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Visual Basic .NET is part of the Visual Studio .NET family of products in addition to Visual C++ and the new programming language Visual C#. While the syntax and style of Visual Basic .NET is very similar to earlier versions of Visual Basic this version has many important improvements, which will ensure that Visual Basic remains as Microsoft's most popular Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for application development. Whether you want to develop applications for Windows or for the World Wide Web (WWW) Visual Basic .NET is an excellent tool for producing reliable, professional applications fast. Visual Basic has set the standard as one of the best development environments for Windows applications, but increasingly we want to create applications for the WWW which will run within a browser environment. This version of Visual Basic provides an excellent set of tools for doing this. The WWW is a part of the Internet and originally Web pages were written in simple HTML and were static, that is you could look at them and follow links to other pages but you could not do anything else. To develop a Web application which can respond to user requests, for example, reading a database, and updating the Web page, other tools apart from HTML are needed. Visual Basic .NET uses an extended version of ASP called ASP.NET for doing this.

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Why Use Visual Basic .Net?	p. 1
Introduction	p. 2
What do I need?	p. 3
Why upgrade?	p. 3
Is this book for you?	p. 4
How to use this book	p. 5
Don't type!	p. 6
The Visual Basic .Net IDE	p. 9
Introduction	p. 10
Running Visual Basic	p. 10
Project types	p. 11
The Visual Basic .NET IDE	p. 12
The Solution Explorer	p. 14
The Help system	p. 16
The Windows Forms Designer	p. 17
The Toolbox	p. 18
Adding custom controls	p. 19
The Properties window	p. 21
Windows Controls	p. 23
Introduction	p. 24
Adding controls to a window	p. 24
Selecting controls	p. 25
Moving and resizing controls	p. 26
Changing properties	p. 26
Common properties	p. 28
The Label control	p. 29
Properties of the Label control	p. 30
The TextBox control	p. 31
The PictureBox control	p. 32
The CheckBox, RadioButton and GroupBox controls	p. 34
The Button control	p. 36
Creating a good user interface	p. 37
Positioning and grouping	p. 37
Consistency	p. 38
Colours and font size	p. 38
Images	p. 39
Making choices	p. 40
Windows Applications	p. 41
Introduction	p. 42
Showing holiday pictures	p. 42
Creating a new project	p. 43
Adding the controls	p. 44
Completing the user-interface	p. 45
Handling events	p. 46
The Form Load event handler	p. 47
The Button event handlers	p. 50
A quick way of making event procedures	p. 51
The IntelliSense facility	p. 52
Variables and Operators	p. 55
Introduction	p. 56
Naming rules	p. 56
Naming controls	p. 57
Adding comments	p. 57
Variable types	p. 58
Naming conventions for variables	p. 59
Naming conventions	p. 59
Choosing meaningful names	p. 60
Choosing consistent names	p. 60
Declaring variables	p. 61
Option Explicit statement	p. 63
Option Strict statement	p. 64
Declaring constants	p. 65
The Boolean data type	p. 65
Data types representing integers	p. 65
Data types representing floating point numbers	p. 66
The Date data type	p. 67
The Object data type	p. 67
The String data type	p. 67
The Char data type	p. 68
The range of data types	p. 68
Converting between data types	p. 69
Arithmetic operators	p. 70
Assignment operators	p. 71
Arrays	p. 72
Declaring arrays	p. 72
Changing array dimensions	p. 73
Structures	p. 73
Controlling Program Flow	p. 75
Introduction	p. 76
The If.. Then statement	p. 76
The If.. Then.. Else statement	p. 78
Using the Select Case statement	p. 79
The comparison operators	p. 81
