Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 / Evangelos Petroutsos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petroutsos, Evangelos.

Series:

Sybex serious skills Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2010

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Microsoft Visual BASIC.

BASIC (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1058 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Technology Pub., 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The new edition of the ultimate comprehensive guide to Microsoft Visual Basic Where most VB books start with beginner level topics, Mastering Visual Basic 2010 vaults you right into intermediate and advanced coverage. From the core of the language and user interface design to developing data-driven applications, this detailed book brings you thoroughly up to speed and features numerous example programs you can use to start building your own apps right away.Covers Visual Basic 2010, part of Microsoft's Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE), which includes C#, C

Contents:

Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2010; About the Author; Contents at a Glance; Contents; Introduction; The Mastering Series; Who Should Read This Book?; How about the Advanced Topics?; The Structure of the Book; Downloading This Book's Code; Part 1: Visual Basic: The Language; Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Basic 2010; Exploring the Integrated Development Environment; Creating Your First VB Application; Understanding the IDE Components; Setting Environment Options; Building a Console Application; Using Code Snippets; Using the My Component; The Bottom Line; Chapter 2: Handling Data

VariablesVariables as Objects; Constants; Arrays; The Bottom Line; Chapter 3: Visual Basic Programming Essentials; Flow-Control Statements; Writing and Using Procedures; Arguments; The Bottom Line; Part 2: Developing Windows Applications; Chapter 4: GUI Design and Event-Driven Programming; On Designing Windows Applications; Building a Loan Calculator; Building a Calculator; The Bottom Line; Chapter 5: Basic Windows Controls; The TextBox Control; The ListBox, CheckedListBox, and ComboBox Controls; The ScrollBar and TrackBar Controls; The Bottom Line; Chapter 6: Working with Forms

The Appearance of FormsLoading and Showing Forms; Building Dynamic Forms at Runtime; Designing Menus; The Bottom Line; Chapter 7: More Windows Controls; The Common Dialog Controls; The RichTextBox Control; The TreeView and ListView Controls; The Bottom Line; Part 3: Working with Custom Classes and Controls; Chapter 8: Working with Objects; Classes and Objects; What Is a Class?; Building the Minimal Class; A ''Real'' Class; Operator Overloading; The Bottom Line; Chapter 9: Building Custom Windows Controls; On Designing Windows Controls; Enhancing Existing Controls; Building Compound Controls

Building User-Drawn ControlsDesigning Irregularly Shaped Controls; Customizing List Controls; The Bottom Line; Chapter 10: Applied Object-Oriented Programming; Issues in Object-Oriented Programming; Inheritance; Extension Methods; Polymorphism; Who Can Inherit What?; The Bottom Line; Part 4: Working with the .NET Framework; Chapter 11: The Framework at Large; What Is the Framework?; Using Snippets; Using the My Component; The IO Namespace; Drawing and Painting; The Image Class; Printing; Handling Strings and Characters; Handling Dates and Time; The Bottom Line

Chapter 12: Storing Data in CollectionsAdvanced Array Topics; Collection Types; The Dictionary Collection; The HashTable Collection; The SortedList Collection; Other Collections; The IEnumerator and IComparer Interfaces; The Bottom Line; Chapter 13: XML in Modern Programming; A Very Quick Introduction to XML; Manipulating XML with VB; Traversing XML Documents; VB 2010 at Work: Manipulating XML Data; XML Serialization; Other Types of Serialization; The Bottom Line; Chapter 14: An Introduction to LINQ; What Is LINQ?; LINQ to Objects; LINQ to XML; LINQ to SQL; The Bottom Line

Part 5: Developing Data-Driven Applications

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612549953

9780470640821

0470640820

9781282549951

1282549952

9780470640807

0470640804

OCLC:

609861494