This revision incorporates the latest.NET features. Intended for beginning to intermediate level Visual Basic programmers, it includes all of the hallmark features of the How to Program series: the Detiels' signature Live-CodeTM Approach, hundreds of programming tips and an extensive set of interesting exercises and substantial projects. - Learn from thousands of lines of code in hundreds of complete working programs! - From the basics to ADO.NET database development, XML programming, ASP.NET, Web Services, security, wireless applications, and much more! - Contains hundreds of real-world tips identifying good programming practices, common errors, performance optimization techniques, and debugging/reliability solutions.
Table of Contents:
(NOTE: Each chapter begins with an Introduction.)
Chapter 1 : Introduction to Computers, Internet and Visual Basic
Chapter 2: Introduction to Visual Basic Express 2005 IDE
Chapter 3: Introduction to Visual Basic Programming
Chapter 4: Introduction to Classes and Objects
Chapter 5: Control Statements: Part 1
Chapter 6: Control Statements: Part 2
Chapter 7: Procedures
Chapter 8: Arrays
Chapter 9: Object-Based Programming: Classes and Objects
Chapter 10: Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance
Chapter 11: Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism
Chapter 12: Exception Handling
Chapter 13: Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 1
Chapter 14: Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 2
Chapter 15: Multithreading
Chapter 16: Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions
Chapter 17: Graphics and Multimedia
Chapter 18: Files and Streams
Chapter 19: Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Chapter 20: Database, SQL and ADO.NET
Chapter 21: ASP.NET, Web Forms and Web Controls
Chapter 22: Web Services
Chapter 23: Networking: Streams-Based Sockets and Datagrams
Chapter 24: Data Structures
Chapter 25: Collections (Non-Generic)
Chapter 26: Generics and Generic Collections
Chapter 27: Other Topics
Appendix A: Operator Precedence Chart
Appendix B: Number Systems
Appendix C: Visual Studio .NET Debugger
Appendix D: ASCII Character Set
Appendix E: Unicode
Appendix F: Introduction to XHTML: Part 1
Appendix G: Introduction to XHTML: Part 2
Appendix H: HTML/XHTML Special Characters
Appendix I: HTML/XHTML Colors
About the Author :
Dr. Harvey Deitel is one of the world's leading computer science instructors and seminar presenters, and author of more than a dozen books. He worked on the pioneering operating system teams in industry and academia that developed many of the techniques at the heart of operating systems like UNIX®, Windows NT™ and OS/2™.
Paul Deitel has taught Visual Basic, Java, C and C++ at numerous hardware and software companies, including Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, Open Environment Corporation, Adra Systems, and Cambridge Technology Partners, and is himself an expert developer.
The Deitels are principals of Deitel & Associates, Inc., an international training organization specializing in Visual Basic, Java, C and C++, and object technologies.
