Visual Basic 2008 Programmer's Reference
Author: Rod Stephens
Visual Basic Orcas Programmer's Reference is a language tutorial and a reference guide to the upcoming Orcas release of Visual Basic. The tutorial provides basic material suitable for beginners but also includes in-depth content for more advanced developers.
The second part of the book is a reference that quickly allows programmers to locate information for specific language features. The entries in these appendices allow the reader to quickly review the details of important programming, objects, properties, methods, and events.
Visual Basic Orcas Programmer's Reference will be fully revised (30%) to cover the latest features of the Orcas release, including:
• Changes to variable declaration and initialization
• XLinq support for XML data types; query comprehensions for using SQL-like syntax to extract data from arrays and other data structures
• Extension methods for adding new features to existing classes
• Nested subroutines and functions
• Anonymous subroutines and functions ("lambda expressions")
• Nullable types
• Relaxed delegates
• Dynamic interfaces
• Dynamic identifiers
The author expects about 100 new pages of new examples covering these features; he will also extensively revise and retest all code to ensure compliance with the Orcas release.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments.Introduction.
Part I: IDE.
Chapter 1: Introduction to the IDE.
Chapter 2: Menus, Toolbars, and Windows.
Chapter 3: Customization.
Chapter 4: Windows Form Designer.
Chapter 5: WPF Designer.
Chapter 6: Visual Basic Code Editor.
Chapter 7: Debugging.
Part II: Getting Started.
Chapter 8: Selecting Windows Forms Controls.
Chapter 9: Using Windows Forms Controls.
Chapter 10: Windows Forms.
Chapter 11: Selecting WPF Controls.
Chapter 12: Using WPF Controls.
Chapter 13: WPF Windows.
Chapter 14: Program and Module Structure.
Chapter 15: Data Types, Variables, and Constants.
Chapter 16: Operators.
Chapter 17: Subroutines and Functions.
Chapter 18: Program Control Statements.
Chapter 19: Error Handling.
Chapter 20: Database Controls and Objects.
Chapter 21: LINQ.
Chapter 22: Custom Controls.
Chapter 23: Drag and Drop, and the Clipboard.
Chapter 24: UAC Security.
Part III: Object-Oriented Programming.
Chapter 25: OOP Concepts.
Chapter 26: Classes and Structures.
Chapter 27: Namespaces.
Chapter 28: Collection Classes.
Chapter 29: Generics.
Part IV: Graphics.
Chapter 30: Drawing Basics.
Chapter 31: Brushes, Pens, and Paths.
Chapter 32: Text.
Chapter 33: Image Processing.
Chapter 34: Printing.
Chapter 35: Reporting.
Part V: Interacting with the Environment.
Chapter 36: Configuration and Resources.
Chapter 37: Streams.
Chapter 38: File-System Objects.
Chapter 39: Windows Communication Foundation.
Chapter 40: Useful Namespaces.
Part VI: Appendices.
Appendix A: Useful Control Properties, Methods, and Events.
Appendix B: Variable Declarations and Data Types.
Appendix C: Operators.
Appendix D: Subroutine and Function Declarations.
Appendix E: Control Statements.
Appendix F: Error Handling.
Appendix G: Windows Forms Controls and Components.
Appendix H: WPF Controls.
Appendix I: Visual Basic Power Packs.
Appendix J: Form Objects.
Appendix K: Classes and Structures.
Appendix L: LINQ.
Appendix M: Generics.
Appendix N: Graphics.
Appendix O: Useful Exception Classes.
Appendix P: Date and Time Format Specifiers.
Appendix Q: Other Format Specifiers.
Appendix R: The Application Class.
Appendix S: The My Namespace.
Appendix T: Streams.
Appendix U: File-System Classes.
Appendix V: Index of Examples.
Index.
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