Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Mastering Series -- Who Should Read This Book? -- How about the Advanced Topics? -- The Structure of the Book -- Downloading This Book's Code -- Part 1: Visual Basic: The Language -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Basic 2010 -- Exploring the Integrated Development Environment -- Creating Your First VB Application -- Understanding the IDE Components -- Setting Environment Options -- Building a Console Application -- Using Code Snippets -- Using the My Component -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 2: Handling Data -- Variables -- Variables as Objects -- Constants -- Arrays -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 3: Visual Basic Programming Essentials -- Flow-Control Statements -- Writing and Using Procedures -- Arguments -- The Bottom Line -- Part 2: Developing Windows Applications -- Chapter 4: GUI Design and Event-Driven Programming -- On Designing Windows Applications -- Building a Loan Calculator -- Building a Calculator -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 5: Basic Windows Controls -- The TextBox Control -- The ListBox, CheckedListBox, and ComboBox Controls -- The ScrollBar and TrackBar Controls -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 6: Working with Forms -- The Appearance of Forms -- Loading and Showing Forms -- Building Dynamic Forms at Runtime -- Designing Menus -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 7: More Windows Controls -- The Common Dialog Controls -- The RichTextBox Control -- The TreeView and ListView Controls -- The Bottom Line -- Part 3: Working with Custom Classes and Controls -- Chapter 8: Working with Objects -- Classes and Objects -- What Is a Class? -- Building the Minimal Class -- A ''Real'' Class -- Operator Overloading -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 9: Building Custom Windows Controls -- On Designing Windows Controls -- Enhancing Existing Controls.

Building Compound Controls -- Building User-Drawn Controls -- Designing Irregularly Shaped Controls -- Customizing List Controls -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 10: Applied Object-Oriented Programming -- Issues in Object-Oriented Programming -- Inheritance -- Extension Methods -- Polymorphism -- Who Can Inherit What? -- The Bottom Line -- Part 4: Working with the .NET Framework -- Chapter 11: The Framework at Large -- What Is the Framework? -- Using Snippets -- Using the My Component -- The IO Namespace -- Drawing and Painting -- The Image Class -- Printing -- Handling Strings and Characters -- Handling Dates and Time -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 12: Storing Data in Collections -- Advanced Array Topics -- Collection Types -- The Dictionary Collection -- The HashTable Collection -- The SortedList Collection -- Other Collections -- The IEnumerator and IComparer Interfaces -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 13: XML in Modern Programming -- A Very Quick Introduction to XML -- Manipulating XML with VB -- Traversing XML Documents -- VB 2010 at Work: Manipulating XML Data -- XML Serialization -- Other Types of Serialization -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 14: An Introduction to LINQ -- What Is LINQ? -- LINQ to Objects -- LINQ to XML -- LINQ to SQL -- The Bottom Line -- Part 5: Developing Data-Driven Applications -- Chapter 15: Programming with ADO.NET -- What Is a Database? -- SQL: An Overview -- Action Queries -- Stream-versus Set-Based Data Access -- The Basic Data-Access Classes -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 16: Developing Data-Driven Applications -- Using Business Objects -- Storing Data in DataSets -- Performing Update Operations -- VB 2010 at Work: The SimpleDataSet Project -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 17: Using the Entity Data Model -- The Entity Framework: Raising the Data Abstraction Bar -- Putting the EDM to Work.

Reverse-Engineering an Entity Data Model -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 18: Building Data-Bound Applications -- Working with Typed DataSets -- Data Binding -- Designing Data-Driven Interfaces the Easy Way -- The Bottom Line -- Part 6: Developing for the Web -- Chapter 19: Accessing the Web -- The WebBrowser Control -- Accessing the Web with the WebClient and HttpWebRequest/Response Classes -- Putting It All Together: The Address Visualization Form -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 20: Building Web Applications -- Developing for the Web -- Understanding HTML and XHTML -- Working with HTML -- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) -- JavaScript -- Microformats -- Server-Side Technologies -- Creating a Web Application -- Controls -- Maintaining State -- Master Pages -- ASP.NET Objects -- Postback -- VB 2010 at Work: Online Ordering Application -- The Bottom Line -- Chapter 21: Building and Using Web Services -- Using ASP.NET and WCF Web Services -- Understanding Technologies Associated with Web Services -- Creating a Simple ASP.NET Web Service -- Developing a Stand-Alone Web Service -- Simple AJAX Implementation -- Building and Using WCF Services -- ADO.NET Data Services -- The Bottom Line -- Appendix: The Bottom Line -- Chapter 1: Getting Started with Visual Basic 2010 -- Chapter 2: Handling Data -- Chapter 3: Visual Basic Programming Essentials -- Chapter 4: GUI Design and Event-Driven Programming -- Chapter 5: Basic Windows Controls -- Chapter 6: Working with Forms -- Chapter 7: More Windows Controls -- Chapter 8: Working with Projects -- Chapter 9: Building Custom Windows Controls -- Chapter 10: Applied Object-Oriented Programming -- Chapter 11: The Framework at Large -- Chapter 12: Storing Data in Collections -- Chapter 13: XML in Modern Programming -- Chapter 14: An Introduction to LINQ -- Chapter 15: Programming with ADO. NET.

Chapter 16: Developing Data-Driven Applications -- Chapter 17: Using the Entity Data Model -- Chapter 18: Building Data-Bound Applications -- Chapter 19: Accessing the Web -- Chapter 20: Building Web Applications -- Chapter 21: Building and Using Web Services -- Index -- EULA.