Visual Basic 2005 Programmer's Reference (eBook)

Rod Stephens started out as a mathematician but, whilestudying at MIT, discovered the joys of programming and has beenprogramming professionally ever since. During his career, he hasworked on an eclectic assortment of applications in such fields astelephone switching, billing, repair dispatching, tax processing,wastewater treatment, and training for professional footballplayers.Rod has written 14 books that have been translated into half adozen different languages, and more than 200 magazine articlescovering Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, Delphi, andJava. He is currently a columnist for Visual Basic Developer(www.pinnaclepublishing.com).Rod's popular VB Helper Web site (www.vb-helper.com)receives several million hits per month and contains thousands ofpages of tips, tricks, and example code for Visual Basicprogrammers, as well as example code for this book.

Acknowledgments.Introduction.Chapter 1: IDE.Chapter 2: Controls in General.Chapter 3: Program and Module Structure.Chapter 4: Data Types, Variables, and Constants.Chapter 5: Operators.Chapter 6: Subroutines and Functions.Chapter 7: Program Control Statements.Chapter 8: Error Handling.Chapter 9: Introduction to Windows Forms Controls.Chapter 10: Forms.Chapter 11: Database Controls and Objects.Chapter 12: Custom Controls.Chapter 13: Drag and Drop, and the Clipboard.Chapter 14: OOP Concepts.Chapter 15: Classes and Structures.Chapter 16: Namespaces.Chapter 17: Collection Classes.Chapter 18: Generics.Chapter 19: Drawing Basics.Chapter 20: Brushes, Pens, and Paths.Chapter 21: Text.Chapter 22: Image Processing.Chapter 23: Printing.Chapter 24: Reporting.Chapter 25: Configuration and Resources.Chapter 26: Streams.Chapter 27: File-System Objects.Chapter 28: Useful Namespaces.Appendix A: Useful Control Properties, Methods, and Events.Appendix B: Variable Declarations and Data Types.Appendix C: Operators.Appendix D: Subroutine and Function Declarations.Appendix E: Control Statements.Appendix F: Error Handling.Appendix G: Standard Controls and Components.Appendix H: Form Objects.Appendix I: Classes and Structures.Appendix J: Generics.Appendix K: Graphics.Appendix L: Useful Exception Classes.Appendix M: Date and Time Format Specifiers.Appendix N: Other Format Specifiers.Appendix O: The Application Class.Appendix P: The My Namespace.Appendix Q: Streams.Appendix R: File-System Classes.Index.