Visual Basic.NET How to Program, Second Edition

For introductory and intermediate courses on Visual Basic programming offered in departments of Computer Science, CIS, MIS, IT, Business, Engineering, and Continuing Education. Teach Visual Basic .NET programming from the ground up! The introduction of Microsoft's .NET Framework marks the beginning of major revisions to all of Microsoft's programming languages. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the latest version of Visual Basic--Visual Basic .NET--which features extensive updates and increased functionality. Visual Basic .NET How to Program covers introductory programming techniques as well as more advanced topics, featuring enhanced treatment of developing Web-based applications.

The authoritative DEITEL™ LIVE-CODE™ introduction to Windows®, .NET, Internet and World Wide Web programming in Visual Basic® .NET

This exciting new Second Edition of the Deitels' best-selling Visual Basic textbook carefully explains how to use Visual Basic .NET—a premier language in Microsoft's new .NET initiative—as a general-purpose programming language and how to program multi-tier, client/server, database-intensive, Internet- and Web-based .NET applications.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally-recognized corporate-training and content-creation organization specializing in Visual Basic® .NET, C#, Visual C++® .NET, Java™, C++, C, XML™, Python, Perl; Internet, Web, wireless, e-business and object technologies. The Deitels are the authors of several worldwide #1 programming-language textbooks, including Java How to Program, 4/e, C++ How to Program, 3/e and Internet & World Wide Web How to Program, 2/e.

In Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2/e, the Deitels and their colleague, Tem. R. Nieto, discuss topics you need to build complete .NET, Web-based applications, including:

• .NET Introduction/IDE/Debugger
• Control Structures/Procedures/Arrays
• Classes/Data Abstraction/Strings
• OOP/Inheritance/Polymorphism
• Methods/Properties/Events/Delegates
• DataStructures/Collections/Unicode®
• Database/ADO.NET/SQL
• Assemblies/Modules/Exceptions
• GUI/Forms/Controls/Visual Inheritance
• Web Services/ASP.NET/Web Forms
• XML/XSLT™/DOM™/DTD/Schema
• VoiceXML™/Regular Expressions
• Files/Streams/Multimedia/Graphics/GDI+
• Multithreading/Client-Server/Networking
• Session Tracking/Cookies/Accessibility
• HTML 4/XHTML™/COM Integration

Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2/e includes extensive pedagogic features:

• Hundreds of LIVE-CODE™ programs with screen captures that show exact outputs
• Extensive World Wide Web and Internet resources to encourage further research
• Hundreds of tips, recommended practices and cautions—all marked with icons

Visual Basic .NET How to Program, 2/e is the centerpiece of a complete family of resources for teaching and learning Visual Basic .NET, including several Web sites (.

The Deitel .NET Series

Deitel & Associates, Inc., is making a major commitment to .NET programming through the launch of our.NET Series. Visual Basic.NET How to Program, Second Edition and C# .NET How to Program are the first books in this new series. We intend to follow these books with Advanced Visual Basic.NET How to Program and Advanced C#.NET How to Program, which will be published in December 2002. We also plan to publish Visual C++ .NET How to Program in July 2002, followed by Advanced Visual C++ .NET How to Program in July 2003.

Advanced Visual Basic. NET How to Program

Visual Basic. NET How to Program, Second Edition covers introductory through intermediate-level Visual Basic .NET programming topics, as well as core programming fundamentals. By contrast, our upcoming textbook Advanced Visual Basic .NET How to Program will be geared toward experienced Visual Basic .NET developers. This new book will cover enterprise-level programming topics, including: Creating multi-tier, database intensive ASP.NET applications using ADO.NET and XML; constructing custom Windows controls; developing custom Web controls; and building Windows services. The book also will include more in-depth explanations of object-oriented programming (with the UML), ADO.NET, XML Web services, wireless programming and security. Advanced Visual Basic.NET How to Program will be published in December 2002.

Home......Page 1 Contents......Page 2 Illustrations......Page 13 Preface......Page 32 1 - Introduction to Computers, Internet and Visual Basic .NET......Page 50 2 - Introduction to the Visual Studio .NET IDE......Page 82 3 - Introduction to Visual Basic Programming......Page 110 4 - Control Structures: Part 1......Page 144 5 - Control Structures: Part 2......Page 193 6 - Procedures......Page 230 7 - Arrays......Page 294 8 - Object-Based Programming......Page 345 9 - Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance......Page 397 10 - Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism......Page 437 11 - Exception Handling......Page 490 12 - Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 1......Page 523 13 - Graphical User Interfaces Concepts: Part 2......Page 572 14 - Multithreading......Page 641 15 - Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions......Page 682 16 - Graphics and Multimedia......Page 732 17 - Files and Streams......Page 801 18 - Extensible Markup Language (XML)......Page 882 19 - Database, SQL and ADO .NET......Page 936 20 - ASP .NET, Web Forms and Web Controls......Page 990 21 - ASP .NET and Web Services......Page 1079 22 - Networking: Streams-Based Sockets and Datagrams......Page 1145 23 - Data Structures and Collections......Page 1185 24 - Accessibility......Page 1252 A - Operator Precedence Chart......Page 1313 B - Number Systems......Page 1314 C - Career Opportunities......Page 1329 D - Visual Studio .NET Debugger......Page 1351 E - ASCII Character Set......Page 1368 F - Unicode®......Page 1369 G - COM Integration......Page 1381 H - Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part 1......Page 1393 I - Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part 2......Page 1416 J - Introduction to XHTML: Part 1......Page 1449 K - Introduction to XHTML: Part 2......Page 1475 L - HTML/XHTML Special Characters......Page 1511 M - HTML/XHTML Colors......Page 1512 N - Crystal Reports® for Visual Studio .NET......Page 1514 Bibliography......Page 1520 Index......Page 1524 With Visual Basic.NET, Microsoft transforms Visual Basic into a supercharged tool for developing next-generation Web services and Windows applications. Now, learn Visual Basic.NET hands-on, through thousands of lines of live code -- explained with exceptional clarity by the renowned programming trainers of Deitel & Associates! Visual Basic.NET How to Program starts by introducing the Visual Studio.NET development environment; then covers all key VB.NET programming fundamentals, from control structures to methods, arrays, and object-oriented programming. It delivers in-depth coverage of VB.NET GUI development; multithreading; graphics and multimedia; XML programming; database development with SQL and ADO.NET; building Web Forms and Web Services with ASP.NET; network programming; security; data structures; accessibility; and more. The book contains hundreds of real-world tips and techniques for writing high-quality code, improving performance and reliability, and efficient debugging. An accompanying CD-ROM contains all of the book's source code, up-to-date Visual Basic.NET development tools, plus links to the Web's best Visual Basic.NET demos and resources. For all beginning programmers -- and developers experienced with traditional languages -- who want to master Visual Basic.NET quickly. Explains how to use Visual Basic .NET - a premier language in Microsoft's .NET initiative - as a general-purpose programming language and how to program multi-tier, client/server, database-intensive, Internet- and Web-based .NET applications. This work discusses topics such as .NET Introduction/IDE/Debugger; and Classes/Data Abstraction/Strings. CD-ROM contains several appendices from the text, source code, links and Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0. An optional CD-ROM, which is included, is titled: Visual Basic.NET multimedia cyber classroom, and contains hyperlinks, solutions to many exercises, audio walkthroughs of code examples, etc