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Visual Basic. NET How to Program

by: Deitel, Harvey M.; Deitel, Paul J.; Nieto, Tem R.

Visual Basic. NET How to Program

by: Deitel, Harvey M.; Deitel, Paul J.; Nieto, Tem R.

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0130293636
Edition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2002
Publisher: PRENTICE HALL
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For introductory and intermediate courses on Visual Basic programming offered in departments of Computer Science, CIS, MIS, IT, Business, Engineering, and Continuing Education. Teach Visual Basic .NET programming from the ground up! The introduction of Microsoft's .NET Framework marks the beginning of major revisions to all of Microsoft's programming languages. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the latest version of Visual BasicVisual Basic .NETwhich features extensive updates and increased functionality. Visual Basic .NET How to Program covers introductory programming techniques as well as more advanced topics, featuring enhanced treatment of developing Web-based applications.

Illustrations	p. xxviii
Preface	p. xxxvii
Introduction to Computers, Internet and Visual Basic .NET	p. 1
Introduction	p. 2
What Is a Computer?	p. 3
Computer Organization	p. 4
Evolution of Operating Systems	p. 5
Personal Computing, Distributed Computing and Client/Server Computing	p. 5
Machine Languages, Assembly Languages and High-Level Languages	p. 6
Visual Basic .NET	p. 7
C, C++, Java and C#	p. 9
Other High-Level Languages	p. 10
Structured Programming	p. 10
Key Software Trend: Object Technology	p. 11
Hardware Trends	p. 13
History of the Internet and World Wide Web	p. 14
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)	p. 15
Extensible Markup Language (XML)	p. 16
Introduction to Microsoft .NET	p. 17
.NET Framework and the Common Language Runtime	p. 18
Tour of the Book	p. 20
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	p. 29
Introduction to the Visual Studio .NET IDE	p. 33
Introduction	p. 34
Overview of the Visual Studio .NET IDE	p. 34
Menu Bar and Toolbar	p. 37
Visual Studio .NET IDE Windows	p. 39
Using Help	p. 44
Simple Program: Displaying Text and an Image	p. 45
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	p. 55
Introduction to Visual Basic Programming	p. 61
Introduction	p. 62
Simple Program: Printing a Line of Text	p. 62
Another Simple Program: Adding Integers	p. 70
Memory Concepts	p. 73
Arithmetic	p. 74
Decision Making: Equality and Relational Operators	p. 78
Using a Dialog to Display a Message	p. 82
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	p. 88
Control Structures	p. 96
Introduction	p. 97
Algorithms	p. 97
Pseudocode	p. 98
Control Structures	p. 98
If/Then Selection Structure	p. 102
If/Then/Else Selection Structure	p. 104
While Repetition Structure	p. 106
Do While/Loop Repetition Structure	p. 108
Do Until/Loop Repetition Structure	p. 109
Assignment Operators	p. 110
Formulating Algorithms: Case Study 1 (Counter-Controlled Repetition)	p. 112
Formulating Algorithms with Top-Down, Stepwise Refinement: Case Study 2 (Sentinel-Controlled Repetition)	p. 114
Formulating Algorithms with Top-Down, Stepwise Refinement: Case Study 3 (Nested Control Structures)	p. 119
Formulating Algorithms with Top-Down, Stepwise Refinement: Case Study 4 (Nested Repetition Structures)	p. 123
Introduction to Windows Application Programming	p. 127
Control Structures: Part 2	p. 144
Introduction	p. 145
Essentials of Counter-Controlled Repetition	p. 145
For/Next Repetition Structure	p. 146
Examples Using the For/Next Structure	p. 149
Select Case Multiple-Selection Structure	p. 155
Do/Loop While Repetition Structure	p. 159
Do/Loop Until Repetition Structure	p. 160
Using the Exit Keyword in a Repetition Structure	p. 162
