Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2008ISBN: 978-0-470-18742-5
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1152 pages
March 2008
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Introduction xxix
Chapter 1 • Getting Started with Visual Basic 2008 1
Chapter 2 • Variables and Data Types 35
Chapter 3 • Programming Fundamentals 85
Chapter 4 • GUI Design and Event-Driven Programming 123
Chapter 5 • The Vista Interface 151
Chapter 6 • Basic Windows Controls 173
Chapter 7 • Working with Forms 217
Chapter 8 • More Windows Controls 267
Chapter 9 • The TreeView and ListView Controls 305
Chapter 10 • Building Custom Classes 349
Chapter 11 • Working with Objects 395
Chapter 12 • Building Custom Windows Controls 429
Chapter 13 • Handling Strings, Characters, and Dates 461
Chapter 14 • Storing Data in Collections 499
Chapter 15 • Accessing Folders and Files 541
Chapter 16 • Serialization and XML 591
Chapter 17 • Querying Collections and XML with LINQ 621
Chapter 18 • Drawing and Painting with Visual Basic 2008 649
Chapter 19 • Manipulating Images and Bitmaps 693
Chapter 20 • Printing with Visual Basic 2008 717
Chapter 21 • Basic Concepts of Relational Databases 753
Chapter 22 • Programming with ADO.NET 805
Chapter 23 • Building Data-Bound Applications 845
Chapter 24 • Advanced DataSet Operations 885
Chapter 25 • Building Web Applications 901
Chapter 26 • ASP.NET 3.5 937
Chapter 27 • ASP.NET Web Services 981
Appendix A • ’’The Bottom Line’’ 997
Appendix B • ’’Debugging and Error Handling’’ 1045
Index 1075