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Visual Basic 2010 offers a great deal of functionality in both tools and language. No one book could ever cover Visual Basic 2010 in its entirety--you would need a library of books. What this book aims to do is to get you started as quickly and easily as possible. It shows you the roadmap, so to speak, of what there is and where to go. Once we've taught you the basics of creating working applications (creating the windows and controls, how your code should handle unexpected events, what object-oriented programming is, how to use it in your applications, and so on) we'll show you some of the areas you might want to try your hand at next WroxBooks 2 Beginning Microsoft庐 Visual Basic庐 2010 1 ABOUT THE AUTHORS 11 ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOR 13 CREDITS 15 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 17 CONTENTS 19 INTRODUCTION 31 Chapter 1: Welcome to Visual Basic 2010 37 EVENT-DRIVEN PROGRAMMING 38 INSTALLING VISUAL BASIC 2010 39 THE VISUAL STUDIO 2010 IDE 42 CREATING A SIMPLE APPLICATION 46 USING THE HELP SYSTEM 56 SUMMARY 56 Chapter 2: The Microsoft .NET Framework 59 MICROSOFT鈥橲 RELIANCE ON WINDOWS 59 WRITING SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS 63 COMMON LANGUAGE RUNTIME 66 THE COMMON TYPE SYSTEM AND COMMON LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION 69 SUMMARY 69 Chapter 3: Writing Software 73 INFORMATION AND DATA 73 WORKING WITH VARIABLES 75 COMMENTS AND WHITESPACE 78 DATA TYPES 80 STORING VARIABLES 101 METHODS 106 SUMMARY 116 Chapter 4: Controlling the Flow 119 MAKING DECISIONS 119 THE IF STATEMENT 120 SELECT CASE 134 LOOPS 142 SUMMARY 156 Chapter 5: Working with Data Structures 159 UNDERSTANDING ARRAYS 159 UNDERSTANDING ENUMERATIONS 169 UNDERSTANDING CONSTANTS 175 STRUCTURES 178 WORKING WITH ARRAYLISTS 182 WORKING WITH COLLECTIONS 189 BUILDING LOOKUP TABLES WITH HASHTABLE 193 ADVANCED ARRAY MANIPULATION 200 SUMMARY 202 Chapter 6: Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) 205 WHAT IS XAML? 206 XAML SYNTAX 207 WINDOWS PRESENTATION FOUNDATION 210 SUMMARY 225 Chapter 7: Building Windows Applications 229 RESPONDING TO EVENTS 229 BUILDING A SIMPLE APPLICATION 237 COUNTING CHARACTERS 241 COUNTING WORDS 243 CREATING MORE COMPLEX APPLICATIONS 249 CREATING THE TOOLBAR 250 CREATING THE STATUS BAR 254 CREATING AN EDIT BOX 256 CLEARING THE EDIT BOX 258 RESPONDING TO TOOLBAR BUTTONS 260 USING MULTIPLE FORMS 266 SUMMARY 269 Chapter 8: Displaying Dialog Boxes 273 THE MESSAGEBOX 273 THE OPENFILEDIALOG CONTROL 280 THE SAVEDIALOG CONTROL 288 THE FONTDIALOG CONTROL 293 THE COLORDIALOG CONTROL 296 THE PRINTDIALOG CONTROL 299 THE FOLDERBROWSERDIALOG CONTROL 307 SUMMARY 311 Chapter 9: Creating Menus 313 UNDERSTANDING MENU FEATURES 313 CREATING MENUS 316 CONTEXT MENUS 326 SUMMARY 333 Chapter 10: Debugging and Error Handling 335 MAJOR ERROR TYPES 336 DEBUGGING 341 ERROR HANDLING 367 SUMMARY 371 Chapter 11: Building Objects 375 UNDERSTANDING OBJECTS 375 BUILDING CLASSES 379 REUSABILITY 380 DESIGNING AN OBJECT 381 CONSTRUCTORS 393 INHERITANCE 395 OBJECTS AND STRUCTURES 405 THE FRAMEWORK CLASSES 406 SUMMARY 413 Chapter 12: Advanced Object-Oriented Techniques 417 BUILDING A FAVORITES VIEWER 417 AN ALTERNATIVE FAVORITE VIEWER 435 USING SHARED PROPERTIES AND METHODS 440 UNDERSTANDING OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING AND MEMORY MANAGEMENT 446 SUMMARY 450 Chapter 13: Building Class Libraries 453 UNDERSTANDING CLASS LIBRARIES 454 USING STRONG NAMES 460 REGISTERING ASSEMBLIES 464 DESIGNING CLASS LIBRARIES 465 USING THIRD-PARTY CLASS LIBRARIES 466 VIEWING CLASSES WITH THE OBJECT BROWSER 467 SUMMARY 468 Chapter 14: Creating Windows Forms User Controls 471 WINDOWS FORMS CONTROLS 472 CREATING AND TESTING A USER CONTROL 472 EXPOSING PROPERTIES FROM USER CONTROLS 476 DESIGN TIME OR RUNTIME 483 CREATING A COMMAND LINK CONTROL 485 SUMMARY 496 Chapter 15: Accessing Databases 499 WHAT IS A DATABASE? 500 THE SQL SELECT STATEMENT 501 QUERIES IN ACCESS 503 DATA ACCESS COMPONENTS AND CONTROLS 507 DATA BINDING 509 SUMMARY 515 Chapter 16: Database Programming with SQL Server and ADO.NET 519 ADO.NET 521 ADO.NET Data Namespaces 521 THE ADO.NET CLASSES IN ACTION 533 DATA BINDING 542 SUMMARY 569 Chapter 17: Dynamic Data Web Site 573 CREATING A DYNAMIC DATA LINQ TO SQL WEB SITE 573 SUMMARY 583 Chapter 18: ASP.NET 585 THIN-CLIENT ARCHITECTURE 586 WEB FORMS VERSUS WINDOWS FORMS 587 WEB APPLICATIONS: THE BASIC PIECES 588 ACTIVE SERVER PAGES 589 BUILDING WEB SITES 591 SUMMARY 615 Chapter 19: Visual Basic 2010 and XML 619 UNDERSTANDING XML 619 THE ADDRESS BOOK PROJECT 623 INTEGRATING WITH THE ADDRESS BOOK APPLICATION 647 SUMMARY 654 Chapter 20: Deploying Your Application 657 WHAT IS DEPLOYMENT? 657 CREATING A VISUAL STUDIO 2010 SETUP APPLICATION 663 USER INTERFACE EDITOR 666 DEPLOYING DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS 669 SUMMARY 673 Appendix A: Exercise Solutions 675 Appendix B: Where to Now? 691 INDEX 697

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• explains Deploying Applications Using Clickonce Technology
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