Logical Operators	p. 164
Structured Programming Summary	p. 170
Procedures	p. 182
Introduction	p. 183
Modules, Classes and Procedures	p. 183
Sub Procedures	p. 185
Function Procedures	p. 188
Methods	p. 190
Argument Promotion	p. 195
Option Strict and Data-Type Conversions	p. 196
Value Types and Reference Types	p. 198
Passing Arguments: Pass-by-Value vs. Pass-by-Reference	p. 200
Duration of Identifiers	p. 202
Scope Rules	p. 203
Random-Number Generation	p. 206
Example: Game of Chance	p. 213
Recursion	p. 218
Example Using Recursion: Fibonacci Series	p. 221
Recursion vs. Iteration	p. 225
Procedure Overloading and Optional Arguments	p. 226
Modules	p. 231
Arrays	p. 245
Introduction	p. 246
Arrays	p. 246
Declaring and Allocating Arrays	p. 248
Examples Using Arrays	p. 249
Passing Arrays to Procedures	p. 260
Passing Arrays: ByVal vs. ByRef	p. 264
Sorting Arrays	p. 268
Searching Arrays: Linear Search and Binary Search	p. 272
Multidimensional Rectangular and Jagged Arrays	p. 279
Variable-Length Parameter Lists	p. 287
For Each/Next Repetition Structure	p. 288
Object-Based Programming	p. 296
Introduction	p. 297
Implementing a Time Abstract Data Type with a Class	p. 298
Class Scope	p. 306
Controlling Access to Members	p. 306
Initializing Class Objects: Constructors	p. 308
Using Overloaded Constructors	p. 308
Properties	p. 314
Composition: Objects as Instance Variables of Other Classes	p. 321
Using the Me Reference	p. 324
Garbage Collection	p. 326
Shared Class Members	p. 327
Const and ReadOnly Members	p. 331
Data Abstraction and Information Hiding	p. 334
Software Reusability	p. 335
Namespaces and Assemblies	p. 336
Class View and Object Browser	p. 340
Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance	p. 349
Introduction	p. 350
Base Classes and Derived Classes	p. 351
Protected and Friend Members	p. 354
Relationship between Base Classes and Derived Classes	p. 354
Case Study: Three-Level Inheritance Hierarchy	p. 372
Constructors and Finalizers in Derived Classes	p. 376
Software Engineering with Inheritance	p. 382
Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism	p. 388
Introduction	p. 389
Derived-Class-Object to Base-Class-Object Conversion	p. 389
Type Fields and Select Case Statements	p. 396
Polymorphism Examples	p. 397
Abstract Classes and Methods	p. 398
Case Study: Inheriting Interface and Implementation	p. 400
Not Inheritable Classes and NotOverridable Methods	p. 408
Case Study: Payroll System Using Polymorphism	p. 409
Case Study: Creating and Using Interfaces	p. 419
Delegates	p. 432
Exception Handling	p. 441
Introduction	p. 442
Exception Handling Overview	p. 443
Example: DivideByZeroException	p. 446
.NET Exception Hierarchy	p. 450
Finally Block	p. 452
Exception Properties	p. 459
Programmer-Defined Exception Classes	p. 464
Handling Overflows	p. 468
Graphical User Interface Concepts	p. 475
Introduction	p. 476
Windows Forms	p. 478
Event-Handling Model	p. 480
Control Properties and Layout	p. 487
Labels, TextBoxes and Buttons	p. 491
GroupBoxes and Panels	p. 494
CheckBoxes and RadioButtons	p. 497
PictureBoxes	p. 508
Mouse-Event Handling	p. 510
Keyboard-Event Handling	p. 513
Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 2	p. 523
Introduction	p. 524
Menus	p. 524
LinkLabels	p. 534
ListBoxes and CheckedListBoxes	p. 538
ComboBoxes	p. 545
TreeViews	p. 550
ListViews	p. 555
Tab Control	p. 562
Multiple-Document-Interface (MDI) Windows	p. 567
Visual Inheritance	p. 576
User-Defined Controls	p. 580
Multithreading	p. 592
Introduction	p. 593
Thread States: Life Cycle of a Thread	p. 595
Thread Priorities and Thread Scheduling	p. 596
Thread Synchronization and Class Monitor	p. 601
Producer/Consumer Relationship without Thread Synchronization	p. 603
Producer/Consumer Relationship with Thread Synchronization	p. 609
Producer/Consumer Relationship: Circular Buffer	p. 618
Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions	p. 633
Introduction	p. 634
Fundamentals of Characters and Strings	p. 634
String Constructors	p. 635
String Length and Chars Properties, and CopyTo Method	p. 637
Comparing Strings	p. 639
String Method GetHashCode	p. 643
Locating Characters and Substrings in Strings	p. 644
Extracting Substrings from Strings	p. 647
Concatenating Strings	p. 648
Miscellaneous String Methods	p. 649
Class StringBuilder	p. 651
StringBuilder Indexer, Length and Capacity Properties, and EnsureCapacity Method	p. 652
StringBuilder Append and AppendFormat Methods	p. 654
StringBuilder Insert, Remove and Replace Methods	p. 657
Char Methods	p. 660
Card Shuffling and Dealing Simulation	p. 663
Regular Expressions and Class Regex	p. 667
Graphics and Multimedia	p. 683
Introduction	p. 684
Graphics Contexts and Graphics Objects	p. 686
Color Control	p. 687
Font Control	p. 694
Drawing Lines, Rectangles and Ovals	p. 699
Drawing Arcs	p. 702
Drawing Polygons and Polylines	p. 705
Advanced Graphics Capabilities	p. 709
Introduction to Multimedia	p. 714
Loading, Displaying and Scaling Images	p. 714
Animating a Series of Images	p. 716
Windows Media Player	p. 729
Microsoft Agent	p. 731
Files and Streams	p. 752
Introduction	p. 753
Data Hierarchy	p. 753
Files and Streams	p. 755
Classes File and Directory	p. 757
Creating a Sequential-Access File	p. 767
Reading Data from a Sequential-Access File	p. 778
Random-Access Files	p. 789
Creating a Random-Access File	p. 794
Writing Data Randomly to a Random-Access File	p. 797
Reading Data Sequentially from a Random-Access File	p. 802
Case Study: A Transaction-Processing Program	p. 807
Extensible Markup Language (XML)	p. 833
Introduction	p. 834
XML Documents	p. 834
XML Namespaces	p. 839
Document Object Model (DOM)	p. 842
Document Type Definitions (DTDs), Schemas and Validation	p. 860
Extensible Stylesheet Language and XslTransform	p. 870
Microsoft BizTalk	p. 877
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	p. 880
Database, SQL and ADO .NET	p. 887
Introduction	p. 888
Relational Database Model	p. 889
Relational Database Overview: Books Database	p. 890
Structured Query Language (SQL)	p. 896
ADO .NET Object Model	p. 912
Programming with ADO .NET: Extracting Information from a DBMS	p. 913
Programming with ADO .NET: Modifying a DBMS	p. 923
Reading and Writing XML Files	p. 932
ASP .NET, Web Forms and Web Controls	p. 941
Introduction	p. 942
Simple HTTP Transaction	p. 943
System Architecture	p. 945
Creating and Running a Simple Web-Form Example	p. 946
Web Controls	p. 958
Session Tracking	p. 979
Case Study: Online Guest book	p. 998
Case Study: Connecting to a Database in ASP .NET	p. 1004
Tracing	p. 1019
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	p. 1021
ASP .NET and Web Services	p. 1030
Introduction	p. 1031
Web Services	p. 1032
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Web Services	p. 1036
Publishing and Consuming Web Services	p. 1037
Session Tracking in Web Services	p. 1053
Using Web Forms and Web Services	p. 1066
Case Study: Temperature Information Application	p. 1072
User-Defined Types in Web Services	p. 1081
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	p. 1091
Networking: Streams-Based Sockets and Datagrams	p. 1096
Introduction	p. 1097
Establishing a Simple Server (Using Stream Sockets)	p. 1098
Establishing a Simple Client (Using Stream Sockets)	p. 1100
Client/Server Interaction via Stream-Socket Connections	p. 1101
Connectionless Client/Server Interaction via Datagrams	p. 1110
Client/Server Tic-Tac-Toe Using a Multithreaded Server	p. 1116
Data Structures and Collections	p. 1136
Introduction	p. 1137
Self-Referential Classes	p. 1137
Linked Lists	p. 1139
Stacks	p. 1152
Queues	p. 1156
Trees	p. 1160
Collection Classes	p. 1175
Accessibility	p. 1203
Introduction	p. 1204
