Beginning Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 / Thearon WIllis, Bryan Newsome.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newsome, Bryan.

Contributor:

Newsome, Bryan, 1971-

Series:

Wrox beginning guides.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

BASIC (Computer program language).

Microsoft Visual BASIC.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (724 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, IN : Wiley Pub., Inc., c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is designed to teach you how to write useful programs in Visual Basic 2010 as quickly and easily as possible. There are two kinds of beginners for whom this book is ideal: You're a beginner to programming and you've chosen Visual Basic 2010 as the place to start. That's a great choice! Visual Basic 2010 is not only easy to learn, it's also fun to use and very powerful. You can program in another language but you're a beginner to .NET programming. Again, you've made a great choice! Whether you've come from Fortran or Visual Basic 6, you'll find that this book quickly

Contents:

Beginning Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2010; ABOUT THE AUTHORS; ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOR; CREDITS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1: Welcome to Visual Basic 2010; EVENT-DRIVEN PROGRAMMING; INSTALLING VISUAL BASIC 2010; THE VISUAL STUDIO 2010 IDE; CREATING A SIMPLE APPLICATION; USING THE HELP SYSTEM; SUMMARY; Chapter 2: The Microsoft .NET Framework; MICROSOFT'S RELIANCE ON WINDOWS; WRITING SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS; COMMON LANGUAGE RUNTIME; THE COMMON TYPE SYSTEM AND COMMON LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION; SUMMARY; Chapter 3: Writing Software; INFORMATION AND DATA; WORKING WITH VARIABLES

COMMENTS AND WHITESPACEDATA TYPES; STORING VARIABLES; METHODS; SUMMARY; Chapter 4: Controlling the Flow; MAKING DECISIONS; THE IF STATEMENT; SELECT CASE; LOOPS; SUMMARY; Chapter 5: Working with Data Structures; UNDERSTANDING ARRAYS; UNDERSTANDING ENUMERATIONS; UNDERSTANDING CONSTANTS; STRUCTURES; WORKING WITH ARRAYLISTS; WORKING WITH COLLECTIONS; BUILDING LOOKUP TABLES WITH HASHTABLE; ADVANCED ARRAY MANIPULATION; SUMMARY; Chapter 6: Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML); WHAT IS XAML?; XAML SYNTAX; WINDOWS PRESENTATION FOUNDATION; SUMMARY; Chapter 7: Building Windows Applications

RESPONDING TO EVENTSBUILDING A SIMPLE APPLICATION; COUNTING CHARACTERS; COUNTING WORDS; CREATING MORE COMPLEX APPLICATIONS; CREATING THE TOOLBAR; CREATING THE STATUS BAR; CREATING AN EDIT BOX; CLEARING THE EDIT BOX; RESPONDING TO TOOLBAR BUTTONS; USING MULTIPLE FORMS; SUMMARY; Chapter 8: Displaying Dialog Boxes; THE MESSAGEBOX; THE OPENFILEDIALOG CONTROL; THE SAVEDIALOG CONTROL; THE FONTDIALOG CONTROL; THE COLORDIALOG CONTROL; THE PRINTDIALOG CONTROL; THE FOLDERBROWSERDIALOG CONTROL; SUMMARY; Chapter 9: Creating Menus; UNDERSTANDING MENU FEATURES; CREATING MENUS; CONTEXT MENUS; SUMMARY

Chapter 10: Debugging and Error HandlingMAJOR ERROR TYPES; DEBUGGING; ERROR HANDLING; SUMMARY; Chapter 11: Building Objects; UNDERSTANDING OBJECTS; BUILDING CLASSES; REUSABILITY; DESIGNING AN OBJECT; CONSTRUCTORS; INHERITANCE; OBJECTS AND STRUCTURES; THE FRAMEWORK CLASSES; SUMMARY; Chapter 12: Advanced Object-Oriented Techniques; BUILDING A FAVORITES VIEWER; AN ALTERNATIVE FAVORITE VIEWER; USING SHARED PROPERTIES AND METHODS; UNDERSTANDING OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING AND MEMORY MANAGEMENT; SUMMARY; Chapter 13: Building Class Libraries; UNDERSTANDING CLASS LIBRARIES; USING STRONG NAMES

REGISTERING ASSEMBLIESDESIGNING CLASS LIBRARIES; USING THIRD-PARTY CLASS LIBRARIES; VIEWING CLASSES WITH THE OBJECT BROWSER; SUMMARY; Chapter 14: Creating Windows Forms User Controls; WINDOWS FORMS CONTROLS; CREATING AND TESTING A USER CONTROL; EXPOSING PROPERTIES FROM USER CONTROLS; DESIGN TIME OR RUNTIME; CREATING A COMMAND LINK CONTROL; SUMMARY; Chapter 15: Accessing Databases; WHAT IS A DATABASE?; THE SQL SELECT STATEMENT; QUERIES IN ACCESS; DATA ACCESS COMPONENTS AND CONTROLS; DATA BINDING; SUMMARY; Chapter 16: Database Programming with SQL Server and ADO.NET; ADO.NET

ADO.NET Data Namespaces

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 656-660) and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612683015

9781118057278

1118057279

9781282683013

1282683012

9780470636411

0470636416

OCLC:

609858593