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Visual Basic 2008 Programmer's Reference
Providing programmers and developers of all skill levels with a comprehensive tutorial and reference to Visual Basic (VB) 2008, Microsoft MVP Rod Stephens presents a broad, solid understanding of essential topics on the latest version of VB. He explains the forms, controls, and other objects that VB furnishes for building applications in a modern windows
environment. Plus, he examines the powerful development environment that makes VB such a productive language, and he delves into the VB language itself to show you how to use it to perform an array of important development tasks.
CONTENTS:
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Part I: IDE.
Chapter 1: Introduction to the IDE.
Chapter 2: Menus, Toolbars, and Windows.
Chapter 3: Customization.
Chapter 4: Windows Form Designer.
Chapter 5: WPF Designer.
Chapter 6: Visual Basic Code Editor.
Chapter 7: Debugging.
Part II: Getting Started.
Chapter 8: Selecting Windows Forms Controls.
Chapter 9: Using Windows Forms Controls.
Chapter 10: Windows Forms.
Chapter 11: Selecting WPF Controls.
Chapter 12: Using WPF Controls.
Chapter 13: WPF Windows.
Chapter 14: Program and Module Structure.
Chapter 15: Data Types, Variables, and Constants.
Chapter 16: Operators.
Chapter 17: Subroutines and Functions.
Chapter 18: Program Control Statements.
Chapter 19: Error Handling.
Chapter 20: Database Controls and Objects.
Chapter 21: LINQ.
Chapter 22: Custom Controls.
Chapter 23: Drag and Drop, and the Clipboard.
Chapter 24: UAC Security.
Part III: Object-Oriented Programming.
Chapter 25: OOP Concepts.
Chapter 26: Classes and Structures.
Chapter 27: Namespaces.
Chapter 28: Collection Classes.
Chapter 29: Generics.
Part IV: Graphics.
Chapter 30: Drawing Basics.
Chapter 31: Brushes, Pens, and Paths.
Chapter 32: Text.
Chapter 33: Image Processing.
Chapter 34: Printing.
Chapter 35: Reporting.
Part V: Interacting with the Environment.
Chapter 36: Configuration and Resources.
Chapter 37: Streams.
Chapter 38: File-System Objects.
Chapter 39: Windows Communication Foundation.
Chapter 40: Useful Namespaces.
Part VI: Appendices.
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: Windows Forms Controls and Components.
Appendix H: WPF Controls.
Appendix I: Visual Basic Power Packs.
Appendix J: Form Objects.
Appendix K: Classes and Structures.
Appendix L: LINQ.
Appendix M: Generics.
Appendix N: Graphics.
Appendix O: Useful Exception Classes.
Appendix P: Date and Time Format Specifiers.
Appendix Q: Other Format Specifiers.
Appendix R: The Application Class.
Appendix S: The My Namespace.
Appendix T: Streams.
Appendix U: File-System Classes.
Appendix V: Index of Examples.
Index.
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