Visual Basic 2008 How to Program

by Deitel, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780136053057
• ISBN10: 013605305X
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

Created by world-renowned programming instructors Paul and Harvey Deitel,Visual Basic 2008 How to Program, Fourth Editionintroduces all facets of the Visual Basic 2008 language hands-on, through hundreds of working programs.This book has been thoroughly updated to reflect the major innovations Microsoft has incorporated in Visual Basic 2008 and .NET 3.5; all discussions and sample code have been carefully audited against the newest Visual Basic language specification. The many new platform features covered in depth in this edition include: LINQ data queries, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), ASP.NET Ajax and the Microsoft Ajax Library, Silverlight-based rich Internet application development, and creating Web services with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). New language features introduced in this edition: object anonymous types, object initializers, implicitly typed local variables and arrays, delegates, lambda expressions, and extension methods. A series of appendices provide essential programming reference material on topics ranging from number systems to the Visual Studio Debugger, UML 2 to Unicode and ASCII.AUDIENCE:Appropriate for anyone interested in learning programming with Visual Basic 2008.

Table of Contents

Introduction to Computers, the Internet and Visual Basic

Introduction to the Visual Basic Express 2008 IDE

Introduction to Visual Basic Programming

Introduction to Classes and Objects

Control Statements

Control Statements

Methods: A Deeper Look

Arrays

Introduction to LINQ and Collections

Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look

Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance

Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism

Exception Handling

Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Forms

Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and XAML

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Graphics

Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions

Files and Streams

Extensible Markup Language (XML) and LINQ to XML

Databases, LINQ to SQL

ASP.NET and ASP.NET Ajax

Web Services and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

Microsoft“ Silverlightaao and Rich Internet Applications

Data Structures.and Generic Collections

Operator Precedence Chart

Primitive Types

Number Systems

Using the Visual Studio“ Debugger

ATM Case Study Code

UML 2: Additional Diagram Types

ASCII Character Set

Unicode“

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