Synopses & Reviews
With Visual Basic.NET, Microsoft transforms Visual Basic into a supercharged tool for developing next-generation Web services and Windows applications. Now, learn Visual Basic.NET hands-on, through thousands of lines of live code in hundreds of complete working programs -- explained with exceptional clarity by the renowned programming trainers of Deitel & Associates! Visual Basic.NET How to Program starts by introducing the Visual Studio.NET development environment; then covers all key VB.NET programming fundamentals, from control structures to methods, arrays, and object-oriented programming. It delivers in-depth coverage of VB.NET GUI development; multithreading; graphics and multimedia; XML programming; database development with SQL and ADO.NET; building Web Forms and Web Services with ASP.NET; network programming; data structures; accessibility; and more. The book contains hundreds of real-world tips and techniques for writing high-quality code, improving performance and reliability, and efficient debugging. For all beginning programmers -- and developers experienced with traditional languages -- who want to master Visual Basic.NET quickly.
About the Author
Dr. Harvey Deitel is one of the world's leading computer science instructors and seminar presenters, and author of more than a dozen books. He worked on the pioneering operating system teams in industry and academia that developed many of the techniques at the heart of operating systems like UNIX®, Windows NT™ and OS/2™.Paul Deitel has taught Visual Basic, Java, C and C++ at numerous hardware and software companies, including Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment Corporation, IBM, Open Environment Corporation, Adra Systems, and Cambridge Technology Partners, and is himself an expert developer.
The Deitels are principals of Deitel & Associates, Inc., an international training organization specializing in Visual Basic, Java, C and C++, and object technologies.
Table of Contents
(NOTE: Each chapter begins with an Introduction.)
Chapter 1 : Introduction to Computers, Internet and Visual Basic
Chapter 2: Introduction to Visual Basic Express 2005 IDE
Chapter 3: Introduction to Visual Basic Programming
Chapter 4: Introduction to Classes and Objects
Chapter 5: Control Statements: Part 1
Chapter 6: Control Statements: Part 2
Chapter 7: Procedures
Chapter 8: Arrays
Chapter 9: Object-Based Programming: Classes and Objects
Chapter 10: Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance
Chapter 11: Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism
Chapter 12: Exception Handling
Chapter 13: Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 1
Chapter 14: Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 2
Chapter 15: Multithreading
Chapter 16: Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions
Chapter 17: Graphics and Multimedia
Chapter 18: Files and Streams
Chapter 19: Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Chapter 20: Database, SQL and ADO.NET
Chapter 21: ASP.NET, Web Forms and Web Controls
Chapter 22: Web Services
Chapter 23: Networking: Streams-Based Sockets and Datagrams
Chapter 24: Data Structures
Chapter 25: Collections (Non-Generic)
Chapter 26: Generics and Generic Collections
Chapter 27: Other Topics
Appendix A: Operator Precedence Chart
Appendix B: Number Systems
Appendix C: Visual Studio .NET Debugger
Appendix D: ASCII Character Set
Appendix E: Unicode
Appendix F: Introduction to XHTML: Part 1
Appendix G: Introduction to XHTML: Part 2
Appendix H: HTML/XHTML Special Characters
Appendix I: HTML/XHTML Colors