition Statements

Section 6.9. Using the Continue Statement in Repetition Statements

Section 6.10. Logical Operators

Section 6.11. (Optional) Software Engineering Case Study: Identifying Objects' States and Activities in the ATM System

Software Engineering Case Study Self-Review Exercises

Section 6.12. Wrap-Up

Chapter 7. Methods: A Deeper Look

Section 7.1. Introduction

Section 7.2. Modules, Classes and Methods

Section 7.3. Subroutines: Methods That Do Not Return a Value

Section 7.4. Functions: Methods That Return a Value

Section 7.5. Shared Methods and Class Math

Section 7.6. GradeBook Case Study: Declaring Methods with Multiple Parameters

Section 7.7. Notes on Declaring and Using Methods

Section 7.8. Method Call Stack and Activation Records

Section 7.9. Implicit Argument Conversions

Section 7.10. Option Strict and Data-Type Conversions

Section 7.11. Value Types and Reference Types

Section 7.12. Framework Class Library Namespaces

Section 7.13. Passing Arguments: Pass-by-Value vs. Pass-by-Reference

Section 7.14. Scope of Declarations

Section 7.15. Case Study: Random Number Generation

Section 7.16. Case Study: A Game of Chance

Section 7.17. Method Overloading

Section 7.18. Optional Parameters

Section 7.19. Recursion

Section 7.20. (Optional) Software Engineering Case Study: Identifying Class Operations in the ATM System

Section 7.21. Wrap-Up

Chapter 8. Arrays

Section 8.1. Introduction

Section 8.2. Arrays

Section 8.3. Declaring and Allocating Arrays

Section 8.4. Examples Using Arrays

Section 8.5. Case Study: Card Shuffling and Dealing Simulation

Section 8.6. Passing an Array to a Method

Section 8.7. For Each...Next Repetition Statement

Section 8.8. GradeBook Case Study: Using an Array to Store Grades

Section 8.9. Rectangular Arrays

Section 8.10. GradeBook Case Study: Using a Rectangular Array

Section 8.11. Variable-Length Parameter Lists

Section 8.12. Jagged Arrays

Section 8.13. Changing the Size of an Array at Execution Time: Using the ReDim Statement

Section 8.14. Passing Arrays: ByVal vs. ByRef

Section 8.15. (Optional) Software Engineering Case Study: Collaboration Among Objects in the ATM System

Section 8.16. Wrap-Up

Chapter 9. Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look

Section 9.1. Introduction

Section 9.2. Time Class Case Study

Section 9.3. Class Scope

Section 9.4. Default and Parameterless Constructors

Section 9.5. Time Class Case Study: Overloaded Constructors

Section 9.6. Partial Classes

Section 9.7. Composition

Section 9.8. Using the Me Reference to Access the Current Object

Section 9.9. Garbage Collection

Section 9.10. Shared Class Members

Section 9.11. Const and ReadOnly Members

Section 9.12. Object Browser

Section 9.13. Time Class Case Study: Creating Class Libraries

Section 9.14. (Optional) Software Engineering Case Study: Starting to Program the Classes of the ATM System

Section 9.15. Wrap-Up

Chapter 10. Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance

Section 10.1. Introduction

Section 10.2. Base Classes and Derived Classes

Section 10.3. Protected Members

Section 10.4. Relationship between Base Classes and Derived Classes

Section 10.5. Constructors in Derived Classes

Section 10.6. Software Engineering with Inheritance

Section 10.7. Class Object

Section 10.8. Friend Members

Section 10.9. Wrap-Up

Chapter 11. Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism

Section 11.1. Introduction

Section 11.2. Polymorphic Video Game

Section 11.3. Demonstrating Polymorphic Behavior

Section 11.4. Abstract Classes and Methods

Section 11.5. Case Study: Payroll System Class Hierarchy Using Polymorphism

Section 11.6. NotOverridable Methods and NotInheritable Classes

Section 11.7. Case Study: Creating and Using Interfaces

Section 11.8. (Optional) Software Engineering Case Study: Incorporating Inheritance and Polymorphism into the ATM System

