- Copyright
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- CREDITS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- I. IDE
- 1. Introduction to the IDE
- 2. Menus, Toolbars, and Windows
- 3. Customization
- 4. Windows Forms Designer
- 5. WPF Designer
- 6. Visual Basic Code Editor
- 7. Debugging
- II. Getting Started
- 8. Selecting Windows Forms Controls
- 9. Using Windows Forms Controls
- 10. Windows Forms
- 11. Selecting WPF Controls
- 11.1. CONTROLS OVERVIEW
- 11.2. CONTAINING AND ARRANGING CONTROLS
- 11.3. MAKING SELECTIONS
- 11.4. ENTERING DATA
- 11.5. DISPLAYING DATA
- 11.6. PROVIDING FEEDBACK
- 11.7. INITIATING ACTION
- 11.8. PRESENTING GRAPHICS AND MEDIA
- 11.9. PROVIDING NAVIGATION
- 11.10. MANAGING DOCUMENTS
- 11.11. DIGITAL INK
- 11.12. SUMMARY
- 12. Using WPF Controls
- 13. WPF Windows
- 14. Program and Module Structure
- 14.1. HIDDEN FILES
- 14.2. CODE FILE STRUCTURE
- 14.3. TYPOGRAPHIC CODE ELEMENTS
- 14.4. SUMMARY
- 15. Data Types, Variables, and Constants
- 15.1. DATA TYPES
- 15.2. TYPE CHARACTERS
- 15.3. DATA TYPE CONVERSION
- 15.4. VARIABLE DECLARATIONS
- 15.5. INITIALIZING COLLECTIONS
- 15.6. OPTION EXPLICIT AND OPTION STRICT
- 15.7. SCOPE
- 15.8. PARAMETER DECLARATIONS
- 15.9. PROPERTY PROCEDURES
- 15.10. ENUMERATED DATA TYPES
- 15.11. ANONYMOUS TYPES
- 15.12. NULLABLE TYPES
- 15.13. CONSTANTS
- 15.14. DELEGATES
- 15.15. NAMING CONVENTIONS
- 15.16. SUMMARY
- 16. Operators
- 16.1. ARITHMETIC OPERATORS
- 16.2. CONCATENATION OPERATORS
- 16.3. COMPARISON OPERATORS
- 16.4. LOGICAL OPERATORS
- 16.5. BITWISE OPERATORS
- 16.6. OPERATOR PRECEDENCE
- 16.7. ASSIGNMENT OPERATORS
- 16.8. THE STRINGBUILDER CLASS
- 16.9. DATE AND TIMESPAN OPERATIONS
- 16.10. OPERATOR OVERLOADING
- 16.11. OPERATORS WITH NULLABLE TYPES
- 16.12. SUMMARY
- 17. Subroutines and Functions
- 17.1. SUBROUTINES
- 17.2. FUNCTIONS
- 17.3. PROPERTY PROCEDURES
- 17.4. EXTENSION METHODS
- 17.5. LAMBDA FUNCTIONS
- 17.6. RELAXED DELEGATES
- 17.7. PARTIAL METHODS
- 17.8. SUMMARY
- 18. Program Control Statements
- 19. Error Handling
- 20. Database Controls and Objects
- 20.1. AUTOMATICALLY CONNECTING TO DATA
- 20.2. AUTOMATICALLY CREATED OBJECTS
- 20.3. OTHER DATA OBJECTS
- 20.4. DATA OVERVIEW
- 20.5. CONNECTION OBJECTS
- 20.6. TRANSACTION OBJECTS
- 20.7. DATA ADAPTERS
- 20.8. COMMAND OBJECTS
- 20.9. DATAVIEW
- 20.10. DATAROWVIEW
- 20.11. SIMPLE DATA BINDING
- 20.12. CURRENCYMANAGER
- 20.13. COMPLEX DATA BINDING
- 20.14. SUMMARY
- 21. LINQ
- 22. Custom Controls
- 22.1. CUSTOM CONTROLS IN GENERAL
- 22.2. OTHER CUSTOM CONTROL TASKS
- 22.3. DERIVED CONTROLS
- 22.4. COMPOSITE CONTROLS
- 22.5. CONTROLS BUILT FROM SCRATCH
- 22.6. COMPONENTS
- 22.7. INVISIBLE CONTROLS
- 22.8. PICKING A CONTROL CLASS
- 22.9. CONTROLS AND COMPONENTS IN EXECUTABLE PROJECTS
- 22.10. CUSTOM COMPONENT SECURITY
- 22.11. SUMMARY
- 23. Drag and Drop, and the Clipboard
- 24. UAC Security
- III. Object-Oriented Programming
- 25. OOP Concepts
- 26. Classes and Structures
- 27. Namespaces
- 28. Collection Classes
- 29. Generics
- IV. Graphics
- 30. Drawing Basics
- 30.1. DRAWING OVERVIEW
- 30.2. DRAWING NAMESPACES
- 30.3. GRAPHICS
- 30.4. DRAWING EVENTS
- 30.5. SUMMARY
- 31. Brushes, Pens, and Paths
- 32. Text
- 33. Image Processing
