Coding Techniques for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET

John Connell, Microsoft Press

ISBN:0735612544, Edition: , 2001-11-10

Price: $59.99

Contents

• Cover
  • LOC Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
  • Who This Book Is For
  • Learning Visual Basic .NET by Writing Working Programs
  • What's in Coding Techniques for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET?
  • About the Companion CD
• Visual Basic .NET from the Ground Up
  • What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been
  • Why You Need to Learn Visual Basic .NET
  • What Are the Pieces and How Do They Fit Together? A .NET Framework Overview
  • Visual Basic .NET Is Object Oriented
  • A Brief Look at How the Visual Basic .NET Language Works
  • How Is a Visual Basic .NET Program Put Together?
  • Configuring the Interactive Development Environment
  • A First Look at the Visual Basic .NET IDE
  • A Closer Look at the Code
  • Nothing but .NET
• Object-Oriented Programming in Visual Basic .NET
  • An Object Lesson
  • Starting Out with Objects
  • Inheritance
  • Enough Talk: Press F5 and Run Your Program
  • Using the Class View to Spy on Structure and Access Modifiers
  • Overloading Methods
  • Polymorphism
  • What's Controlling Our Form When We Run It?
  • Your First Real Visual Basic .NET Program
  • Conclusion
• Writing Your First Class
  • Creating the Employee Class
  • The Employee Class Properties
  • More About Inheritance
  • Synchronizing the Class View
  • Creating Instances of the Employee Class
  • Conclusion: Object-Oriented Programming Demystified
• Visual Basic .NET Data Types and Features
  • Getting to Know Data Types
  • Visual Basic .NET Data Types
  • Data Type Features
  • Garbage Collection: Getting Rid of Our Objects
  • Conclusion
• Examining the .NET Class Framework Using Files and Strings
  • What Exactly Is the .NET Framework?
  • Learning to Find and Use What You Need
  • Examining the File Class
  • Streams
  • Using the File and StreamWriter Classes in the .NET Framework
  • Let's Talk Strings
  • Conclusion
• Arrays and Collections in Visual Basic .NET
  • Building Your First Visual Basic .NET Array
  • Arrays in Action: A Roman Numeral Calculator
  • Visual Basic .NET Collections
  • Eliza and the Beginning of Artificial Intelligence
  • Conclusion
• Handling Errors and Debugging Programs
  • What Can Possibly Go Wrong?
  • Types of Visual Basic .NET Errors
  • The Classic Visual Basic Err Object Is Gone in Visual Basic .NET
  • Try, Catch, and Finally
  • Setting a Breakpoint in Your Code
  • Running the Program Using the Debugger
  • The Call Stack
  • The Debug and Trace Classes
  • Adding Event Logging to Your Programs
  • Conclusion
• Assemblies in Detail
  • The Right to Assemble
  • Reflection: How to Go About Examining Assemblies
  • The Assembly Spy Program
  • Self-Examination: Contemplating Our Own Assembly
  • New Variable Scoping in Visual Basic .NET
  • Conclusion
• File System Monitoring
  • The File Sentinel Program
  • Introduction to Windows Services
  • Conclusion
• Data Access with ADO.NET
  • From ADO to ADO.NET
  • A Closer Look at the Foundation of ADO.NET: The DataSet Object
  • Managed Providers in ADO.NET
  • Enough Talk, Let's Look at Some Code
  • Writing a Simple SQLClient Class DataSet Program
  • Conclusion
• Data Sets in Detail
  • Looking Again at the ADO.NET Object Model
  • Data Sets and XML
  • Building the Data Set and XML Viewer Project
  • ADO.NET and XML
  • Persisting Our XML Information
  • Leveraging Our XML File for New Classes
  • Adding a Relationship to Our Program
  • Populating a Data Grid from a Persisted XML File
  • Hand Coding a Simple Program
  • Data Binding
  • Conclusion
• ADO.NET Data Binding
  • The BindingContext Object
  • The CurrencyManager Object
  • A Simple Example
  • The DataTable, DataRow, and DataColumn Objects
  • Conclusion
• ASP.NET and Web Services
  • A Look Back at ASP
  • Why ASP.NET?
  • Our First Web Form
  • Building a Loan Payment Calculator
  • Web Services: The New Marketplace
  • Building a Web Service
  • Conclusion
• Visual Inheritance and Custom Controls
  • Visual Inheritance
  • Creating a Custom Control
  • Putting It Together: What We've Learned So Far
  • Conclusion
• Appendix
  • Using the Data Form Wizard
  • Generating a Crystal Report from a Data Source
• About the Author