Section 11.9. Wrap-Up

Chapter 12. Exception Handling

Section 12.1. Introduction

Section 12.2. Exception Handling Overview

Section 12.3. Example: Divide by Zero Without Exception Handling

Section 12.4. Example: Handling DivideByZeroExceptions and FormatExceptions

Section 12.5. .NET Exception Hierarchy

Section 12.6. Finally Block

Section 12.7. Exception Properties

Section 12.8. User-Defined Exception Classes

Section 12.9. Wrap-Up

Chapter 13. Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part I

Section 13.1. Introduction

Section 13.2. Windows Forms

Section 13.3. Event Handling

Section 13.4. Control Properties and Layout

Section 13.5. Labels, TextBoxes and Buttons

Section 13.6. GroupBoxes and Panels

Section 13.7. CheckBoxes and RadioButtons

Section 13.8. PictureBoxes

Section 13.9. ToolTips

Section 13.10. NumericUpDown Control

Section 13.11. Mouse-Event Handling

Section 13.12. Keyboard-Event Handling

Section 13.13. Wrap-Up

Chapter 14. Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 2

Section 14.1. Introduction

Section 14.2. Menus

Section 14.3. MonthCalendar Control

Section 14.4. DateTimePicker Control

Section 14.5. LinkLabel Control

Section 14.6. ListBox Control

Section 14.7. CheckedListBox Control

Section 14.8. ComboBox Control

Section 14.9. TreeView Control

Section 14.10. ListView Control

Section 14.11. TabControl Control

Section 14.12. Multiple Document Interface (MDI) Windows

Section 14.13. Visual Inheritance

Section 14.14. User-Defined Controls

Section 14.15. Wrap-Up

Chapter 15. Multithreading

Section 15.1. Introduction

Section 15.2. Thread States: Life Cycle of a Thread

Section 15.3. Thread Priorities and Thread Scheduling

Section 15.4. Creating and Executing Threads

Section 15.5. Thread Synchronization and Class Monitor

Section 15.6. Producer/Consumer Relationship without Thread Synchronization

Section 15.7. Producer/Consumer Relationship with Thread Synchronization

Section 15.8. Producer/Consumer Relationship: Circular Buffer

Section 15.9. Multithreading with GUIs

Section 15.10. Wrap-Up

Chapter 16. Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions

Section 16.1. Introduction

Section 16.2. Fundamentals of Characters and Strings

Section 16.3. String Constructors

Section 16.4. String Indexer, Length Property and CopyTo Method

Section 16.5. Comparing Strings

Section 16.6. Locating Characters and Substrings in Strings

Section 16.7. Extracting Substrings from Strings

Section 16.8. Concatenating Strings

Section 16.9. Miscellaneous String Methods

Section 16.10. Class StringBuilder

Section 16.11. Length and Capacity Properties, EnsureCapacity Method and Indexer of Class StringBuilder

Section 16.12. Append and AppendFormat Methods of Class StringBuilder

Section 16.13. Insert, Remove and Replace Methods of Class StringBuilder

Section 16.14. Char Methods

Section 16.15. Card Shuffling and Dealing Simulation

Section 16.16. Regular Expressions and Class RegEx

Section 16.17. Wrap-Up

Chapter 17. Graphics and Multimedia

Section 17.1. Introduction

Section 17.2. Drawing Classes and the Coordinate System

Section 17.3. Graphics Contexts and Graphics Objects

Section 17.4. Color Control

Section 17.5. Font Control

Section 17.6. Drawing Lines, Rectangles and Ovals

Section 17.7. Drawing Arcs

Section 17.8. Drawing Polygons and Polylines

Section 17.9. Advanced Graphics Capabilities

Section 17.10. Introduction to Multimedia

Section 17.11. Loading, Displaying and Scaling Images

Section 17.12. Animating a Series of Images

Section 17.13. Windows Media Player

Section 17.14. Microsoft Agent

Section 17.15. Wrap-Up

Chapter 18. Files and Streams

Section 18.1. Introduction

Section 18.2. Data Hierarchy

Section 18.3. Files and Streams

Section 18.4. Classes File and Directory

Section 18.5. Creating a Sequential-Access Text File

Section 18.6. Reading Data from a Sequential-Access Text File

Section 18.7. Case Study: A Credit-Inquiry Program

Section 18.8. Serialization

Section 18.9. Creating a Sequential-Access File Using Object Serialization

Section 18.10. Reading and Deserializing Data from a Sequential-Access Text File

Section 18.11. Wrap-Up

Chapter 19. Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Section 19.1. Introduction

Section 19.2. XML Basics

Section 19.3. Structuring Data

Section 19.4. XML Namespaces

Section 19.5. Document Type Definitions (DTDs)

Section 19.6. W3C XML Schema Documents

Section 19.7. (Optional) Extensible Stylesheet Language and XSL Transformations

Section 19.8. (Optional) Document Object Model (DOM)

