Visual Basic 2010 Programmer's Reference -- About the Author -- Contents -- Introduction -- SHOULD YOU USE VISUAL BASIC 2010? -- WHO SHOULD READ THIS BOOK -- HOW THIS BOOK IS ORGANIZED -- BONUS CHAPTERS -- HOW TO USE THIS BOOK -- NECESSARY EQUIPMENT -- CONVENTIONS -- SOURCE CODE -- ERRATA -- P2P.WROX.COM -- IMPORTANT URLS -- Part I: IDE -- Chapter 1: Introduction to the IDE -- DIFFERENT IDE APPEARANCES -- IDE CONFIGURATIONS -- PROJECTS AND SOLUTIONS -- STARTING THE IDE -- CREATING A PROJECT -- SAVING A PROJECT -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 2: Menus, Toolbars, and Windows -- MENUS -- TOOLBARS -- SECONDARY WINDOWS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 3: Customization -- ADDING COMMANDS -- MAKING KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 4: Windows Forms Designer -- SETTING DESIGNER OPTIONS -- ADDING CONTROLS -- SELECTING CONTROLS -- COPYING CONTROLS -- MOVING AND SIZING CONTROLS -- ARRANGING CONTROLS -- SETTING PROPERTIES -- ADDING CODE TO CONTROLS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 5: WPF Designer -- EDITOR WEAKNESSES -- RECOGNIZING DESIGNER WINDOWS -- ADDING CONTROLS -- SELECTING CONTROLS -- COPYING CONTROLS -- MOVING AND SIZING CONTROLS -- SETTING PROPERTIES -- SETTING GROUP PROPERTIES -- ADDING CODE TO CONTROLS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 6: Visual Basic Code Editor -- MARGIN ICONS -- OUTLINING -- TOOLTIPS -- INTELLISENSE -- CODE COLORING AND HIGHLIGHTING -- CODE SNIPPETS -- ARCHITECTURAL TOOLS -- THE CODE EDITOR AT RUNTIME -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 7: Debugging -- THE DEBUG MENU -- THE DEBUG - WINDOWS -- THE BREAKPOINTS WINDOW -- THE COMMAND AND IMMEDIATE WINDOWS -- SUMMARY -- Part II: Getting Started -- Chapter 8: Selecting Windows Forms Controls -- CONTROLS OVERVIEW -- CHOOSING CONTROLS -- THIRD-PARTY CONTROLS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 9: Using Windows Forms Controls -- CONTROLS AND COMPONENTS -- CREATING CONTROLS -- PROPERTIES -- METHODS -- EVENTS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 10: Windows Forms.

TRANSPARENCY -- ABOUT, SPLASH, AND LOGIN FORMS -- MOUSE CURSORS -- ICONS -- PROPERTIES ADOPTED BY CHILD CONTROLS -- PROPERTY RESET METHODS -- OVERRIDING WNDPROC -- SDI AND MDI -- MRU LISTS -- DIALOG BOXES -- WIZARDS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 11: Selecting WPF Controls -- CONTROLS OVERVIEW -- CONTAINING AND ARRANGING CONTROLS -- MAKING SELECTIONS -- ENTERING DATA -- DISPLAYING DATA -- PROVIDING FEEDBACK -- INITIATING ACTION -- PRESENTING GRAPHICS AND MEDIA -- PROVIDING NAVIGATION -- MANAGING DOCUMENTS -- DIGITAL INK -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 12: Using WPF Controls -- WPF CONCEPTS -- XAML FEATURES -- PROCEDURAL WPF -- DOCUMENTS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 13: WPF Windows -- WINDOW APPLICATIONS -- PAGE APPLICATIONS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 14: Program and Module Structure -- HIDDEN FILES -- CODE FILE STRUCTURE -- TYPOGRAPHIC CODE ELEMENTS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 15: Data Types, Variables, and Constants -- DATA TYPES -- TYPE CHARACTERS -- DATA TYPE CONVERSION -- VARIABLE DECLARATIONS -- INITIALIZING COLLECTIONS -- OPTION EXPLICIT AND OPTION STRICT -- SCOPE -- PARAMETER DECLARATIONS -- PROPERTY PROCEDURES -- ENUMERATED DATA TYPES -- ANONYMOUS TYPES -- NULLABLE TYPES -- CONSTANTS -- DELEGATES -- NAMING CONVENTIONS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 16: Operators -- ARITHMETIC OPERATORS -- CONCATENATION OPERATORS -- COMPARISON OPERATORS -- LOGICAL OPERATORS -- BITWISE OPERATORS -- OPERATOR PRECEDENCE -- ASSIGNMENT OPERATORS -- THE STRINGBUILDER CLASS -- DATE AND TIMESPAN OPERATIONS -- OPERATOR OVERLOADING -- OPERATORS WITH NULLABLE TYPES -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 17: Subroutines and Functions -- SUBROUTINES -- FUNCTIONS -- PROPERTY PROCEDURES -- EXTENSION METHODS -- LAMBDA FUNCTIONS -- RELAXED DELEGATES -- PARTIAL METHODS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 18: Program Control Statements -- DECISION STATEMENTS -- LOOPING STATEMENTS -- GOTO -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 19: Error Handling.

