April 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
14h 4m
English
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How This Book Is Organized
Part I focuses on the details of the VB.NET language. Part II explains how to write .NET programs, and Part III describes how to use Visual Basic .NET with the .NET Common Language Runtime library.
Chapter 1, introduces you to the VB.NET language and the .NET platform.
Chapter 2, presents a simple application that prints the words “Hello World” to a console window, and gives a line-by-line analysis of the code.
Chapter 3, introduces the basic syntax and structure of the VB.NET language, including the intrinsic types, variables, statements, and expressions.
Chapter 4, explains the principles behind and goals of this programming methodology, including the three pillars of object-oriented programming: encapsulation, specialization, and polymorphism.
Chapter 5, introduces the key concepts of programmer-defined types (classes) and instances of those types (objects). Classes and objects are the building blocks of object-oriented programming.
Chapter 6, explores two of the key concepts behind object-oriented programming and demonstrates how you might implement them in your code.
Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 introduce Structures and Interfaces, respectively, both close cousins to classes. Structures are lightweight objects that are more restricted than classes, and that make fewer demands on the operating system and on memory. Interfaces are contracts; they describe how a class will work so that other programs can interact with your objects in well-defined ...
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