Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Programmer's Cookbook

Filled with the code recipes that developers need, this is the logical place to start building development projects or to learn more about Visual Basic .NET

With a generous helping of code examples, code snippets, and solutions to common development problems—direct from expert programmers—this guide is the logical place for intermediate and advanced developers to start building development projects or learn more about Visual Basic .NET. It uses the “cookbook” technique—providing code plus instructions on how to use each recipe—so developers can quickly apply the code to their own projects or simply play around with the ingredients to learn more about Visual Basic .NET.

Table of Content

Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction	xvii
1  Strings and Regular Expressions	1
1.1  Combine Strings	2
1.2  Retrieve a Portion of a String	4
1.3  Create a String Consisting of a Repeated Character	5
1.4  Change the Case of All Characters in a String	5
1.5  Perform Case-Insensitive String Comparisons	6
1.6  Iterate Over All the Characters in a String	7
1.7  Parse a String Into Words	8
1.8  Find All Occurrences of Specific Text in a String	11
1.9  Replace All Occurrences of Specific Text in a String	13
1.10  Pad a String for Fixed-Width Display	14
1.11  Reverse a String	16
1.12  Insert a New Line in a String	17
1.13  Insert a Special Character in a String	18
1.14  Manipulate Strings Quickly with StringBuilder	19
1.15  Convert a String into a Byte Array	21
1.16  Get a String Representation of a Byte Array	23
1.17  Use Common Regular Expressions	25
1.18  Validate Input with a Regular Expression	29
1.19  Find All Occurrences of a Pattern in a String	30
1.20  Replace All Occurrences of a Pattern in a String	32
1.21  Manipulate a Filename	34
1.22  Manipulate a URI	35
1.23  Validate a Credit Card with Luhns Algorithm	37
1.24  Validate an ISBN	38
1.25  Perform a SoundEx String Comparison	39

 

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