Visual Basic 2008: Programmer'S Reference

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Visual Basic 2008 Programmer's Reference is a language tutorial and a reference guide that provides basic material suitable for beginners and also includes in-depth content for more advanced developers. The second part of the book is a reference that quickly allows programmers to locate information for specific language features and quickly review the details of importantprogramming, objects, properties, methods, and events. Table of contents : Acknowledgments Introduction Part I IDE · Introduction to the IDE · Menus, Toolbars, and Windows · Customization · Windows Form Designer · WPF Designer · Visual Basic Code Editor · Debugging Part II Getting Started · Selecting Windows Forms Controls · Using Windows Forms Controls · Windows Forms · Selecting WPF Controls · Using WPF Controls · WPF Windows · Program and Module Structure · Data Types, Variables, and Constants · Operators · Subroutines and Functions · Program Control Statements · Error Handling · Database Controls and Objects · LINQ · Custom Controls · Drag and Drop, and the Clipboard · UAC Security Part III Object-Oriented Programming · OOP Concepts · Classes and Structures · Namespaces · Collection Classes · Generics Part IV Graphics · Drawing Basics · Brushes, Pens, and Paths · Text · Image Processing · Printing · Reporting Part V Interacting with the Environment · Configuration and Resources · Streams · File-System Objects · Windows Communication Foundation · Useful Namespaces Part VI Appendices · Useful Control Properties, Methods, and Events · Variable Declarations and Data Types · Operators · Subroutine and Function Declarations · Control Statements · Error Handling · Windows Forms Controls and Components · WPF Controls · Visual Basic Power Packs · Form Objects · Classes and Structures · LINQ · Generics · Graphics · Useful Exception Classes · Date and Time Format Specifiers · Other Format Specifiers · The Application Class · The My Namespace · Streams · File-System Classes · Index of Examples Market Description : · Beginning through intermediate-level Visual Basic programmers About Author : Rod Stephens is a VB programming guru, with more than 15 programming books to his credit, including Wrox Visual Basic 2005 Programmer's Reference. He also writes frequently for various magazines such as Visual Basic Developer, Visual Basic Programmer's Journal, and Dr. Dobb's Journal. Rod's VB Helper Website (vb-helper.com) receives several million hits per month and provides thousands of pages of tips, tricks, and code examples for VB programmers.