Regulations and Resources	p. 1205
Web Accessibility Initiative	p. 1207
Providing Alternatives for Images	p. 1208
Maximizing Readability by Focusing on Structure	p. 1209
Accessibility in Visual Studio .NET	p. 1209
Accessibility in Visual Basic	p. 1215
Accessibility in XHTML Tables	p. 1221
Accessibility in XHTML Frames	p. 1225
Accessibility in XML	p. 1226
Using Voice Synthesis and Recognition with VoiceXML	p. 1226
CallXML	p. 1233
JAWS for Windows	p. 1240
Other Accessibility Tools	p. 1240
Accessibility in Microsoft Windows 2000	p. 1241
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	p. 1255
Operator Precedence Chart	p. 1264
Number Systems (on CD)	p. 1266
Introduction	p. 1267
Abbreviating Binary Numbers as Octal Numbers and Hexadecimal Numbers	p. 1270
Converting Octal Numbers and Hexadecimal Numbers to Binary Numbers	p. 1272
Converting from Binary, Octal or Hexadecimal to Decimal	p. 1272
Converting from Decimal to Binary, Octal or Hexadecimal	p. 1273
Negative Binary Numbers: Two's Complement Notation	p. 1274
Career Opportunities (on CD)	p. 1280
Introduction	p. 1281
Resources for the Job Seeker	p. 1282
Online Opportunities for Employers	p. 1283
Recruiting Services	p. 1288
Career Sites	p. 1289
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	p. 1294
Visual Studio .NET Debugger	p. 1302
Introduction	p. 1303
Breakpoints	p. 1304
Examining Data	p. 1306
Program Control	p. 1308
Additional Procedure Debugging Capabilities	p. 1312
Additional Class Debugging Capabilities	p. 1314
ASCII Character Set	p. 1319
Unicode (on CD)	p. 1320
Introduction	p. 1321
Unicode Transformation Formats	p. 1322
Characters and Glyphs	p. 1323
Advantages/Disadvantages of Unicode	p. 1324
Unicode Consortium's Web Site	p. 1324
Using Unicode	p. 1325
Character Ranges	p. 1327
COM Integration (on CD)	p. 1332
Introduction	p. 1332
ActiveX Integration	p. 1333
DLL Integration	p. 1337
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	p. 1341
Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part 1 (on CD)	p. 1344
Introduction	p. 1345
Markup Languages	p. 1345
Editing HTML	p. 1346
Common Elements	p. 1346
Headers	p. 1349
Linking	p. 1350
Images	p. 1352
Special Characters and More Line Breaks	p. 1356
Unordered Lists	p. 1358
Nested and Ordered Lists	p. 1359
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	p. 1362
Introduction to HyperText Markup Language 4: Part 2 (on CD)	p. 1367
Introduction	p. 1368
Basic HTML Tables	p. 1368
Intermediate HTML Tables and Formatting	p. 1370
Basic HTML Forms	p. 1373
More Complex HTML Forms	p. 1376
Internal Linking	p. 1383
Creating and Using Image Maps	p. 1386
[left angle bracket]meta[right angle bracket] Tags	p. 1388
frameset Element	p. 1390
Nested framesets	p. 1392
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	p. 1394
Introduction to XHTML (on CD)	p. 1400
Introduction	p. 1401
Editing XHTML	p. 1401
First XHTML Example	p. 1402
W3C XHTML Validation Service	p. 1405
Headers	p. 1406
Linking	p. 1408
Images	p. 1411
Special Characters and More Line Breaks	p. 1415
Unordered Lists	p. 1417
Nested and Ordered Lists	p. 1418
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	p. 1421
Introduction to XHTML: Part 2 (on CD)	p. 1426
Introduction	p. 1427
Basic XHTML Tables	p. 1427
Intermediate XHTML Tables and Formatting	p. 1430
Basic XHTML Forms	p. 1432
More Complex XHTML Forms	p. 1435
Internal Linking	p. 1443
Creating and Using Image Maps	p. 1446
meta Elements	p. 1448
frameset Element	p. 1449
Nested framesets	p. 1454
Internet and World Wide Web Resources	p. 1456
HTML/XHTML Special Characters	p. 1462
HTML/XHTML Colors	p. 1463
Crystal Reports for Visual Studio .NET	p. 1466
Introduction	p. 1466
Crystal Reports Web Site Resources	p. 1466
Crystal Reports and Visual Studio .NET	p. 1467
Bibliography	p. 1471
Index	p. 1475
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