BUGS VERSUS UNPLANNED CONDITIONS -- STRUCTURED ERROR HANDLING -- VISUAL BASIC CLASSIC ERROR HANDLING -- STRUCTURED VERSUS CLASSIC ERROR HANDLING -- THE ERR OBJECT -- DEBUGGING -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 20: Database Controls and Objects -- AUTOMATICALLY CONNECTING TO DATA -- AUTOMATICALLY CREATED OBJECTS -- OTHER DATA OBJECTS -- DATA OVERVIEW -- CONNECTION OBJECTS -- TRANSACTION OBJECTS -- DATA ADAPTERS -- COMMAND OBJECTS -- DATAVIEW -- DATAROWVIEW -- SIMPLE DATA BINDING -- CURRENCYMANAGER -- COMPLEX DATA BINDING -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 21: LINQ -- INTRODUCTION TO LINQ -- BASIC LINQ QUERY SYNTAX -- ADVANCED LINQ QUERY SYNTAX -- LINQ FUNCTIONS -- LINQ EXTENSION METHODS -- LINQ TO OBJECTS -- LINQ TO XML -- LINQ TO ADO.NET -- PLINQ -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 22: Custom Controls -- CUSTOM CONTROLS IN GENERAL -- OTHER CUSTOM CONTROL TASKS -- DERIVED CONTROLS -- COMPOSITE CONTROLS -- CONTROLS BUILT FROM SCRATCH -- COMPONENTS -- INVISIBLE CONTROLS -- PICKING A CONTROL CLASS -- CONTROLS AND COMPONENTS IN EXECUTABLE PROJECTS -- CUSTOM COMPONENT SECURITY -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 23: Drag and Drop, and the Clipboard -- DRAG-AND-DROP EVENTS -- USING THE CLIPBOARD -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 24: UAC Security -- UAC OVERVIEW -- DESIGNING FOR UAC -- ELEVATING PROGRAMS -- SUMMARY -- Part III: Object-Oriented Programming -- Chapter 25: OOP Concepts -- CLASSES -- ENCAPSULATION -- INHERITANCE -- POLYMORPHISM -- METHOD OVERLOADING -- EXTENSION METHODS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 26: Classes and Structures -- CLASSES -- STRUCTURES -- CLASS INSTANTIATION DETAILS -- STRUCTURE INSTANTIATION DETAILS -- GARBAGE COLLECTION -- CONSTANTS, PROPERTIES, AND METHODS -- EVENTS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 27: Namespaces -- THE IMPORTS STATEMENT -- THE ROOT NAMESPACE -- MAKING NAMESPACES -- CLASSES, STRUCTURES, AND MODULES -- RESOLVING NAMESPACES -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 28: Collection Classes -- WHAT IS A COLLECTION?.

