Beginning Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2010 -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOR -- CREDITS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1: Welcome to Visual Basic 2010 -- EVENT-DRIVEN PROGRAMMING -- INSTALLING VISUAL BASIC 2010 -- THE VISUAL STUDIO 2010 IDE -- CREATING A SIMPLE APPLICATION -- USING THE HELP SYSTEM -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 2: The Microsoft .NET Framework -- MICROSOFT'S RELIANCE ON WINDOWS -- WRITING SOFTWARE FOR WINDOWS -- COMMON LANGUAGE RUNTIME -- THE COMMON TYPE SYSTEM AND COMMON LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 3: Writing Software -- INFORMATION AND DATA -- WORKING WITH VARIABLES -- COMMENTS AND WHITESPACE -- DATA TYPES -- STORING VARIABLES -- METHODS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 4: Controlling the Flow -- MAKING DECISIONS -- THE IF STATEMENT -- SELECT CASE -- LOOPS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 5: Working with Data Structures -- UNDERSTANDING ARRAYS -- UNDERSTANDING ENUMERATIONS -- UNDERSTANDING CONSTANTS -- STRUCTURES -- WORKING WITH ARRAYLISTS -- WORKING WITH COLLECTIONS -- BUILDING LOOKUP TABLES WITH HASHTABLE -- ADVANCED ARRAY MANIPULATION -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 6: Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML) -- WHAT IS XAML? -- XAML SYNTAX -- WINDOWS PRESENTATION FOUNDATION -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 7: Building Windows Applications -- RESPONDING TO EVENTS -- BUILDING A SIMPLE APPLICATION -- COUNTING CHARACTERS -- COUNTING WORDS -- CREATING MORE COMPLEX APPLICATIONS -- CREATING THE TOOLBAR -- CREATING THE STATUS BAR -- CREATING AN EDIT BOX -- CLEARING THE EDIT BOX -- RESPONDING TO TOOLBAR BUTTONS -- USING MULTIPLE FORMS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 8: Displaying Dialog Boxes -- THE MESSAGEBOX -- THE OPENFILEDIALOG CONTROL -- THE SAVEDIALOG CONTROL -- THE FONTDIALOG CONTROL -- THE COLORDIALOG CONTROL -- THE PRINTDIALOG CONTROL -- THE FOLDERBROWSERDIALOG CONTROL -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 9: Creating Menus.

UNDERSTANDING MENU FEATURES -- CREATING MENUS -- CONTEXT MENUS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 10: Debugging and Error Handling -- MAJOR ERROR TYPES -- DEBUGGING -- ERROR HANDLING -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 11: Building Objects -- UNDERSTANDING OBJECTS -- BUILDING CLASSES -- REUSABILITY -- DESIGNING AN OBJECT -- CONSTRUCTORS -- INHERITANCE -- OBJECTS AND STRUCTURES -- THE FRAMEWORK CLASSES -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 12: Advanced Object-Oriented Techniques -- BUILDING A FAVORITES VIEWER -- AN ALTERNATIVE FAVORITE VIEWER -- USING SHARED PROPERTIES AND METHODS -- UNDERSTANDING OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING AND MEMORY MANAGEMENT -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 13: Building Class Libraries -- UNDERSTANDING CLASS LIBRARIES -- USING STRONG NAMES -- REGISTERING ASSEMBLIES -- DESIGNING CLASS LIBRARIES -- USING THIRD-PARTY CLASS LIBRARIES -- VIEWING CLASSES WITH THE OBJECT BROWSER -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 14: Creating Windows Forms User Controls -- WINDOWS FORMS CONTROLS -- CREATING AND TESTING A USER CONTROL -- EXPOSING PROPERTIES FROM USER CONTROLS -- DESIGN TIME OR RUNTIME -- CREATING A COMMAND LINK CONTROL -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 15: Accessing Databases -- WHAT IS A DATABASE? -- THE SQL SELECT STATEMENT -- QUERIES IN ACCESS -- DATA ACCESS COMPONENTS AND CONTROLS -- DATA BINDING -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 16: Database Programming with SQL Server and ADO.NET -- ADO.NET -- ADO.NET Data Namespaces -- THE ADO.NET CLASSES IN ACTION -- DATA BINDING -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 17: Dynamic Data Web Site -- CREATING A DYNAMIC DATA LINQ TO SQL WEB SITE -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 18: ASP.NET -- THIN-CLIENT ARCHITECTURE -- WEB FORMS VERSUS WINDOWS FORMS -- WEB APPLICATIONS: THE BASIC PIECES -- ACTIVE SERVER PAGES -- BUILDING WEB SITES -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 19: Visual Basic 2010 and XML -- UNDERSTANDING XML -- THE ADDRESS BOOK PROJECT -- INTEGRATING WITH THE ADDRESS BOOK APPLICATION -- SUMMARY.

Chapter 20: Deploying Your Application -- WHAT IS DEPLOYMENT? -- CREATING A VISUAL STUDIO 2010 SETUP APPLICATION -- USER INTERFACE EDITOR -- DEPLOYING DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS -- SUMMARY -- Appendix A: Exercise Solutions -- Appendix B: Where to Now? -- INDEX.