Programming Visual Basic 2005

Description:

This newest programming guide by bestselling author Jesse Liberty isn't your typical Visual Basic book. It's not a primer on the language, and it won't dull your brain with arguments hyping .NET either. Its goal, rather, is to make you immediately productive, creating Windows and Web applications using Visual Basic and its associated tools.

Written for experienced Visual Basic programmers (from either a VB6 or VB .NET background), the book shows how Visual Basic 2005 can be used to rapidly build modern web applications and new "Smart Client" applications, which combine the power of individual computers with network data resources to deliver a rich interactive experience. You'll also learn the details of building robust object-oriented applications, and a host of especially dangerous pitfalls to avoid when programming with Visual Basic 2005.

What makes this book different is what's not included. There's no introduction to Visual Basic, no explanation of how it fits into the .NET world. Why waste time reading about something you'll learn for yourself as soon as you start creating applications? You won't even write a "Hello World" program. With Jesse Liberty, you'll get started building something useful.

The book is divided into three separate parts--Building Windows Applications, Building Web Applications, and Programming with Visual Basic--each of which could be a book on its own. The author shares his thorough understanding of the subject matter through lucid explanations and intelligently designed lessons that guide you to increasing levels of expertise. By the time you've finished the book, you'll know how to program with VB 2005.

Jesse Liberty's books have successfully guided thousands of programmers into the world of .NET programming, and Programming Visual Basic 2005 will be no exception. This book is sure to become a key component in the libraries of .NET developers.

 

 

Table of Contents:

Preface

Part I. Building Windows Applications

1. Design and First Forms

     The Requirements

     Getting Started

     Creating the Customer Detail Page

     Summary

2. Data Access

     Adding Data to the Customer Page

     Using the Details View to Create the Detail Form

     Modify the Display with Events

3. Cool Controls

     Adding a Menu and Toolbar

     Displaying Web Documents

     Masked Text Box

     Printing a Document

     Copying Files Using Tree Views

4. Custom Controls

     Custom Controls

     Design

     Building the Controls

     Using the Custom Controls

5. GDI+ and Drawing

     The Graphics Class

     Implementing the Control

6. Mice and Fonts

     Click the Mouse

7. Legacy COM Controls

     Importing ActiveX Controls

     Importing COM Components

Part II. Building Web Applications

8. Web Application, Design, and First Forms

     Understanding Web Forms

     Getting Started

     Adding Controls

     State

     Lifecycle

     Directives

9. Validation Controls

     The RequiredFieldValidator

     Client-Side Evaluation

     The Summary Validator

     The Compare Validator

     Range Checking

     Regular Expressions

     Custom Validation

     Validation Groups

10. Master Pages and Navigation

     Creating Master Pages

     Navigation

11. Web Data Access

     Getting Data from a Database

     Multiuser Updates

     The DataList Control

12. Personalization

     Implementing Forms-Based Security

     Add Roles to ASP.NET Accounts

     Create Personalized Web Sites

     Personalize with Complex Types

     Anonymous Personalization

     Themes and Skins

     Web Parts

     Enabling Editing and Layout Changes

13. Custom Controls

     User Controls

     Custom Controls

14. Web Services

     Platform Independence

     How Web Services Work

     Creating a Web Service

     WebMethod Properties

     Testing Your Web Service

     Writing the Client

Part III. Programming with Visual Basic 2005

15. Visual Studio 2005

     Start Page

     Projects and Solutions

     The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

     Building and Running

16. Visual Basic 2005 Fundamentals

     Types

     Variables

     Whitespace

     Statements

     Branching

     Iteration Statements

     Operators

17. Using Collections and Generics

     Arrays

     Generics

     Queues

     Stacks

     Dictionaries

18. Object-Oriented Visual Basic 2005

     Defining Classes

     Instantiating Objects

     Scope

     The Heap

     Access Modifiers

     Method Arguments

     Constructors

     Initializers

     Copy Constructors

     Using Shared Members

     Destroying Objects

     Overloading Methods and Constructors

     Encapsulating Data with Properties

     Specialization and Generalization

     Inheritance

     Polymorphism

     Abstract Classes

     The Root of All Classes: Object

     Boxing and Unboxing Types

     Interfaces

     Interfaces Versus Abstract Base Classes

     Defining an Interface

     Implementing an Interface

Index