Visual Basic.Net by Example

 Visual Basic.NET by Example helps the reader learn Visual Studio.NET as well as how the language interacts with the .NET framework and other Visual Studio programming languages. Using this book, the reader will learn to build stand alone applications or applications and services which run within Microsoft's .NET Framework. This book explains each topic using real code examples to illustrate the VB.NET language and teaches in an easy-to-use tutorial manner.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

I. FIRST STEPS IN VISUAL STUDIO.NET ENVIRONMENT.

1. Overview of the Environment.
2. Creating the First Application.
3. Compiling and Running the Application.
4. Visual Basic .NET Project Types.

II. LANGUAGE BASICS.

5. Language Description.
6. Fundamental Data Types.
7. Data Conversion and Expressions.
8. Arrays, Enumerations, and Structures. Arrays. Enumerations. Structure Declaration. Using the Structured Data Types.
9. Control Statements.
10. Subroutines and Functions.
11. Introduction to Debugging and Exception Handling.
12. Microsoft .NET Framework-Assemblies and Namespaces.

III. WORKING WITH OBJECTS.

13. Objects and Classes-Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming.
14. Properties.
15. Methods.
16. Shared Class Members.
17. Inheritance.
18. Interfaces.
19. Collections.
20. Advanced OO Concepts.

IV. WORKING WITH FORMS AND CONTROLS.

21. Programming the User Interface-Fundamental Concepts.
22. Forms.
23. Controls.
24. Menus.
25. Program Flow Control in the User Interface.
26. Graphics Programming.
27. Printing.
28. Developing a Help System for the User Interface.

V. MANIPULATING DATA WITH AOD.NET+ AND XML.

29. Introducing Database Access with ADO.NET.
30. DataSets.
31. SQL Commands.
32. XML Data Access.
33. Reading XML.
34. Generating an XML Document.

VI. DEVELOPING FOR THE WEB.

35. Introduction to Web Forms.
36. Developing Applications for the Web.
37. Web Services.

VII. APPENDIXES.

Appendix A. UML Crash Course.
Index.