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by Joel Semeniuk, Erik Porter, Andy Baron, Duncan Mackenzie
Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET 2003 Kick Start
Copyright
About the Author
About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
We Want to Hear from You!
Introduction
What Is .NET?
What has Changed from Visual Basic 6 to Visual Basic .NET?
What This Book Covers
Introducing Visual Basic .NET 2003
Getting Ready to Code
Introducing the New IDE
Creating Your First Windows Application
In Brief
Visual Basic .NET Language Changes
Key Changes
New and Changed “Option” Statements
Changes to Variable Declaration
Arrays
Data Type Changes
Miscellaneous Changes
References, Namespaces, and Imports
Should You Use Existing Visual Basic Syntax or the New .NET Equivalents?
In Brief
Building Windows Applications
The Way Things Were
The Windows Forms Model
Handling Events in .NET
Coding Without Control Arrays
Configuring Your Form for Resizing
Programming Without Default Form Instances
Working with Multiple Forms in VB .NET
In Brief
Working with Files
The Way Things Were
Using Streams
Reading and Writing to Streams
Reading and Writing to a Text File
Working with the File System
Using Structured Exception Handling Instead of On Error
In Brief
Data Binding
Working with Data
What's New in ADO.NET?
Retrieving Data
Data Binding in Windows Forms
Using the CurrencyManager to Manage your Data Binding
Formatting Bound Data
In Brief
Data Without the Binding
Data: What's Next?
Learning the Inner Workings of ADO.NET
Updating Data
Advanced Data Topics
In Brief
Object-Oriented Programming in Visual Basic .NET
What Is Object-Oriented Programming and Why Is it Important?
New OOP Features in Visual Basic .NET
In Brief
Building Custom Controls
Control Development Changes in .NET
Extending Through Inheritance
Combining Controls
Drawing Your Own Interface
Creating Non-Visual Controls
In Brief
Integrating with COM
COM and .NET Interoperability
Important COM Interop Concepts
Accessing COM Objects from Visual Basic .NET
Using ActiveX Controls on VB .NET Forms
Exposing VB .NET Objects to COM Clients
Some Additional Considerations
In Brief
Advanced Topics
What Makes These Topics Advanced?
Introducing ASP.NET and Web Forms
Using XML in Visual Basic .NET
Learning About Web Services
In Brief
The Upgrade Challenge
Deciding Whether to Upgrade
Planning Your Upgrade
The Code Advisor for Visual Basic 6.0
Resolving Architectural Issues
Upgrading
Summary
Index
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