- 34. Printing
- 30. Drawing Basics
- V. Interacting with the Environment
- 35. Configuration and Resources
- 36. Streams
- 37. File-System Objects
- 38. Windows Communication Foundation
- 39. Useful Namespaces
- VI. Appendices
- A. Useful Control Properties, Methods, and Events
- B. Variable Declarations and Data Types
- B.1. VARIABLE DECLARATIONS
- B.2. INITIALIZATION EXPRESSIONS
- B.3. WITH
- B.4. FROM
- B.5. USING
- B.6. ENUMERATED TYPE DECLARATIONS
- B.7. XML VARIABLES
- B.8. OPTION EXPLICIT AND OPTION STRICT
- B.9. OPTION INFER
- B.10. DATA TYPES
- B.11. DATA TYPE CHARACTERS
- B.12. LITERAL TYPE CHARACTERS
- B.13. DATA TYPE CONVERSION FUNCTIONS
- B.14. CTYPE AND DIRECTCAST
- C. Operators
- D. Subroutine and Function Declarations
- E. Control Statements
- F. Error Handling
- G. Windows Forms Controls and Components
- G.1. COMPONENTS' PURPOSES
- G.2. POINTER
- G.3. BACKGROUNDWORKER
- G.4. BINDINGNAVIGATOR
- G.5. BINDINGSOURCE
- G.6. BUTTON
- G.7. CHECKBOX
- G.8. CHECKEDLISTBOX
- G.9. COLORDIALOG
- G.10. COMBOBOX
- G.11. CONTEXTMENUSTRIP
- G.12. DATAGRIDVIEW
- G.13. DATASET
- G.14. DATETIMEPICKER
- G.15. DIRECTORYENTRY
- G.16. DIRECTORYSEARCHER
- G.17. DOMAINUPDOWN
- G.18. ERRORPROVIDER
- G.19. EVENTLOG
- G.20. FILESYSTEMWATCHER
- G.21. FLOWLAYOUTPANEL
- G.22. FOLDERBROWSERDIALOG
- G.23. FONTDIALOG
- G.24. GROUPBOX
- G.25. HELPPROVIDER
- G.26. HSCROLLBAR
- G.27. IMAGELIST
- G.28. LABEL
- G.29. LINKLABEL
- G.30. LISTBOX
- G.31. LISTVIEW
- G.32. MASKEDTEXTBOX
- G.33. MENUSTRIP
- G.34. MESSAGEQUEUE
- G.35. MONTHCALENDAR
- G.36. NOTIFYICON
- G.37. NUMERICUPDOWN
- G.38. OPENFILEDIALOG
- G.39. PAGESETUPDIALOG
- G.40. PANEL
- G.41. PERFORMANCECOUNTER
- G.42. PICTUREBOX
- G.43. PRINTDIALOG
- G.44. PRINTDOCUMENT
- G.45. PRINTPREVIEWCONTROL
- G.46. PRINTPREVIEWDIALOG
- G.47. PROCESS
- G.48. PROGRESSBAR
- G.49. PROPERTYGRID
- G.50. RADIOBUTTON
- G.51. RICHTEXTBOX
- G.52. SAVEFILEDIALOG
- G.53. SERIALPORT
- G.54. SERVICECONTROLLER
- G.55. SPLITCONTAINER
- G.56. SPLITTER
- G.57. STATUSSTRIP
- G.58. TABCONTROL
- G.59. TABLELAYOUTPANEL
- G.60. TEXTBOX
- G.61. TIMER
- G.62. TOOLSTRIP
- G.63. TOOLSTRIPCONTAINER
- G.64. TOOLTIP
- G.65. TRACKBAR
- G.66. TREEVIEW
- G.67. VSCROLLBAR
- G.68. WEBBROWSER
- H. WPF Controls
- I. Visual Basic Power Packs
- J. Form Objects
- K. Classes and Structures
- L. LINQ
- M. Generics
- N. Graphics
- O. Useful Exception Classes
- P. Date and Time Format Specifiers
- Q. Other Format Specifiers
- R. The Application Class
- S. The My Namespace
- T. Streams
- U. File-System Classes
- V. Index of Examples
Rod is a Microsoft Visual Basic Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and ITT adjunct instructor. He has written more than 20 books that have been translated into languages from all over the world, and more than 250 magazine articles covering Visual Basic, C#, Visual Basic for Applications, Delphi, and Java. He is currently a regular contributor to DevX (www.DevX.com).
Rod's popular VB Helper web site www.vb-helper.com receives several million hits per month and contains thousands of pages of tips, tricks, and example code for Visual Basic programmers, as well as example code for this book.
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