.NET for Visual FoxPro developers / Kevin McNeish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McNeish, Kevin.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Visual FoxPro for Windows.

Microsoft .NET Framework.

Database management.

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 524 p.

Place of Publication:

Whitefish Bay, Wis. : Hentzenwerke Publishing, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

If you're simply curious about what .NET offers, this book provides a strong overview of the .NET Framework and the C# and Visual Basic .NET languages, helping you to assess these new technologies through the lens of Visual FoxPro. If you're already "sold" and are ready to learn specifics about how to use .NET in your software development projects, this book provides plenty of "how to", "step-by-step" and "best practices" information that will help you climb the .NET learning curve and get up and running quickly.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

Chapter 1 Introducing .NET

What is .NET?

What is the .NET Framework?

The .NET Framework class library

The Common Language Runtime

Why .NET for VFP developers?

Marketability

ASP.NET

Building middle-tier components

Language interoperability

Abstracting operating system services

Multithreading

You're in a great position to learn .NET

Managed Code

Assemblies

Manifests

Private and shared assemblies

Namespaces

.NET Programming Languages

Visual C# .NET

Visual Basic .NET

Naming Guidelines

Overview of the development process

Requirements gathering

Building a plan for construction

Designing and building business objects

Data modeling

Building the user interface

Building an XML Web service

Conclusion

Chapter 2 Visual Studio .NET

The Start Page

Get Started

What's New

Online Community

Headlines

Search Online

Downloads

XML Web Services

Web Hosting

My Profile

Showing the Start Page

Solutions and Projects

Creating a new project

Project Templates

Example: Building a Visual Basic Windows Application

Examining the new solution with Solution Explorer

Examining the new project

Adding another project to an existing solution

Specifying a startup project

Building a Solution

Build configurations

Build options

Building your sample solution

Examining the build output files

Running the compiled program

Creating and installing shared assemblies

Dynamic Help

The Properties Window

Sorting items in the Properties Window

Displaying events

Code editing

IntelliSense

Outlining

Bookmarks

Formatting text

Visual Studio .NET Windows

Tool windows

Document windows

Searching and Replacing

Find and Replace

Find in Files and Replace in Files

Find Symbols.

Setting IDE options

Object Browser

Class View window

C# special Class View features

Task List

Command Window

Favorites

Toolbox

Server Explorer

Data Connections

Servers

Source control

Macro Explorer

Macros IDE

Chapter 3 Introduction to C#

Weak typing vs. strong typing

A simple C# program

C# syntax

Case sensitivity

Semicolons and multi-line statements

Code placement

Grouping statements together

Comments

Defining a simple class

The default base class

Defining class methods

Declaring variables

Fields

Field modifiers

Value and reference types

Understanding the stack and the heap

Value and reference type performance

The string type

Assigning one string to another

Enumerations

Arrays

Declaring arrays

Storing values to arrays

Sorting arrays

Multidimensional arrays

Type conversions

Implicit type conversions

Explicit type conversion using casts

Converting to string

Using Parse to convert strings

Boxing and unboxing values

The 'is' operator

'if' statement

'switch' statement

'for' loop

'while' loop

'do' loop

'foreach' loop

XML Documentation

Unsafe Code

C# as an international, industry standard language

Chapter 4 Introduction to Visual Basic .NET

Changes for Visual Basic 6 backward compatibility

Weak Typing vs. Strong Typing

Option Explicit and Option Strict

A simple Visual Basic .NET program

Visual Basic .NET Syntax

Case insensitivity

End-of-line and line continuation characters

Returning values from a method

Member variables

Member variable modifiers.

Value and reference types

Strings as reference types

Declaring Arrays

Redimensioning arrays

Explicit type conversion

The 'CType' function

Converting strings with 'Val'

Boxing and unboxing in Visual Basic .NET

The 'TypeOf' operator

'If' statement

'Select…Case' statement

'For…Next' loop

'While' loop

'Do' loop

'For Each' loop

'With' statement

XML Documentation Tool

Chapter 5 Object Orientation in C# and Visual Basic .NET

Where do you put your code?

