Starting Out With Visual Basic 2008 Update

by Gaddis, Tony; Irvine, Kip R.

• ISBN13: 9780136076957
• ISBN10: 0136076955
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback w/CD
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Addison Wesley

Summary

KEY BENEFIT : This step-by-step approach helps readers understand the logic behind developing quality programs while introducing the Visual Basic 2008 language. KEY TOPICS : Introduction to Programming and Visual Basic 2008; Creating Applications with Visual Basic; Input, Variables, Exceptions, and Calculations; Making Decisions and Working with Strings; Lists, Loops, Validation, and More; Sub Procedures and Functions; Multiple Forms, Standard Modules, and Menus; Arrays, Timers, and More; Files, Printing, and Structures; Working with Databases; Developing Web Applications; Classes, Exceptions, Collections, and Scrollable Controls. MARKET : Ideal for beginners to programming and the Visual Basic language.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Programming and Visual Basic

Computer Systems: Hardware and Software

Programs and Programming Languages

Running the Wage Calculator application

Running an application that demonstrates event procedures

More about Controls and Programming

Running an application that demonstrates various controls

Starting Visual Studio

Opening the Design, Solution Explorer, Dynamic Help, and Properties windows in Visual Studio

Getting familiar with Visual Studio

Creating Applications with Visual Basic

Focus on Problem Solving: Building the Directions Application

Beginning the Directions application

Adding a Label control to the Directions application

Setting the Label's TextAlign property

Changing the Label's font size and style

Deleting a control

Inserting a PictureBox control

Saving and running the application

Closing a Visual Basic project

Opening an existing project

Using the Object box, Alphabetical button, and Categorized button

Focus on Problem Solving: Responding to Events

Placing the lblDirections, btnDisplayDirections, and btnExit controls in the Directions application

Writing event procedures for the Directions application

Changing the text colors

Setting the FormBorderStyle property and locking the controls in the Directions application

Modifying the Text Property with Code

Examining an application that displays messages

The AutoSize, BorderStyle, and TextAlign Properties

Clickable Images

Writing Click event procedures for PictureBox controls

Using Visual Studio Help

Using Dynamic Help in Visual Studio

Locating a compile error in Design mode

Variables and Calculations

Gathering Text Input

Using a TextBox control

Building the Date String application

Using the Focus method

Changing the tab order

Setting access keys, accept, and cancel buttons

Variables and Data Types

Assigning text to a variable

Performing Calculations

Mixing Different Data Types

Examining a Simple Calculator application

Formatting Numbers and Dates

Examining the Format Demo application

Exception Handling

Salary Calculation application with exception handling

Group Boxes and the Load Event Procedure

Focus on Program Design and Problem Solving: Building the Room Charge Calculator Application

Beginning the Room Charge Calculator application

Changing a label's colors

More about Debugging: Locating Logic Errors

Single-stepping through an application's code at runtime

Making Decisions and Working with Strings

The Decision Structure

The If...Then Statement

Examining an application that uses the If...Then statement

The If...Then...Else Statement

Completing an application that uses the If...Then...Else statement

The If...Then...ElseIf Statement

Completing an application that uses the If...Then...ElseIf statement

Comparing an If...Then...ElseIf statement to a series of If...Then statements

Nested If Statements

Completing an application with a nested If statement

Logical Operators

Comparing, Testing, and Working with Strings

Examining an application that performs string comparisons

Completing a string searching application

Focus on GUI Design: The Message Box

The Select Case Statement

Examining Crazy Al's Sales Commission Calculator application

Introduction to Input Validation

Focus on GUI Design: Radio Buttons and Check Boxes

Completing an application with radio buttons and check boxes

Class-Level Variables

Focus on Program Design and Problem Solving: Building the Health Club Membership Fee Calculator Application

Building the Health Club Membership Fee Calculator application

Lists, Loops, Validation, and More

Input Boxes

List Boxes

Creating list boxes

Completing an application that uses the Do While loop

Modifying the Do While Demo application to use a posttest loop

Using a loop to keep a running total

Examining an application that uses a user-controlled loop

The Do Until and For...Next Loops

Examining an application that uses the Do Until loop

Examining an application that uses the For...Next loop

Completing an application that uses the For...Next loop

Nested Loops

Multicolumn List Boxes, Checked List Boxes, and Combo Boxes

Creating combo boxes

Input Validation

Completing an application that demonstrates input validation

An example of inconvenient data input correction

Modifying the Validation Demo project to use the SelectAll method

ToolTips

Adding ToolTips to an application

Focus on Program Design and Problem Solving: Building the Vehicle Loan Calculator Application

Building the Vehicle Loan Calculator application

Procedures and Functions

Procedures

Examining an application with a procedure

Creating a procedure

Passing Arguments to Procedures

Examining an application that demonstrates passing an argument to a procedure

Working with ByVal and ByRef

Functions

Examining the GPA Calculator application

More about Debugging: Stepping Into, Over, and Out of Procedures and Functions

Practicing the Step Into, Step Over, and Step Out commands

Focus on Program Design and Problem Solving: Building the Bagel and Coffee Price Calculator Application

Building the Bagel House application

Multiple Forms, Standard Modules, and Menus

Multiple Forms

Completing an application that displays modal and modeless forms

Completing an application with multiple forms

Standard Modules

Examining an application that uses a standard module

Menus

Building a menu

Focus on Problem Solving: Building the High Adventure Travel Agency Price Quote Application

Building the High Adventure Travel Agency Price Quote application

Arrays, Timers, and More

Arrays

Completing an application that uses an array

More about Array Processing

Examining an application that uses parallel arrays

Procedures and Functions That Work with Arrays

Examining an application with functions and with arrays

Multidimensional Arrays

Completing an application that sums the rows of a two-dimensional array

Focus on GUI Design: The Enabled Property, Timer Control, and Splash Screens

The Timer Demo

Creating a splash screen

Focus on GUI Design: Anchoring and Docking Controls

Random Numbers

Examining the CatchMe application

Focus on Problem Solving: Building the Demetrist Leadership CenterApplication

Building the Demetris Leadership Center Sales Reporting application

Files, Printing, and Structures

Using Files

Completing an application that writes data to a file

Completing an application that reads a file

Examining an application that detects the end of a file

The OpenFileDialog, SaveFileDialog, FontDialog, and ColorDialog Controls

Creating a simple text editor application

The PrintDocument Control

Adding printing capabilities to the Simple Text Editor application

Structures

Examining an application with a structure

Focus on Problem Solving: Modifying the Demetris Leadership CenterApplication

Modifying the Demetris Leadership Center Sales Reporting application

Working with Databases

Database Management Systems

Database Concepts

DataGridView Control

Showing a database table in a DataGridView control

Sorting and updating the SalesStaff table

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