- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents at a Glance
- Table of Contents
- Foreword
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- We Want to Hear from You!
- Reader Services
- Part I. Learning the Basics of VB
- Chapter 1. Introducing the .NET Framework 4.0
- Chapter 2. Getting Started with the Visual Studio 2010 IDE
- Chapter 3. The Anatomy of a Visual Basic Project
- Chapter 4. Data Types and Expressions
- Chapter 4. Data Types and Expressions
- Common Type System
- Understanding Value Types
- Understanding Reference Types
- Differences Between Value Types and Reference Types
- Converting Between Value Types and Reference Types
- Conversion Operators
- Working with .NET Fundamental Types
- Common Operators
- Iterations, Loops, and Conditional Code Blocks
- Chapter 5. Debugging Visual Basic 2010 Applications
- Chapter 6. Handling Errors and Exceptions
- Part II. Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic 2010
- 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
- Chapter 16. Working with Collections
- Understanding Collections Architecture
- Working with Nongeneric Collections
- The ArrayList Collection
- The Queue Collection
- The Stack Collection
- The HashTable Collection
- The ListDictionary Collection
- The OrderedDictionary Collection
- The SortedList Collection
- The HybridDictionary Collection
- The StringCollection Collection
- The StringDictionary Collection
- The NameValueCollection Collection
- The BitArray Collection
- The Bitvector32 Collection
- Working with Generic Collections
- The List(Of T) Collection
- Working with Collection Initializers
- The ReadOnlyCollection(Of T) Collection
- The Dictionary(Of TKey, TValue) Collection
- The SortedDictionary(Of TKey, TValue) Collection
- The ObservableCollection(Of T) Collection
- The ReadonlyObservableCollection(Of T) Collection
- The LinkedList(Of T) Collection
- The Queue(Of T) and Stack(Of T) Collections
- Building Custom Collections
- Concurrent Collections
- Chapter 17. Visually Designing Objects
- Chapter 18. “Generate From Usage” Coding Techniques
- Part III. Advanced VB Language features
- Chapter 19. Manipulating Files and Streams
- Chapter 20. The My Namespace
- Chapter 21. Advanced Language Features
- Part IV. Data Access with ADO.NET and LINQ
- Chapter 22. Introducing ADO.NET and DataSets
- Chapter 23. Introducing LINQ
- Chapter 24. LINQ to Objects
- Chapter 24. LINQ to Objects
- Introducing LINQ to Objects
- Querying in Memory Objects
- Introducing Standard Query Operators
- Projection Operators
- Restriction Operators
- Aggregation Operators
- Understanding the Let Keyword
- Conversion Operators
- Generation Operators
- Ordering Operators
- Set Operators
- Grouping Operators
- Union Operators
- Equality Operators
- Quantifiers
- Concatenation Operators
- Elements Operators
- Partitioning Operators
- Chapter 25. LINQ to SQL
- Chapter 26. LINQ to DataSets
- Chapter 27. Introducing ADO.NET Entity Framework
- Chapter 28. Manipulating Xml Documents with LINQ and Xml Literals
- Chapter 29. Overview of Parallel LINQ
- Part V. Building Windows Applications
- Chapter 30. Creating Windows Forms 4.0 Applications
- Chapter 31. Creating WPF Applications
- Chapter 31. Creating WPF Applications
- What Is WPF?
- WPF Architecture
- Building WPF Applications with Visual Studio 2010
- Understanding the eXtensible Application Markup Language (XAML)
- 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
- Chapter 32. WPF Common Controls
- Chapter 32. WPF Common Controls
- Introducing WPF Controls Features
- Understanding the ContentControl
- Understanding Common Controls
- Border
- Button
- Calendar
- CheckBox
- ComboBox
- DataGrid
- DatePicker
- DocumentViewer
- Ellipse
- Expander
- Frame
- GroupBox
- Image
- Label
- ListBox
- ListView
- MediaElement
- Menu
- PasswordBox
- ProgressBar
- RadioButton
- Rectangle
- RichTextBox
- ScrollBar
- ScrollViewer
- Separator
- Slider
- StatusBar
- TabControl
- TextBlock
- TextBox
- ToolBar
- TreeView
- WebBrowser
- WindowsFormsHost
- Using Common Dialogs
- Chapter 33. Brushes, Styles, Templates, and Animations in WPF
- Chapter 34. Manipulating Documents and Media
- Chapter 35. Introducing Data-Binding
- Chapter 36. Localizing Applications
- Part VI. Building Web Applications
- Chapter 37. Building ASP.NET Web Applications
- Chapter 38. Publishing ASP.NET Web Applications
- Chapter 39. Building Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight
- Chapter 39. Building Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight
- Introducing Silverlight
- Creating Silverlight Projects with Visual Basic 2010
- Adding Controls and Handling Events
- Playing Media
- Animating UI Elements
- Introducing Navigation Applications
- Introducing WCF RIA Services
- “Out of Browser” Applications
- Chapter 40. Building and Deploying Applications for Windows Azure
- Part VII. Networking and Exposing Data Through Networks
- Chapter 41. Creating and Consuming WCF Services
- Chapter 42. Implementing and Consuming WCF Data Services
- Part VIII. Advanced .NET Framework with VB 2010
- Chapter 43. Serialization
- Chapter 44. Processes and Multithreading
- Chapter 45. Parallel Programming
- Chapter 46. Working with Assemblies
- Chapter 47. Reflection
- Chapter 48. Coding Attributes
- Chapter 49. Platform Invokes and Interoperability with the COM Architecture
- Chapter 50. Documenting the Source Code
- Chapter 51. Advanced Compilations with MSBuild
- Chapter 52. Building Customizations for Microsoft Office
- Part IX. Applications Deployment
- Chapter 53. Understanding the Global Assembly Cache
- Chapter 54. Setup & Deployment Projects for Windows Installer
- Chapter 55. Deploying Applications with ClickOnce
- Part X. Mastering the Visual Studio 2010 IDE
- Chapter 56. Advanced IDE Features
- Chapter 57. Introducing the Visual Studio Extensibility
- Chapter 58. Advanced Analysis Tools
- Chapter 59. Testing Code with Unit Tests, Test-Driven Development, and Code Contracts
- Appendixes
- Index
Properties
Properties are characteristics of a type. For example, the previously shown class Person could have two properties, such as the first name and the last name:
Properties in Visual Basic 2010
Visual Basic 2010 introduces a new syntax for properties known as auto-implemented properties. To declare properties you need just the Property keyword without explicitly specifying getters and setters. This is discussed further in Chapter 7.
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