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Visual Basic 2008 Programmer's Reference

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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. Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments vi Introduction xxvii Part I: IDE 1 Chapter 1: Introduction to the IDE 3 Chapter 2: Menus, Toolbars, and Windows 15 Chapter 3: Customization 43 Chapter 4: Windows Form Designer 49 Chapter 5: WPF Designer 61 Chapter 6: Visual Basic Code Editor 71 Chapter 7: Debugging 87 Part II: Getting Started 101 Chapter 8: Selecting Windows Forms Controls 103 Chapter 9: Using Windows Forms Controls 121 Chapter 10: Windows Forms 149 Chapter 11: Selecting WPF Controls 175 Chapter 12: Using WPF Controls 187 Chapter 13: WPF Windows 223 Chapter 14: Program and Module Structure 237 Chapter 15: Data Types, Variables, and Constants 261 Chapter 16: Operators 307 Chapter 17: Subroutines and Functions 327 Chapter 18: Program Control Statements 353 Chapter 19: Error Handling 377 Chapter 20: Database Controls and Objects 401 Chapter 21: LINQ 457 Chapter 22: Custom Controls 493 Chapter 23: Drag and Drop, and the Clipboard 519 Chapter 24: UAC Security 537 Part III: Object-Oriented Programming 545 Chapter 25: OOP Concepts 547 Chapter 26: Classes and Structures 563 Chapter 27: Namespaces 605 Chapter 28: Collection Classes 619 Chapter 29: Generics 647 Part IV: Graphics 659 Chapter 30: Drawing Basics 661 Chapter 31: Brushes, Pens, and Paths 697 Chapter 32: Text 727 Chapter 33: Image Processing 745 Chapter 34: Printing 761 Chapter 35: Reporting 781 Part V: Interacting with the Environment 803 Chapter 36: Configuration and Resources 805 Chapter 37: Streams 837 Chapter 38: File-System Objects 849 Chapter 39: Windows Communication Foundation 873 Chapter 40: Useful Namespaces 885 Part VI: Appendices 909 Appendix A: Useful Control Properties, Methods, and Events 911 Appendix B: Variable Declarations and Data Types 923 Appendix C: Operators 931 Appendix D: Subroutine and Function Declarations 939 Appendix E: Control Statements 943 Appendix F: Error Handling 949 Appendix G: Windows Forms Controls and Components 951 Appendix H: WPF Controls 1035 Appendix I: Visual Basic Power Packs 1043 Appendix J: Form Objects 1047 Appendix K: Classes and Structures 1063 Appendix L: LINQ 1067 Appendix M: Generics 1077 Appendix N: Graphics 1081 Appendix O: Useful Exception Classes 1095 Appendix P: Date and Time Format Specifiers 1099 Appendix Q: Other Format Specifiers 1103 Appendix R: The Application Class 1109 Appendix S: The My Namespace 1113 Appendix T: Streams 1131 Appendix U: File-System Classes 1139 Appendix V: Index of Examples 1157 Index 1177

About the Author :
Rod Stephens started out as a mathematician, but while studying at MIT, discovered the joys of programming and has been programming professionally ever since. During his career, he has worked on an eclectic assortment of applications in such fields as telephone switching, billing, repair dispatching, tax processing, wastewater treatment, concert ticket sales, cartography, and training for professional football players. Rod is a Microsoft Visual Basic Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and ITT adjunct instructor. He has written 18 books that have been translated into half a dozen different languages, and more than 200 magazine articles covering Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, Delphi, and Java. He is currently a regular contributor to DevX ( www.DevX.com ). Rod ’ s popular VB Helper web site www.vb-helper.com receives several million hits per month and contains thousands of pages of tips, tricks, and example code for Visual Basic programmers, as well as example code for this book. Rod Stephens started out as a mathematician, but while studying at MIT, discovered the joys of programming and has been programming professionally ever since. During his career, he has worked on an eclectic assortment of applications in such fields as telephone switching, billing, repair dispatching, tax processing, wastewater treatment, concert ticket sales, cartography, and training for professional football players. Rod is a Microsoft Visual Basic Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and ITT adjunct instructor. He has written 18 books that have been translated into half a dozen different languages, and more than 200 magazine articles covering Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, Delphi, and Java. He is currently a regular contributor to DevX ( www.DevX.com ). Rod ’ s popular VB Helper web site www.vb-helper.com receives several million hits per month and contains thousands of pages of tips, tricks, and example code for Visual Basic programmers, as well as example code for this book.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780470281796
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Wrox Press
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470281790
  • Publisher Date: 13 Feb 2008
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 1225


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