Professional Visual Basic 2010 and .NET 4

INTRODUCTION xxxv

PART I: LANGUAGE CONSTRUCTS AND ENVIRONMENT

CHAPTER 1: VISUAL STUDIO 2010 3

CHAPTER 2: OBJECTS AND VISUAL BASIC 67

CHAPTER 3: CUSTOM OBJECTS 137

CHAPTER 4: THE COMMON LANGUAGE RUNTIME 211

CHAPTER 5: DECLARATIVE PROGRAMMING WITH VISUAL BASIC 253

CHAPTER 6: EXCEPTION HANDLING AND DEBUGGING 267

CHAPTER 7: TEST-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT 287

PART II: BUSINESS OBJECTS AND DATA ACCESS

CHAPTER 8: ARRAYS, COLLECTIONS, AND GENERICS 311

CHAPTER 9: USING XML WITH VISUAL BASIC 341

CHAPTER 10: ADO.NET AND LINQ 389

CHAPTER 11: DATA ACCESS WITH THE ENTITY FRAMEWORK 437

CHAPTER 12: WORKING WITH SQL SERVER 457

CHAPTER 13: SERVICES (XML/WCF) 507

CHAPTER 14: WINDOWS FORMS 541

CHAPTER 15: ADVANCED WINDOWS FORMS 575

CHAPTER 16: USER CONTROLS COMBINING WPF AND WINDOWS FORMS 599

CHAPTER 17: WPF DESKTOP APPLICATIONS 617

CHAPTER 18: EXPRESSION BLEND 3 667

CHAPTER 19: SILVERLIGHT 679

CHAPTER 20: SILVERLIGHT AND SERVICES 699

CHAPTER 21: WORKING WITH ASP.NET 719

CHAPTER 22: ASP.NET ADVANCED FEATURES 751

CHAPTER 23: ASP.NET MVC 787

CHAPTER 24: SHAREPOINT 2010 DEVELOPMENT 807

CHAPTER 25: VISUAL STUDIO TOOLS FOR OFFICE 843

CHAPTER 26: WINDOWS WORKFLOW FOUNDATION 881

CHAPTER 27: LOCALIZATION 905

CHAPTER 28: COM-INTEROP 929

CHAPTER 29: NETWORK PROGRAMMING 949

CHAPTER 30: APPLICATION SERVICES 981

CHAPTER 31: ASSEMBLIES AND REFLECTION 1001

CHAPTER 32: SECURITY IN THE .NET FRAMEWORK 1021

CHAPTER 33: PARALLEL PROGRAMMING USING TASKS AND THREADS 1051

CHAPTER 34: DEPLOYMENT 1101

APPENDIX A: THE VISUAL BASIC COMPILER 1137

APPENDIX B: VISUAL BASIC POWER PACKS TOOLS 1151

APPENDIX C: WORKFLOW 2008 SPECIFICS 1165

APPENDIX D: ENTERPRISE SERVICES 1185

APPENDIX E: PROGRAMMING FOR THE CLOUD 1205

INDEX 1233