Looping	p. 81
The For..Next statement	p. 82
Handling errors	p. 84
The On Error Statement	p. 84
The For Each..Next statement	p. 86
The While statement	p. 86
The Do..Loop statement	p. 88
Functions and Procedures	p. 91
Introduction	p. 92
The Sub statement	p. 92
The attributeList options	p. 93
The argumentList options	p. 94
The Password application	p. 94
Creating a procedure	p. 98
Passing parameters	p. 100
Creating functions	p. 103
Call by reference and call by value	p. 104
Using a start-up procedure	p. 107
Classes and Objects	p. 109
Introduction	p. 110
What is object orientation?	p. 110
What are classes and objects?	p. 112
Creating and using classes and objects	p. 113
The clsBook class	p. 114
The attributes	p. 115
Referencing the attributes	p. 116
ReadOnly and WriteOnly properties	p. 117
The shtLoanType attribute	p. 118
The onLoan method	p. 119
The borrow method	p. 119
The displayDetails method	p. 120
Creating objects	p. 120
Constructors	p. 123
Method overloading	p. 123
Inheritance	p. 124
Further Windows Controls	p. 127
Introduction	p. 128
The Timer control	p. 128
The ListBox control	p. 129
The ComboBox control	p. 132
The ComboBox application	p. 133
Handling events	p. 134
The MonthCalendar control	p. 135
The DateTimePicker control	p. 137
The TrackBar	p. 138
The RichTextBox control	p. 140
Web Applications	p. 143
Introduction	p. 144
What is ASP.NET	p. 144
Windows and Web applications	p. 145
What do I need to develop Web applications?	p. 146
Creating a Web application	p. 146
Creating the application	p. 148
The supporting code	p. 151
Web Server Controls	p. 153
Introduction	p. 154
Web controls	p. 154
The Button Web controls	p. 154
The Calendar control	p. 155
The CheckBox and CheckBoxList controls	p. 156
The DropDownList control	p. 158
The HyperLink control	p. 158
The Image control	p. 159
The Label control	p. 159
The ListBox control	p. 159
The Panel control	p. 160
The RadioButton and RadioButtonList controls	p. 161
Working with Forms	p. 163
Introduction	p. 164
Adding new forms	p. 164
The startup form	p. 164
Creating Forms	p. 165
Hiding and showing forms	p. 166
Controlling form properties	p. 169
Control the Window position	p. 170
MDI forms	p. 171
Creating an MDI application	p. 172
Creating the menu system	p. 173
Menu event procedures	p. 174
Working with Dialogs	p. 177
Introduction	p. 178
The MessageBox class	p. 178
Which button was pressed?	p. 179
The InputBox function	p. 180
Missing optional parameters	p. 181
Standard Dialogs	p. 181
The ColorDialog control	p. 182
The FontDialog Control	p. 183
The OpenFileDialog control	p. 184
The SaveFileDialog Control	p. 187
The PageSetupDialog Control	p. 188
The PrintDialog Control	p. 189
Mouse and Keyboard Events	p. 191
Introduction	p. 192
Keyboard events	p. 192
Monitoring keyboard events	p. 193
The modifier keys	p. 194
Mouse events	p. 196
MouseDown, MouseUp and MouseMove	p. 196
The MouseEventArgs Class	p. 197
MouseEnter and MouseLeave	p. 200
Dragging and dropping	p. 200
Starting to drag	p. 201
Dropping	p. 202
Databases and SQL	p. 205
Introduction	p. 206
The Book database	p. 206
What is SQL?	p. 207
Reading records	p. 207
The ORDER BY clause	p. 208
The WHERE clause	p. 209
Modifying records	p. 209
Deleting records	p. 210
Adding records	p. 210
One to many	p. 210
The Data form Wizard	p. 213
Introduction	p. 214
What does the Wizard do?	p. 214
The Data Form Wizard	p. 214
Datareader and Dataset	p. 223
Introduction	p. 224
Reading the Book database	p. 224
Connecting to the database	p. 225
SQL statements	p. 226
Error checking	p. 228
The DataSet class	p. 230
Using the DataSet class	p. 230
Connecting to the database	p. 231
Reading from the database	p. 232
Using the DataSet class	p. 232
The completed application	p. 234
Index	p. 237
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