Visual Basic® 2012: Programmer's Reference -- About the Author -- About the Technical Editor -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Should you use visual basic 2012? -- Who Should Read this Book -- How this Book is Organized -- Part I: IDE -- Part II: Getting Started -- Part III: Object-Oriented Programming -- Part IV: Interacting with the Environment -- Part V: Appendices -- 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 -- Introducing 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 -- IDE Tools -- Menus -- File -- Edit -- View -- Project -- Build -- Debug -- Data -- Format -- Tools -- Test -- Window -- Help -- Toolbars -- Secondary Windows -- Toolbox -- Properties Window -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Windows forms Designer -- Introducing Windows Forms Designer -- Setting Designer Options -- Adding Controls -- Selecting Controls -- Copying Controls -- Moving and Sizing Controls -- Arranging Controls -- Setting Properties -- Setting Group Properties -- Using Smart Tags -- Adding Code to Controls -- Summary -- Chapter 4: WPF Designer -- Introducing WPF Designer -- Editor Weaknesses -- Recognizing Designer Windows -- Adding Controls -- Selecting Controls -- Moving and Sizing Controls -- Setting Properties -- Setting Group Properties -- Adding Code to Controls -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Visual Basic Code Editor -- Editing Code -- Margin Icons -- Outlining -- Tooltips -- IntelliSense -- Code Coloring and Highlighting -- Code Snippets -- Architectural Tools -- Rename -- Go To Definition -- Go To Type Definition -- Highlight References -- Find All References.

Generate From Usage -- The Code Editor at Run Time -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Debugging -- Debugging and Testing -- The Debug Menu -- The Debug ? Windows Submenu -- The Breakpoints Window -- The Command and Immediate Windows -- Summary -- Part II: Getting Started Chapter -- 7: Selecting Windows Forms Controls -- Controls -- Controls Overview -- Choosing Controls -- Containing and Arranging Controls -- Making Selections -- Entering Data -- Displaying Data -- Providing Feedback -- Initiating Action -- Displaying Graphics -- Displaying Dialog Boxes -- Third-Party Controls -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Using Windows forms Controls -- Using Controls and Components -- Controls and Components -- Creating Controls -- Properties -- Properties at Design Time -- Properties at Run Time -- Useful Control Properties -- Position and Size Properties -- Methods -- Events -- Creating Event Handlers at Design Time -- Validation Events -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Windows Forms -- Using Forms -- Transparency -- About, Splash, and Login Forms -- Mouse Cursors -- Icons -- Application Icons -- Notification Icons -- Properties Adopted by Child Controls -- Property Reset Methods -- Overriding WndProc -- MRU Lists -- Dialog Boxes -- Wizards -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Selecting WPF Controls -- WPF Controls and Code -- 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 11: Using WPF Controls -- WPF Controls -- WPF Concepts -- Separation of User Interface and Code -- WPF Control Hierarchies -- WPF in the IDE -- Editing XAML -- Editing Visual Basic Code -- XAML Features -- Objects -- Resources -- Styles -- Templates -- Transformations -- Animations -- Drawing Objects.

Procedural WPF -- Documents -- Flow Documents -- Fixed Documents -- XPS Documents -- Summary -- Chapter 12: WPF Windows -- Using WPF Windows -- Window Applications -- Page Applications -- Browser Applications -- Frame Applications -- Summary -- Chapter 13: Program and Module Structure -- Solutions and Projects -- Hidden Files -- Code File Structure -- Code Regions -- Conditional Compilation -- Namespaces -- Typographic Code Elements -- Comments -- XML Comments -- Line Continuation -- Implicit Line Continuation -- Line Joining -- Summary -- Chapter 14: Data Types, Variables, and Constants -- Variables -- Data Types -- Type Characters -- Data Type Conversion -- Narrowing Conversions -- Data Type Parsing Methods -- Widening Conversions -- The Convert Class -- ToString -- Variable Declarations -- Attribute_List -- Accessibility -- Shared -- Shadows -- ReadOnly -- Dim -- WithEvents -- Name -- Bounds_List -- New -- As Type and Inferred Types -- Initialization_Expression -- Initializing Collections -- Multiple Variable Declarations -- Option Explicit and Option Strict -- Scope -- Block Scope -- Procedure Scope -- Module Scope -- Namespace Scope -- Restricting Scope -- Parameter Declarations -- Property Procedures -- Enumerated Data Types -- Anonymous Types -- Nullable Types -- Constants -- Accessibility -- As Type -- Initialization_Expression -- Delegates -- Naming Conventions -- Summary -- Chapter 15: Operators -- Understanding Operators -- Arithmetic Operators -- Concatenation Operators -- Comparison Operators -- Logical Operators -- Bitwise Operators -- Operator Precedence -- Assignment Operators -- The StringBuilder Class -- Date and TimeSpan Operations -- Operator Overloading -- Summary -- Chapter 16: Subroutines and Functions -- Managing Code -- Subroutines -- Attribute_List -- Inheritance_Mode -- Accessibility -- Subroutine_Name -- Parameters.

