Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2010

Evangelos Petroutsos is a computer engineer who has worked for the California Institute of Technology and MCI. Currently, he writes computer books and articles, teaches networking and programming courses, and works as a computer communications consultant. He is the author of the Sybex titles Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 and Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, among other books.

Introduction xxv Part 1 Visual Basic: The Language 1 Chapter 1 Getting Started with Visual Basic 2010 3 Chapter 2 Handling Data 37 Chapter 3 Visual Basic Programming Essentials 85 Part 2 Developing Windows Applications 127 Chapter 4 GUI Design and Event-Driven Programming129 Chapter 5 Basic Windows Controls 161 Chapter 6 Working with Forms 203 Chapter 7 More Windows Controls 253 Part 3 Working with Custom Classes and Controls303 Chapter 8 Working with Objects 305 Chapter 9 Building Custom Windows Controls 355 Chapter 10 Applied Object-Oriented Programming 387 Part 4 Working with the .NET Framework 431 Chapter 11 The Framework at Large 433 Chapter 12 Storing Data in Collections 493 Chapter 13 XML in Modern Programming 529 Chapter 14 An Introduction to LINQ 577 Part 5 Developing Data-Driven Applications629 Chapter 15 Programming with ADO.NET 631 Chapter 16 Developing Data-Driven Applications 687 Chapter 17 Using the Entity Data Model 725 Chapter 18 Building Data-Bound Applications 769 Part 6 Developing for the Web 813 Chapter 19 Accessing the Web 815 Chapter 20 Building Web Applications 845 Chapter 21 Building and Using Web Services 893 Appendix The Bottom Line 941 Index 987