Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2010 (eBook)

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