Implements interface.subroutine -- Statements -- Functions -- Property Procedures -- Extension Methods -- Lambda Functions -- Relaxed Delegates -- Asynchronous Methods -- Calling EndInvoke Directly -- Handling a Callback -- Using Async and Await -- Summary -- Chapter 17: Program Control Statements -- Controlling Programs -- Decision Statements -- Single-Line If Then -- Multiline If Then -- Select Case -- Enumerated Values -- IIf -- If -- Choose -- Looping Statements -- For Next -- Non-Integer For Next Loops -- For Each -- Enumerators -- Iterators -- Do Loop Statements -- While End -- Summary -- Chapter 18: Error Handling -- The Struggle for Perfection -- Bugs versus Unplanned Conditions -- Catching Bugs -- Catching Unplanned Conditions -- Global Exception Handling -- Structured Error Handling -- Exception Objects -- Throwing Exceptions -- Re-throwing Exceptions -- Custom Exceptions -- Debugging -- Summary -- Chapter 19: Database Controls and Objects -- Data Sources -- Automatically Connecting to Data -- Connecting to the Data Source -- Adding Data Controls to the Form -- Automatically Created Objects -- Other Data Objects -- Data Overview -- Connection Objects -- Transaction Objects -- Data Adapters -- Command Objects -- DataSet -- DataTable -- DataRow -- DataColumn -- DataRelation -- Constraints -- DataView -- DataRowView -- Simple Data Binding -- CurrencyManager -- Complex Data Binding -- Summary -- Chapter 20: LINQ -- The Many Faces of LINQ -- Introduction to LINQ -- Basic LINQ Query Syntax -- From -- Where -- Order By -- Select -- Using LINQ Results -- Advanced LINQ Query Syntax -- Join -- Group By -- Aggregate Functions -- Set Operations -- Limiting Results -- LINQ Functions -- LINQ Extension Methods -- Method-Based Queries -- Method-Based Queries with Lambda Functions -- Extending LINQ -- LINQ to Objects -- LINQ to XML -- XML Literals.

LINQ into XML -- LINQ out of XML -- LINQ to ADO.NET -- LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities -- LINQ to DataSet -- PLINQ -- Summary -- Chapter 21: Metro-Style Applications -- Building Metro-Style Applications -- Starting a New Project -- Special Image Files -- Building MetroBones -- Control Layout -- XAML Code -- Zooming in on the Controls -- Visual Basic Code -- Testing -- Summary -- Part III: Object-Oriented Programming -- Chapter 22: OOP Concepts -- Introducing OOP -- Classes -- Encapsulation -- Inheritance -- Inheritance Hierarchies -- Refinement and Abstraction -- "Has-a" and "Is-a" Relationships -- Adding and Modifying Class Features -- Interface Inheritance -- Polymorphism -- Method Overloading -- Extension Methods -- Summary -- Chapter 23: Classes and Structures -- Packaging Data -- Classes -- Attribute_list -- Partial -- Accessibility -- Shadows -- Inheritance -- Implements interface -- Structures -- Structures Cannot Inherit -- Structures Are Value Types -- Memory Required -- Heap and Stack Performance -- Object Assignment -- Parameter Passing -- Boxing and Unboxing -- Class Instantiation Details -- Structure Instantiation Details -- Garbage Collection -- Finalize -- Dispose -- Constants, Properties, and Methods -- Events -- Declaring Events -- Raising Events -- Catching Events -- Shared Variables -- Shared Methods -- Summary -- Chapter 24: Namespaces -- Handling Name Conflicts -- The Imports Statement -- Automatic Imports -- Namespace Aliases -- Namespace Elements -- The Root Namespace -- Making Namespaces -- Classes, Structures, and Modules -- Resolving Namespaces -- Summary -- Chapter 25: Collection Classes -- Grouping Data -- What Is a Collection? -- Arrays -- Array Dimensions -- Lower Bounds -- Resizing -- Speed -- Other Array Class Features -- Collections -- ArrayList -- StringCollection -- NameValueCollection -- Dictionaries.

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