Classes

Defining classes

Defining fields (member variables)

Defining properties

Read-only and write-only properties

Defining methods

Specifying method parameters

Overloaded methods

Constructor methods

Destructor methods

Class inheritance

Specifying a base class

Overriding inherited methods

Virtual (Overridable) methods

Extending inherited methods

Polymorphism and virtual methods

Hiding inherited methods

Preventing inheritance

Abstract classes and methods

Concrete methods in abstract classes

When to create abstract classes

Instantiating concrete subclasses

Programming to an interface rather than an implementation

Interface inheritance

Implementing interfaces

Implementing multiple interfaces

Implementing interfaces with the Class View window in C#

Referencing classes by interface

Polymorphism and interfaces

Deciding between abstract classes and interfaces

Instance and static (Shared) members

Referencing static class members

Events and delegates

Delegates

An events example

Overriding events defined in the .NET Framework.

Event handling using 'WithEvents' in Visual Basic .NET

Event handling made easy in Visual Studio .NET

Structures

Copying structures

Deciding between classes and structures

Attributes

Indexers

Garbage Collection

Dispose methods

Destructors and Finalize methods

C#'s using statement

Operator Overloading

Reflection

Accessing type information

Late binding with reflection

Late binding in Visual Basic .NET

Performance and late binding

Chapter 6 Tour of the .NET Base Classes

The System namespace

The String class-working with strings

The Environment class - platform and environment information

DateTime structure

The Math class

The System.Collections namespace

The ArrayList class

Comparer and CaseInsensitiveComparer classes

The HashTable class

The Queue class

The Stack and SortedList classes

The System.EnterpriseServices namespace

Configuring an assembly for COM+ services

Deploying the assembly

Configuring a class for object pooling

The System.IO namespace

The Directory and DirectoryInfo classes

The File, FileInfo classes

Writing and Reading files with StreamWriter and StreamReader

The Path class

The FileSystemWatcher class

The System.Net namespace

Downloading and uploading with the WebClient class

The Dns and IPHostEntry classes

The System.Timers namespace

Chapter 7 Data Access with ADO.NET

A brief history of data access

Data access and the n-tier architecture model

Introducing ADO.NET

.NET data providers

Disconnected DataSets

ADO.NET and XML

ADO.NET performance

The .NET data classes

Data-specific classes

Accessing data with ADO.NET

Choosing between DataReaders and DataSets

Accessing data with a DataReader

Creating a connection to the data source.

Configuring a data command object

Executing a data command

Processing the return value

Closing the connection

Pulling it all together

Accessing data using DataSets

Loading a DataSet with a data adapter

Loading XML into a DataSet

Invoking stored procedures

Updating Data Using DataSets

Understanding data adapters

Using command builders

Typed DataSets

Deploying a .NET application with data access

Accessing Visual FoxPro Data from ADO.NET

Chapter 8 .NET Business Objects

What is a business object?

Examining business objects in popular software applications

Monolithic vs. three-tier applications

Additional business object benefits

Normalizing application logic

Solving the "where's the code" syndrome

Ease of conceiving and creating complex software systems

A simple example

Making .NET data access easy

Enforcing business rules

.NET business object architecture

The BusinessObject class

Creating subclasses of the BusinessObject class

Retrieving data with the GetDataSet method

Saving data with the SaveDataSet method

The BusinessRules class

Checking for broken business rules

Data access classes

Chapter 9 Building .NET Windows Forms Applications

Creating a Windows Forms application

Namespaces in C#

Namespaces in Visual Basic .NET

Behind the scenes with C#

Behind the scenes with Visual Basic .NET

Modifying the main application form

Creating a main application menu

Adding a new form to the project

Working with the TabControl

Adding controls to the List page

Accessing data by means of business objects

Data binding in Windows Forms

Simple data binding

Complex data binding

Data binding controls at run time

Compiling and running the form

Designing the DataGrid.

Setting the DataGrid's color scheme.

Notes:

Includes index.

Title from title screen.

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ISBN:

1-280-54419-8

9786610544196

1-930919-31-X

OCLC:

923121694