Mastering Visual Basic. NET Book

	Introduction	xxiii
Part I	The Fundamentals	1
Chapter 1	Getting Started with VB.NET	3
	The Integrated Development Environment	3
	Your First VB Application	12
	The IDE Components	19
	Environment Options	25
	A Few Common Properties	26
	A Few Common Events	28
	A Few Common Methods	28
	Building a Console Application	30
	Summary	32
Chapter 2	Visual Basic Projects	33
	Building a Loan Calculator	33
	Building a Math Calculator	45
	Taking the LoanCalculator to the Web	58
	Working with Multiple Forms	63
	Distributing an Application	69
	Summary	78
Chapter 3	Visual Basic: The Language	79
	Variables	80
	Constants	120
	Arrays	122
	Variables as Objects	130
	Flow-Control Statements	135
	Summary	149
Chapter 4	Writing and Using Procedures	151
	Modular Coding	152
	Arguments	160
	Summary	183
Chapter 5	Working with Forms	185
	The Appearance of Forms	186
	Loading and Showing Forms	207
	Designing Menus	219
	Building Dynamic Forms at Runtime	232
	Summary	240
Chapter 6	Basic Windows Controls	241
	The TextBox Control	241
	The ListBox, CheckedListBox, and ComboBox Controls	263
	The ScrollBar and TrackBar Controls	279
	Summary	287
Chapter 7	More Windows Controls	289
	The Common Dialog Controls	289
	The RichTextBox Control	305
	Summary	326
Part II	Rolling Your Own Objects	327
Chapter 8	Building Custom Classes	329
	What Is a Class?	330
	Building the Minimal Class	331
	A "Real" Class	356
	Inheritance	368
	Polymorphism	373
	Who Can Inherit What?	382
	Summary	390
Chapter 9	Building Custom Windows Controls	391
	On Designing Windows Controls	392
	Enhancing Existing Controls	393
	Building Compound Controls	401
	Building User-Drawn Controls	405
	Designing Irregularly Shaped Controls	421
	Building Owner-Drawn Controls	424
	Using ActiveX Controls	429
	Summary	431
Chapter 10	Automating Microsoft Office Applications	433
	Programming Word	434
	Programming Excel	453
	Programming Outlook	463
	Summary	476
Part III	Basic Framework Classes	477
Chapter 11	Storing Data in Collections	479
	Advanced Array Topics	480
	The ArrayList Collection	489
	The HashTable Collection	497
	The SortedList Class	504
	The IEnumerator and IComparer Interfaces	508
	The Serialization Class	521
	Summary	528
Chapter 12	Handling Strings, Characters, and Dates	529
	Handling Strings and Characters	530
	Handling Dates	552
	Summary	568
Chapter 13	Working with Folders and Files	569
	Accessing Folders and Files	570
	Accessing Files	594
	The FileSystem Watcher Component	610
	Summary	615
Part IV	Intermediate Programming	617
Chapter 14	Drawing and Painting with Visual Basic	619
	Displaying Images	620
	Drawing with GDI+	632
	Coordinate Transformations	668
	Bitmaps	681
	Summary	697
Chapter 15	Printing with VB.NET	699
	The Printing Objects	700
	Printer and Page Properties	706
	Printing Examples	719
	Summary	739
Chapter 16	The TreeView and ListView Controls	741
	Examining the Advanced Controls	741
	The TreeView Control	747
	The ListView Control	768
	Saving a Tree's Nodes to Disk	783
	Summary	789
Chapter 17	Error Handling and Debugging	791
	Types of Errors	791
	Exceptions and Structured Exception Handling	796
	Debugging	803
	Summary	809
Chapter 18	Recursive Programming	811
	Basic Concepts	812
	Scanning Folders Recursively	820
	The Stack Mechanism	829
	Special Issues in Recursive Programming	831
	Summary	834
Chapter 19	The Multiple Document Interface	837
	MDI Applications: The Basics	839
	A Scrollable PictureBox	860
	Summary	865
Part V	Database Programming with VB.NET	867
Chapter 20	Databases: Architecture and Basic Concepts	869
	What Is a Database?	870
	The Server Explorer	878
	Structured Query Language	889
	The Query Builder	906
	Stored Procedures	917
	Summary	924
Chapter 21	Building Database Applications with ADO.NET	925
	The Architecture of ADO.NET	926
	Creating a DataSet	928
	Data Binding	942
	Programming the DataAdapter Object	951
	The Command and DataReader Objects	956
	Summary	961
Chapter 22	Programming the ADO.NET Objects	963
	The Structure of a DataSet	964
	The DataForm Wizard	970
	Transactions	978
	Performing Update Operations	983
	Building and Using Custom DataSets	992
	Summary	995
Part VI	VB.NET on the Web	997
Chapter 23	Introduction to Web Programming	999
	An HTML Primer	1000
	Building a Web Application	1021
	The ASP.NET Objects	1037
	Using Cookies	1042
	Handling Multiple Forms in Web Applications	1043
	Summary	1046
Chapter 24	Accessing Data on the Web	1047
	The Data-Bound Web Controls	1047
	Getting Orders on the Web	1065
	A Master/Detail Web Page	1077
	Summary	1081
Chapter 25	XML Web Services	1083
	How to Serve the Web	1083
	Building a Web Service	1085
	ASP.NET Web Service Projects	1089
	A Data-Driven Web Service	1093
	Summary	1098
	Index	1099