Fluent Visual Basic

Rebecca M. Riordan has an international reputation as an author and application architect. Her ability to make complex technical subjects accessible and understandable has earned her books a devoted following. In 2004, her book, Seeing Data: Designing User Interfaces for Database Systems Using .NET was nominated for the prestigious Jolt award.

Getting Started

Introduction.     1

Fluent Learning Because

This book isn’t for everyone

What you’ll learn

What you’ll need

How it works

1  Application Development     9

The development process

System design

Creating executables

2  The .NET Platform      43

.NET Components

Say hello

Say what?

3  The Visual Studio UI. 67

Solutions, projects and stuff

Take control

Get some help

4  Testing & Deployment     93

Errors & exceptions

Deployment

The Language

5  Part 1: Nouns     121

Statements

Declared elements

Comments

Directives & Attributes

6  Part 2: Transitive Verbs     155

Literal expressions

Object expressions

7  Part 3: Intransitive Verbs      181

Control of flow commands

Exception handling commands

The .NET Framework Library

8  Classes in the .NET Framework 221

The Class Designer

Class definitions

Fields & properties

Methods

9  Other Framework Types      269

Structures

Enumerations

Interfaces

Working with types

10  The Class Library, Part 1     305

Namespaces

The Object Browser

Numeric data

Character data

Times & dates

11  The Class Library, Part 2     349

Arrays

Specialized Sets

Generics

Best Practice

12  OOA & D.     381

Type relationships

OOP principles

Type modifiers

13  Programming Principles      425

The Single Responsibility Principle

The Open/Closed Principle

The Liskov Substitution Principle

The Law of Demeter

14  Patterns     457

The Strategy Pattern

The Observer Pattern

Architectural Patterns

WPF

15  XAML     501

Fundamentals

WPF types

XAML & Visual Basic

16  WPF Controls     531

WPF panels

Control classes

Content controls

Items controls

17  Dependency Properties      591

The basics

Creating dependency properties

18  WPF Interactions      627

Routed events

WPF Commands

19  WPF Graphics      669

Color

Brushes

Pens

Typography

Effects

20  Resources      719

Resource dictionaries

Styles

Property triggerrs

Event triggers

21  Templates     765

Building controls

Building control templates

The VisualStateManager

22  WPF Binding     797

Creating bindings

Binding to collections

Working with collections

Index    846