ARRAYS -- COLLECTIONS -- DICTIONARIES -- COLLECTIONSUTIL -- STACKS AND QUEUES -- GENERICS -- COLLECTION INITIALIZERS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 29: Generics -- ADVANTAGES OF GENERICS -- DEFINING GENERICS -- USING GENERICS -- PREDEFINED GENERIC CLASSES -- GENERIC METHODS -- GENERICS AND EXTENSION METHODS -- SUMMARY -- Part IV: Graphics -- Chapter 30: Drawing Basics -- DRAWING OVERVIEW -- DRAWING NAMESPACES -- GRAPHICS -- DRAWING EVENTS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 31: Brushes, Pens, and Paths -- PEN -- BRUSH -- GRAPHICSPATH OBJECTS -- GARBAGE-COLLECTION ISSUES -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 32: Text -- DRAWING TEXT -- TEXT FORMATTING -- MEASURESTRING -- FONT METRICS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 33: Image Processing -- IMAGE -- BITMAP -- METAFILE OBJECTS -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 34: Printing -- HOW NOT TO PRINT -- BASIC PRINTING -- PRINTING TEXT -- CENTERING PRINTOUTS -- FITTING PICTURES TO THE PAGE -- SIMPLIFYING DRAWING AND PRINTING -- SUMMARY -- Part V: Interacting with the Environment -- Chapter 35: Configuration and Resources -- MY -- ENVIRONMENT -- REGISTRY -- CONFIGURATION FILES -- RESOURCE FILES -- APPLICATION -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 36: Streams -- STREAM -- FILESTREAM -- MEMORYSTREAM -- BUFFEREDSTREAM -- BINARYREADER AND BINARYWRITER -- TEXTREADER AND TEXTWRITER -- STRINGREADER AND STRINGWRITER -- STREAMREADER AND STREAMWRITER -- OPENTEXT, CREATETEXT, AND APPENDTEXT -- CUSTOM STREAM CLASSES -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 37: File-System Objects -- PERMISSIONS -- VISUAL BASIC METHODS -- .NET FRAMEWORK CLASSES -- MY.COMPUTER.FILESYSTEM -- MY.COMPUTER.FILESYSTEM.SPECIALDIRECTORIES -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 38: Windows Communication Foundation -- WCF CONCEPTS -- WCF EXAMPLE -- BUILDING THE INITIAL SERVICE -- BUILDING QUOTESERVICE -- TESTING QUOTESERVICE -- BUILDING QUOTECLIENT -- SUMMARY -- Chapter 39: Useful Namespaces -- ROOT NAMESPACES -- ADVANCED EXAMPLES -- XML -- TPL -- SUMMARY.

Part VI: Appendices -- Appendix A: Useful Control Properties, Methods, and Events -- PROPERTIES -- METHODS -- EVENTS -- EVENT SEQUENCES -- Appendix B: Variable Declarations and Data Types -- VARIABLE DECLARATIONS -- INITIALIZATION EXPRESSIONS -- WITH -- FROM -- USING -- ENUMERATED TYPE DECLARATIONS -- XML VARIABLES -- OPTION EXPLICIT AND OPTION STRICT -- OPTION INFER -- DATA TYPES -- DATA TYPE CHARACTERS -- LITERAL TYPE CHARACTERS -- DATA TYPE CONVERSION FUNCTIONS -- CTYPE AND DIRECTCAST -- Appendix C: Operators -- ARITHMETIC OPERATORS -- CONCATENATION OPERATORS -- COMPARISON OPERATORS -- LOGICAL OPERATORS -- BITWISE OPERATORS -- OPERATOR PRECEDENCE -- ASSIGNMENT OPERATORS -- CHOOSE, IF, AND IIF -- DATE AND TIMESPAN OPERATORS -- OPERATOR OVERLOADING -- Appendix D: Subroutine and Function Declarations -- SUBROUTINES -- FUNCTIONS -- PROPERTY PROCEDURES -- LAMBDA FUNCTIONS AND EXPRESSIONS -- EXTENSION METHODS -- PARTIAL METHODS -- Appendix E: Control Statements -- DECISION STATEMENTS -- LOOPING STATEMENTS -- GOTO -- Appendix F: Error Handling -- STRUCTURED ERROR HANDLING -- THROWING EXCEPTIONS -- CLASSIC ERROR HANDLING -- Appendix G: Windows Forms Controls and Components -- COMPONENTS' PURPOSES -- POINTER -- BACKGROUNDWORKER -- BINDINGNAVIGATOR -- BINDINGSOURCE -- BUTTON -- CHECKBOX -- CHECKEDLISTBOX -- COLORDIALOG -- COMBOBOX -- CONTEXTMENUSTRIP -- DATAGRIDVIEW -- DATASET -- DATETIMEPICKER -- DIRECTORYENTRY -- DIRECTORYSEARCHER -- DOMAINUPDOWN -- ERRORPROVIDER -- EVENTLOG -- FILESYSTEMWATCHER -- FLOWLAYOUTPANEL -- FOLDERBROWSERDIALOG -- FONTDIALOG -- GROUPBOX -- HELPPROVIDER -- HSCROLLBAR -- IMAGELIST -- LABEL -- LINKLABEL -- LISTBOX -- LISTVIEW -- MASKEDTEXTBOX -- MENUSTRIP -- MESSAGEQUEUE -- MONTHCALENDAR -- NOTIFYICON -- NUMERICUPDOWN -- OPENFILEDIALOG -- PAGESETUPDIALOG -- PANEL -- PERFORMANCECOUNTER -- PICTUREBOX -- PRINTDIALOG -- PRINTDOCUMENT.

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