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Beginning Microsoft Visual Basic 2008
Thearon Willis, Bryan Newsome
ISBN: 978-0-470-19134-7
Paperback
912 pages
May 2008

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Chapter 1: Welcome to Visual Basic 2008

This is an exciting time to enter the world of programming with Visual Basic 2008 and Windows Vista. Windows Vista represents... more

Chapter 2: The Microsoft .NET Framework
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The .NET Framework provides an unprecedented platform for building Windows, web, and mobile applications with one or more... more

Chapter 3: Writing Software
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Now that you have Visual Basic 2008 up and running and even written a simple program, you’re going to look at the fundamentals... more

Chapter 4: Controlling the Flow
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In Chapter 3, you learned about algorithms and their role in programming. In this chapter, you’re going to look at how you... more

Chapter 5: Working with Data Structures
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In the previous chapters, you worked with simple data types, namely Integer and String variables. Although these data types... more

Chapter 6: Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
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In the past, user interface (UI) designers have often relied on tools like Adobe Dreamweaver and Photoshop to develop screen... more

Chapter 7: Building Windows Applications
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When Microsoft first released Visual Basic 1.0, developers fell in love with it, because it made building the user interface... more

Chapter 8: Displaying Dialog Boxes
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Visual Basic 2008 provides several built-in dialog boxes that help you provide a rich user interface in your front-end applications... more

Chapter 9: Creating Menus
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Menus are a part of every good application and provide not only an easy way to navigate within an application but also useful... more

Chapter 10: Debugging and Error Handling
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Debugging is an essential part of any development project, as it helps you find errors in your code and in your logic. Visual... more

Chapter 11: Building Objects
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You may have heard the term object oriented a lot since you first started using computers. You may also have heard that it... more

Chapter 12: Advanced Object-Oriented Techniques
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In Chapter 11, you looked at how you can build your own objects. Prior to that, you had been mostly using objects that already... more

Chapter 13: Building Class Libraries
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In this chapter, you’re going to look at building libraries of classes, a process that gathers many of the concepts covered... more

Chapter 14: Creating Windows Forms User Controls
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In this book, you have used many of the controls that come with the .NET Framework, from the Button and the TextBox controls... more

Chapter 15: Programming Custom Graphics
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So far, you have built user interfaces entirely from existing controls or controls that you created based on other controls... more

Chapter 16: Accessing Databases
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Most applications manipulate data in some way. Visual Basic 2008 applications often manipulate data that come from relational... more

Chapter 17: Database Programming with SQL Server and ADO.NET
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Chapter 16 introduced database programming. You obtained data from a single table in an Access database and displayed it... more

Chapter 18: ASP.NET
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As we look to the future, the Internet is sure to increase its presence in business. Developers need to gain knowledge of... more

Chapter 19: Web Projects
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In Chapter 18, you learned how to implement many pieces of the puzzle that is web development. Now, you put it all together... more

Chapter 20: Visual Basic 2008 and XML
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Put simply, Extensible Markup Language (XML) is used for exchanging data between applications. Although it has been around... more

Chapter 21: Distributed Computing with the Windows Communication Foundation
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With the release of the .NET Framework 3.0, came Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). WCF was the integration of distributed... more

Chapter 22: Building a Sequential Workflow Using the Windows Workflow Foundation
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According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workflow): “A workflow is a reliably repeatable pattern of activity... more

Chapter 23: Building Mobile Applications
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Mobile devices—more specifically, personal digital assistants (PDAs)—are being shipped to more and more people around the... more

Chapter 24: Deploying Your Application
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Deploying an application can be a complicated process, especially when dealing with large, complex applications. A wealth... more

Chapter 25: Where to Now?

Now that you have come to the end of this book, you should have a relatively good idea of how to write code using Visual... more

Appendix A: Exercise Solutions
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This appendix contains the solutions for the various chapter exercises found throughout the book.... more

Appendix B: Using the Microsoft Solutions Framework

So here you are, ready to go out into the world and build applications with Visual Basic 2008. Congratulate yourself; you... more

Appendix C: An Introduction to Code Security and SSL

In today’s electronic world, consumers are bombarded with scams via the Internet and e-mail. If you plan to write applications... more

Appendix D: An Introduction to Windows CardSpace

Microsoft has added a new feature to the .NET Framework 3.0: Windows CardSpace. (Formerly, this software was known as InfoCard... more

Appendix E: .NET Framework Differences

In this appendix we discuss two new versions of the .NET Framework: versions 3.0 and 3.5. Visual Studio 2005 was based on... more

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