Section 19.9. (Optional) Schema Validation with Class XmlReader

Section 19.10. (Optional) XSLT with Class XslCompiledTransform

Section 19.11. Wrap-Up

Section 19.12. Web Resources

Chapter 20. Database, SQL and ADO.NET

Section 20.1. Introduction

Section 20.2. Relational Databases

Section 20.3. Relational Database Overview: Books Database

Section 20.4. SQL

Section 20.5. ADO.NET Object Model

Section 20.6. Programming with ADO.NET: Extracting Information from a Database

Section 20.7. Querying the Books Database

Section 20.8. Programming with ADO.NET: Address Book Case Study

Section 20.9. Using a DataSet to Read and Write XML

Section 20.10. Wrap-Up

Section 20.11. Web Resources

Chapter 21. ASP.NET 2.0, Web Forms and Web Controls

Section 21.1. Introduction

Section 21.2. Simple HTTP Transactions

Section 21.3. Multitier Application Architecture

Section 21.4. Creating and Running a Simple Web-Form Example

Section 21.5. Web Controls

Section 21.6. Session Tracking

Section 21.7. Case Study: Connecting to a Database in ASP.NET

Section 21.8. Case Study: Secure Books Database Application

Section 21.9. Wrap-Up

Section 21.10. Web Resources

Chapter 22. Web Services

Section 22.1. Introduction

Section 22.2. .NET Web Services Basics

Section 22.3. Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

Section 22.4. Publishing and Consuming Web Services

Section 22.5. Session Tracking in Web Services

Section 22.6. Using Web Forms and Web Services

Section 22.7. User-Defined Types in Web Services

Section 22.8. Wrap-Up

Section 22.9. Web Resources

Chapter 23. Networking: Streams-Based Sockets and Datagrams

Section 23.1. Introduction

Section 23.2. Connection-Oriented vs. Connectionless Communication

Section 23.3. Protocols for Transporting Data

Section 23.4. Establishing a Simple TCP Server Using Stream Sockets

Section 23.5. Establishing a Simple TCP Client Using Stream Sockets

Section 23.6. Client/Server Interaction with Stream-Socket Connections

Section 23.7. Connectionless Client/Server Interaction with Datagrams

Section 23.8. Client/Server Tic-Tac-Toe Using a Multithreaded Server

Section 23.9. WebBrowser Class

Section 23.10. .NET Remoting

Section 23.11. Wrap-Up

Chapter 24. Data Structures

Section 24.1. Introduction

Section 24.2. Primitive-Type Structures; Boxing and Unboxing

Section 24.3. Self-Referential Classes

Section 24.4. Linked Lists

Section 24.5. Stacks

Section 24.6. Queues

Section 24.7. Trees

Section 24.8. Wrap-Up

Chapter 25. Generics

Section 25.1. Introduction

Section 25.2. Motivation for Generic Methods

Section 25.3. Generic Method Implementation

Section 25.4. Type Constraints

Section 25.5. Overloading Generic Methods

Section 25.6. Generic Classes

Section 25.7. Notes on Generics and Inheritance

Section 25.8. Wrap-Up

Chapter 26. Collections

Section 26.1. Introduction

Section 26.2. Collections Overview

Section 26.3. Class Array and Enumerators

Section 26.4. Non-Generic Collections

Section 26.5. Generic Collections

Section 26.6. Synchronized Collections

Section 26.7. Wrap-Up

Appendix A. Operator Precedence Chart

Appendix B. Number Systems

Section B.1. Introduction

Section B.2. Abbreviating Binary Numbers as Octal and Hexadecimal Numbers

Section B.3. Converting Octal and Hexadecimal Numbers to Binary Numbers

Section B.4. Converting from Binary, Octal or Hexadecimal to Decimal

Section B.5. Converting from Decimal to Binary, Octal or Hexadecimal

Section B.6. Negative Binary Numbers: Two's Complement Notation

Appendix C. Using the Visual Studio 2005 Debugger

Section C.1. Introduction

Section C.2. Breakpoints and the Continue Command

Section C.3. The Locals and Watch Windows

Section C.4. Controlling Execution Using the Step Into, Step Over, Step Out and Continue Commands

Section C.5. Other Features

Section C.6. Wrap-Up

Appendix D. ASCII Character Set

Appendix E. Unicode®

Section E.1. Introduction

Section E.2. Unicode Transformation Formats

Section E.3. Characters and Glyphs

Section E.4. Advantages/Disadvantages of Unicode

Section E.5. Unicode Consortium's Web Site

Section E.6. Using Unicode

Section E.7. Character Ranges

Appendix F. Introduction to XHTML: Part 1

Section F.1. Introduction

Section F.2. Editing XHTML

Section F.3. First XHTML Example

Section F.4. W3C XHTML Validation Service

Section F.5. Headers

Section F.6. Linking

Section F.7. Images

Section F.8. Special Characters and More Line Breaks

Section F.9. Unordered Lists

Section F.10. Nested and Ordered Lists

Section F.11. Web Resources

Appendix G. Introduction to XHTML: Part 2

Section G.1. Introduction

Section G.2. Basic XHTML Tables

Section G.3. Intermediate XHTML Tables and Formatting

Section G.4. Basic XHTML Forms

Section G.5. More Complex XHTML Forms

Section G.6. Internal Linking

Section G.7. Creating and Using Image Maps

Section G.8. meta Elements

Section G.9. frameset Element

Section G.10. Nested framesets

Section G.11. Web Resources

Appendix H. XHTML Special Characters

Appendix I. XHTML Colors

Appendix J. ATM Case Study Code

Section J.1. ATM Case Study Implementation

Section J.2. Class ATM

Section J.3. Class Screen

Section J.4. Class Keypad

Section J.5. Class CashDispenser

Section J.6. Class DepositSlot

Section J.7. Class Account

Section J.8. Class BankDatabase

Section J.9. Class Transaction

Section J.10. Class BalanceInquiry

Section J.11. Class Withdrawal

Section J.12. Class Deposit

Section J.13. Module ATMCaseStudy

Section J.14. Wrap-Up

Appendix K. UML 2: Additional Diagram Types

Section K.1. Introduction

Section K.2. Additional Diagram Types

Appendix L. Primitive Types

Additional Primitive Type Information

CD-ROM Warranty

Index