Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers

by Deitel, Harvey M.; Deitel, Paul J.

• ISBN13: 9780132251402
• ISBN10: 013225140X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-06
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Written in the Deitels' proven style, one of the bestselling books on Visual Basic .NET is now updated for Visual Basic 2005.

Author Biography

Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized programming languages content-creation and corporate training organization. Together with their colleagues at Deitel & Associates, Inc., they have written many international best-selling programming languages textbooks and professional books that millions of people worldwide have used to master C, C++, Java™, C#, XML, Visual Basic®, Perl, Python, and Internet and Web programming.

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Paul J. Deitel and Harvey M. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized programming languages content-creation and corporate training organization. Together with their colleagues at Deitel & Associates, Inc., they have written many international best-selling programming languages textbooks and professional books that millions of people worldwide have used to master C, C++, Java™, C#, XML, Visual Basic®, Perl, Python, and Internet and Web programming.

Table of Contents

Introduction to .NET, Visual Basic and Object technology	p. 1
Introduction to the Visual Basic Express 2005 IDE	p. 18
Introduction to Visual Basic programming	p. 51
Introduction to classes and objects	p. 90
Control statements : part 1	p. 123
Control statements : part 2	p. 162
Methods : a deeper look	p. 199
Arrays	p. 253
Classes and objects : a deeper look	p. 302
Object-oriented programming : inheritance	p. 346
Object-oriented programming : polymorphism	p. 387
Exception handling	p. 432
Graphical user interface concepts : part 1	p. 459
Graphical user interface concepts : part 2	p. 501
Multithreading	p. 561
Strings, characters and regular expressions	p. 600
Graphics and multimedia	p. 637
Files and streams	p. 694
Extensible Markup Language (XML)	p. 737
Database, SQL and ADO.NET	p. 791
ASP.NET 2.0, Web forms and Web controls	p. 841
Web services	p. 941
Networking : streams-based sockets and datagrams	p. 998
Data structures	p. 1048
Generics	p. 1085
Collections	p. 1104
Operator precedence chart	p. 1131
Number systems	p. 1133
Using the Visual Studio 2005 Debugger	p. 1143
ASCII character set	p. 1160
Unicode	p. 1161
Introduction to XHTML : part 1	p. 1170
Introduction to XHTML : part 2	p. 1191
XHTML special characters	p. 1222
XHTML colors	p. 1224
ATM case study code	p. 1227
UML 2 : additional diagram types	p. 1252
Primitive types	p. 1254
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Excerpts

"Live in fragments no longer, only connect." Edgar Morgan Foster Welcome to the world of Windows, Internet and Web programming with Visual Basic, Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET 2.0 platform! This book presents leading-edge computing technologies to software developers and IT professionals. At Deitel & Associates, we write computer science textbooks for college students and professional books for software developers. We also teach this material in industry seminars at organizations worldwide. This book was a joy to create. To start, we put the previous edition under the microscope: We audited our presentation against the most recent Microsoft Visual Basic Language SpecificationVersion 8which can be downloaded from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=62990 We fully updated the book to Visual Studio 2005 and .NET 2.0. All of the chapters have been significantly updated and upgraded. We changed to an early classes and objects pedagogy. Now readers build reusable classes starting with a very friendly treatment in Chapter 4. We updated our object-oriented presentation to use the latest version of theUML (Unified Modeling Language)UML 2.0the industry-standard graphical language for modeling object-oriented systems. We added an optional OOD/UML automated teller machine (ATM) case study in Chapters 1, 39 and 11. The case study includes a complete Visual Basic code implementation of the ATM in Appendix J. We added several multi-section, object-oriented programming case studies. We incorporated key new features of Microsoft's latest release of Visual BasicVisual Basic 2005and added discussions on generics, .NET remoting and debugging. We significantly enhanced our treatment of XML, ADO.NET, ASP.NET and Web services. All of this has been carefully scrutinized by a substantial team of .NET industry developers, academic professionals and members of theMicrosoft Visual Basic development team. Who Should Read This Book We have several Visual Basic publications, intended for different audiences.Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers, 2/e,is part of theDeitel Developer Series,intended for professional software developers who want a deep treatment of a new technology with minimal introductory material. The book emphasizes achieving program clarity through the proven techniques of structured programming, object-oriented programming (OOP) and event-driven programming. It continues with upper-level topics such as XML, ASP.NET 2.0, ADO.NET 2.0 and Web services. Unlike ourHow to Program Seriescollege textbooks, theDeitel Developer Seriesbooks do not include the extensive pedagogic features and ancillary support materials required for college courses. Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers, 2/epresents hundreds of complete, working Visual Basic programs and depicts their inputs and outputs in actual screen shots of running programs. This is our signature "live-code" approachwe present concepts in the context of complete working programs. As you read this book, if you have questions, send an e-mail to [e-mail] ; we will respond promptly. For updates on this book and the status of Visual Basic software, and for the latest news on all Deitel publications and services, please visit www.deitel.com regularly and be sure to sign up for the f