Synopses & Reviews
Visual Basic .NET and the .NET framework are radical changes in the evolution of Microsoft Windows and Web-based application development. Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Complete Concepts and Techniques from the Shelly Cashman Series will help you teach this new version of Visual Basic with confidence and will allow your students to learn this new version with ease. Following the same proven step-by-step pedagogy of our Visual Basic 6.0 book, the transition to .NET will seem effortless. Featuring a streamlined design, the book includes a greater emphasis on programming and coding, troubleshooting tips, and an updated and expanded Introductory chapter so students are sure to start with the basics.
Synopsis
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques from the Shelly Cashman Series
Synopsis
Microsoft Visual Basic .NET Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques from the Shelly Cashman Series« will help you teach this new version of Visual Basic with confidence and will allow your students to learn this new version with ease.
About the Author
Gary Shelly
Gary Shelly, together with co-author Tom Cashman, wrote and published his first computer education textbook in 1969. Since then, more than twenty million copies of Shelly Cashman textbooks have been sold. In recent years, Gary, Tom, and a talented group of contributing authors have produced leading textbooks on computer programming, computer concepts, and application software.
Thomas J. Cashman
Thomas J. Cashman received his education at California State University, Los Angeles. In 1960, he established one of the first business data processing programs in the United States at Long Beach City College in California, where he taught and served as department head from 1960 to 1966. In 1969, he began collaborating with Gary Shelly. Since that time, Cashman, Shelly, and a talented group of contributing authors have produced more than 186 leading textbooks on computer programming, computer concepts, and application software. He has also taught summer institutes for teachers at the University of Central Oklahoma, Memphis State University, and Purdue University.
The Shelly Cashman Series
Thirty-five years ago, computer educator Tom Cashman collaborated with Gary Shelly, one of his programming students, on their first book: IBM System/360 Assembler Language, published by Anaheim Publishing Company. With the success of this book, they formed a writing partnership that has endured to this day.
Shelly and Cashman soon became the best-selling authors in computer and computer programming education. In 1980, they published the first ever full-color Introduction to Computers text. Not only did they sell 1.8 million copies of this edition, they changed the face of the introductory computer course forever. Today, the Shelly Cashman Series books, published by Course Technology, are used by thousands of educators and millions of students, all around the world.
Table of Contents
1. An Introduction to Visual Basic .NET and Program Design 2. The Visual Basic .NET Integrated Development Environment 3. Building an Application in the Visual Basic .NET Environment 4. Working with Variables, Constants, Data Types, and Expressions 5. Decision Making 6. Repetition and Multiple Forms 7. Using Menus, Common Dialogs, Procedures, Functions, and Arrays 8. Debugging, Creating Executable Files, and Distributing a Windows Application Appendices: A: Flowcharting, Pseudocode, and the Unified Modeling Language (UML) B: Changing Screen Resolution and IDE Layout C: Visual Basic .NET Common Control Summary D: General Forms of Common Visual Basic .NET Statements E: The .NET Framework Class Library Overview F: ASCII Character Codes