Visual Basic 2008 Programmer's Reference

Acknowledgments vi

Introduction xxvii

Part I: IDE 1

Chapter 1: Introduction to the IDE 3

Chapter 2: Menus, Toolbars, and Windows 15

Chapter 3: Customization 43

Chapter 4: Windows Form Designer 49

Chapter 5: WPF Designer 61

Chapter 6: Visual Basic Code Editor 71

Chapter 7: Debugging 87

Part II: Getting Started 101

Chapter 8: Selecting Windows Forms Controls 103

Chapter 9: Using Windows Forms Controls 121

Chapter 10: Windows Forms 149

Chapter 11: Selecting WPF Controls 175

Chapter 12: Using WPF Controls 187

Chapter 13: WPF Windows 223

Chapter 14: Program and Module Structure 237

Chapter 15: Data Types, Variables, and Constants 261

Chapter 16: Operators 307

Chapter 17: Subroutines and Functions 327

Chapter 18: Program Control Statements 353

Chapter 19: Error Handling 377

Chapter 20: Database Controls and Objects 401

Chapter 21: LINQ 457

Chapter 22: Custom Controls 493

Chapter 23: Drag and Drop, and the Clipboard 519

Chapter 24: UAC Security 537

Part III: Object-Oriented Programming 545

Chapter 25: OOP Concepts 547

Chapter 26: Classes and Structures 563

Chapter 27: Namespaces 605

Chapter 28: Collection Classes 619

Chapter 29: Generics 647

Part IV: Graphics 659

Chapter 30: Drawing Basics 661

Chapter 31: Brushes, Pens, and Paths 697

Chapter 32: Text 727

Chapter 33: Image Processing 745

Chapter 34: Printing 761

Chapter 35: Reporting 781

Part V: Interacting with the Environment 803

Chapter 36: Configuration and Resources 805

Chapter 37: Streams 837

Chapter 38: File-System Objects 849

Chapter 39: Windows Communication Foundation 873

Chapter 40: Useful Namespaces 885

Part VI: Appendices 909

Appendix A: Useful Control Properties, Methods, and Events 911

Appendix B: Variable Declarations and Data Types 923

Appendix C: Operators 931

Appendix D: Subroutine and Function Declarations 939

Appendix E: Control Statements 943

Appendix F: Error Handling 949

Appendix G: Windows Forms Controls and Components 951

Appendix H: WPF Controls 1035

Appendix I: Visual Basic Power Packs 1043

Appendix J: Form Objects 1047

Appendix K: Classes and Structures 1063

Appendix L: LINQ 1067

Appendix M: Generics 1077

Appendix N: Graphics 1081

Appendix O: Useful Exception Classes 1095

Appendix P: Date and Time Format Specifiers 1099

Appendix Q: Other Format Specifiers 1103

Appendix R: The Application Class 1109

Appendix S: The My Namespace 1113

Appendix T: Streams 1131

Appendix U: File-System Classes 1139

Appendix V: Index of Examples 1157

Index 1177