section I The Visual Studio IDE and Controls.

Chapter 1 Getting Started with the Visual Studio IDE.

Chapter 2 Creating Controls.

Chapter 3 Making Controls Arrange Themselves.

Chapter 4 Handling Events.

Chapter 5 Making Menus.

Chapter 6 Making Tool Strips and Status Strips.

Chapter 7 Using RichTextBoxes.

Chapter 8 Using Standard Dialogs.

Chapter 9 Creating and Displaying New Forms.

Chapter 10 Building Custom Dialogs.

Section II Variables and Calculations.

Chapter 11 Using Variables and Performing Calculations.

Chapter 12 Debugging Code.

Chapter 13 Understanding Scope.

Chapter 14 Working with Strings.

Chapter 15 Working with Dates and Times.

Chapter 16 Using Arrays and Collections.

Chapter 17 Using Enumerations and Structures.

Section III Program Statements.

Chapter 18 Making Choices.

Chapter 19 Repeating Program Steps.

Chapter 20 Reusing Code with Methods.

Chapter 21 Handling Errors.

Chapter 22 Preventing Bugs.

Section IV Classes.

Chapter 23 Defining Classes.

Chapter 24 Initializing Objects.

Chapter 25 Fine-Tuning Classes.

Chapter 26 Overloading Operators.

Chapter 27 Using Interfaces.

Chapter 28 Making Generic Classes.

Section V System Interactions.

Chapter 29 Reading and Writing Files.

Chapter 30 Using File System Classes.

Chapter 31 Printing.

Chapter 32 Using the Clipboard.

Chapter 33 Providing Drag and Drop.

Section VI Specialized Topics.

Chapter 34 Localizing Programs.

Chapter 35 Programming Databases, Part 1.

Chapter 36 Programming Databases, Part 2.

Chapter 37 LINQ to Objects.

Chapter 38 LINQ to SQL.

Chapter 39 Drawing with GDI+.

Chapter 40 Making WPF Applications.

Chapter 41 Printing with WPF.

Appendix A Glossary.

Appendix B Control Summary.

Appendix C What’s on the DVD?

Index.