- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- About the Author
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Part I: Learning the Basics of VB
- Chapter 1. Introducing the .NET Framework 4.5
- Chapter 2. Getting Started with the Visual Studio 2012 IDE
- Chapter 3. The Anatomy of a Visual Basic Project
- Chapter 4. Data Types and Expressions
- Introducing the Common Type System
- Understanding Value Types
- Understanding Reference Types
- Differences Between Value Types and Reference Types
- Converting Between Value Types and Reference Types
- Understanding Conversion Operators
- Working with .NET Fundamental Types
- Common Operators
- Iterations, Loops, and Conditional Code Blocks
- Summary
- Chapter 5. Debugging Visual Basic 2012 Applications
- Chapter 6. Handling Errors and Exceptions
- Part II: Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic 2012
- Chapter 7. Class Fundamentals
- Chapter 8. Managing an Object’s Lifetime
- Chapter 9. Organizing Types Within Namespaces
- Chapter 10. Modules
- Chapter 11. Structures and Enumerations
- Chapter 12. Inheritance
- Chapter 13. Interfaces
- Chapter 14. Generics and Nullable Types
- Chapter 15. Delegates and Events
- Chapter 16. Working with Collections and Iterators
- Chapter 17. Creating Objects: Visual Tools and Portable Libraries
- Part III: Advanced Language Features
- Part IV: Data Access with ADO.NET and LINQ
- Part V: Building Windows Desktop Applications
- Chapter 28. Creating WPF Applications
- What Is WPF?
- Introducing the WPF Architecture
- Building WPF Applications with Visual Studio 2012
- Understanding the eXtensible Application Markup Language
- Understanding Visual Tree and Logical Tree
- Handling Events in WPF
- Arranging Controls with Panels
- Managing Windows
- Introducing the Application Object
- Brief Overview of WPF Browser Applications
- Summary
- Chapter 29. WPF Common Controls
- Chapter 30. Brushes, Styles, Templates, and Animations in WPF
- Chapter 31. Manipulating Media and Documents
- Chapter 32. Introducing Data-Binding
- Chapter 33. Localizing Applications
- Chapter 28. Creating WPF Applications
- Part VI: Building Web Applications
- Chapter 34. Building ASP.NET Web Applications
- Chapter 35. Publishing ASP.NET Web Applications
- Chapter 36. Building Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight 5
- Introducing Silverlight
- Creating Silverlight Projects with Visual Basic 2012
- Adding Controls and Handling Events
- Playing Media
- Animating UI Elements
- Introducing Navigation Applications
- Introducing WCF RIA Services
- “Out-of-Browser” Applications
- XAML Debugging
- Additional New Features in Silverlight 5
- Summary
- Chapter 37. Building and Deploying Applications for Windows Azure
- Chapter 38. Building Apps for Windows Phone 7.5
- Part VII: Networking and Exposing Data Through Networks
- Part VIII: Advanced .NET Framework with VB 2012
- Chapter 41. Serialization
- Chapter 42. Processes and Multithreading
- Chapter 43. Parallel Programming and Parallel LINQ
- Chapter 44. Asynchronous Programming
- Overview of Asynchrony
- Before .NET 4.5: Event-based Asynchrony
- Before .NET 4.5: The Asynchronous Programming Model
- .NET 4.5: Introducing the Async Pattern
- Getting Started with Async/Await
- Exception Handling in Async
- Implementing Task-based Asynchrony
- Cancellation and Progress
- Asynchronous Lambda Expressions
- Asynchronous I/O File Operations in .NET 4.5
- Summary
- Chapter 45. Working with Assemblies
- Chapter 46. Reflection
- Chapter 47. Coding Attributes
- Chapter 48. Platform Invokes and Interoperability with the COM Architecture
- Chapter 49. Documenting the Source Code with XML Comments
- Part IX: Applications Deployment
- Part X: Mastering the Visual Studio 2012 IDE
- Appendix
- Index
- Ad Pages
About the Author
Alessandro Del Sole, a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Visual Basic since 2008, is well known throughout the global VB community. He is a community leader on the Italian Visual Basic Tips and Tricks website (http://www.visual-basic.it) that serves more than 42,000 VB developers, as well as a frequent contributor to the MSDN Visual Basic Developer Center. He enjoys writing articles on .NET development, writing blog posts on both his Italian and English blogs, and producing instructional videos as well as apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone. You can find him online in forums or newsgroups. Alessandro has been awarded MVP of the Year for Visual Basic in 2009, 2010, and 2011.
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