Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Step by Step

Michael Halvorson has written more than 30 books, including the popular Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Step by Step, Microsoft Office XP Inside Out, and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Step by Step. A former Visual Basic localization manager at Microsoft, Michael is a professor at Pacific Lutheran University.

Part 1: Getting started with Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 1 Exploring the Visual Studio integrated Development Environment 2 Writing Your First Program 3 Working with Toolbox Controls 4 Working with menus, toolbars, and dialog boxes Part 2: Programming Fundamentals 5 Visual Basic Variables and Formulas, and the .NET Framework 6 Using Detection Structures 7 Using Loops and Timers 8 Debugging Visual Basic programs 9 Trapping Errors by Using Structured Error Handling 10 Creating Modules and Procedures 11 Using Arrays to Manage Numeric and String Data 12 Working with Collections and the System.Collections Namespace 13 Exploring Text Files and String Processing Part 3: Designing the User Interface 14 Managing Windows Forms and Controls at Run Time 15 Adding Graphics and Animation Effects 16 Inheriting Forms and Creating Base Classes 17 Working with Printers Part 4: Database and Web Programming 18 Getting Started with ADO.NET 19 Data presentation using the DataGridView Control 20 Creating Web sites and web pages by using visual web developer and ASP.NET