Visual Basic .NET All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Richard Mansfield was a member of the Visual Basic .NET technical beta from its start. He’s the author of 32 computer books, including four bestsellers.

• Introduction: Welcome to .NET 1Book I The Fundamentals of Visual Basic .NET Programming 11Chapter 1: Getting With the Program 13Chapter 2: Common Tasks 21Chapter 3: Managing Files and Directories 49Chapter 4: Old Concepts in New Clothes 57Book II Tapping the Power of .NET Editor 73Chapter 1: Organizing Your Projects 75Chapter 2: Viewing Your Work 85Chapter 3: Investigating the Toolbox 97Chapter 4: Windows, Windows Everywhere 113Chapter 5: Customization — Doing It Your Way 125Book III Advanced Visual Basic .NET Programming 133Chapter 1: Understanding Variable Types 135Chapter 2: Working with Arrays 157Chapter 3: Serious Serialization and Streams 171Chapter 4: Creating Runtime Controls 191Chapter 5: Overloaded Functions and Parameters 207Chapter 6: Smashing Bugs 217Chapter 7: No More Paranoia — Programmatic Encryption 233Book IV Programming for the Web 259Chapter 1: Introduction to ASP.NET 261Chapter 2: Everything’s Eventual 277Chapter 3: Using ASP.NET Controls 291Chapter 4: Making Database Connections on WebForms 303Chapter 5: Creating a Web Service 317Chapter 6: Bugs in the Web 335Book V Visual Basic .NET Database Programming 351Chapter 1: The Basics of Databases 353Chapter 2: User Interface Techniques 377Chapter 3: Managing DataSets 403Chapter 4: Migrating to ADO.NET 429Chapter 5: Deeper into ADO.NET 449Chapter 6: Querying Data 463Book VI Fun and Games with Graphics 489Chapter 1: You Be Picasso 491Chapter 2: The Creative Photographer 517Chapter 3: Mastering .NET Printing (It’s Complicated Until You Know How) 527Chapter 4: Constructing Wolfram Diagrams 541Book VII Visual Basic .NET Object-Oriented Programming 559Chapter 1: Introduction to OOP 561Chapter 2: Creating Classes 571Chapter 3: Inheritance 579Chapter 4: Your First OOP Project 589Chapter 5: Exploiting the .NET Framework 605Appendix: Dictionary of VB.NET 623Index 753