Visual Basic 2005 for Programmers: Deitel Developer Series, Second Edition

Table of contents

1. Copyright
4. Introduction to .NET, Visual Basic and Object Technology
   1. Introduction
   2. Microsoft’s Windows® Operating System
   3. Visual Basic
   4. The Internet and the World Wide Web
   5. Extensible Markup Language (XML)
   6. Microsoft’s .NET
   7. The .NET Framework and the Common Language Runtime
   8. Test-Driving a Visual Basic Application
   9. (Only Required Section of the Case Study) Software Engineering Case Study: Introduction to Object Technology and the UML
   10. Wrap-Up
   11. Web Resources
5. Introduction to the Visual Basic Express 2005 IDE
   1. Introduction
   2. Overview of the Visual Studio 2005 IDE
   3. Menu Bar and Toolbar
   4. Navigating the Visual Studio IDE
   5. Using Help
   6. Using Visual Programming to Create a Simple Program that Displays Text and an Image
   7. Wrap-Up
   8. Web Resources
6. Introduction to Visual Basic Programming
   1. Introduction
   2. Displaying a Line of Text
   3. Creating A Console Application in Visual Basic Express
   4. Displaying a Single Line of Text with Multiple Statements
   5. Adding Integers
   6. Arithmetic
   7. Decision Making: Equality and Relational Operators
   8. Using a Message Dialog to Display a Message
   9. (Optional) Software Engineering Case Study: Examining the ATM Requirements Document
   10. Wrap-Up
   11. Web Resources
7. Introduction to Classes and Objects
   1. Introduction
   2. Classes, Objects, Methods and Instance Variables
   3. Declaring a Class with a Method and Instantiating an Object of a Class
   4. Declaring a Method with a Parameter
   5. Instance Variables and Properties
   6. Value Types and Reference Types
   7. Initializing Objects with Constructors
   8. Validating Data with Set Accessors in Properties
   9. (Optional) Software Engineering Case Study: Identifying the Classes in the ATM Requirements Document
   10. Wrap-Up
8. Control Statements: Part 1
   1. Introduction
   2. Control Structures
   3. If...Then Selection Statement
   4. If...Then...Else Selection Statement
   5. While Repetition Statement
   6. Do While...Loop Repetition Statement
   7. Do Until...Loop Repetition Statement
   8. Compound Assignment Operators
   9. Counter-Controlled Repetition
   10. Sentinel-Controlled Repetition
   11. Nested Control Statements
   12. Nested Repetition Statements
   13. Visual Basic Programming in a Windows Application
   14. (Optional) Software Engineering Case Study: Identifying Class Attributes in the ATM System
   15. Wrap-Up
9. Control Statements: Part 2
   1. Introduction
   2. Essentials of Counter-Controlled Repetition
   3. For...Next Repetition Statement
   4. Examples Using the For...Next Statement
   5. GradeBook Case Study: Select...Case Multiple-Selection Statement
   6. Do...Loop While Repetition Statement
   7. Do...Loop Until Repetition Statement
   8. Using the Exit Statement in Repetition Statements
   9. Using the Continue Statement in Repetition Statements
   10. Logical Operators
   11. (Optional) Software Engineering Case Study: Identifying Objects’ States and Activities in the ATM System
   12. Software Engineering Case Study Self-Review Exercises
   13. Wrap-Up
10. Methods: A Deeper Look
    1. Introduction
    2. Modules, Classes and Methods
    3. Subroutines: Methods That Do Not Return a Value
    4. Functions: Methods That Return a Value
    5. Shared Methods and Class Math
    6. GradeBook Case Study: Declaring Methods with Multiple Parameters
    7. Notes on Declaring and Using Methods
    8. Method Call Stack and Activation Records
    9. Implicit Argument Conversions
    10. Option Strict and Data-Type Conversions
    11. Value Types and Reference Types
    12. Framework Class Library Namespaces
    13. Passing Arguments: Pass-by-Value vs. Pass-by-Reference
    14. Scope of Declarations
    15. Case Study: Random Number Generation
    16. Case Study: A Game of Chance
    17. Method Overloading
    18. Optional Parameters
    19. Recursion
    20. (Optional) Software Engineering Case Study: Identifying Class Operations in the ATM System
    21. Wrap-Up
11. Arrays
    1. Introduction
    2. Arrays
    3. Declaring and Allocating Arrays
    4. Examples Using Arrays
    5. Case Study: Card Shuffling and Dealing Simulation
    6. Passing an Array to a Method
    7. For Each...Next Repetition Statement
    8. GradeBook Case Study: Using an Array to Store Grades
    9. Rectangular Arrays
    10. GradeBook Case Study: Using a Rectangular Array
    11. Variable-Length Parameter Lists
    12. Jagged Arrays
    13. Changing the Size of an Array at Execution Time: Using the ReDim Statement
    14. Passing Arrays: ByVal vs. ByRef
    15. (Optional) Software Engineering Case Study: Collaboration Among Objects in the ATM System
    16. Wrap-Up
12. Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look
    1. Introduction
    2. Time Class Case Study
    3. Class Scope
    4. Default and Parameterless Constructors
    5. Time Class Case Study: Overloaded Constructors
    6. Partial Classes
    7. Composition
    8. Using the Me Reference to Access the Current Object
    9. Garbage Collection
    10. Shared Class Members
    11. Const and ReadOnly Members
    12. Object Browser
    13. Time Class Case Study: Creating Class Libraries
    14. (Optional) Software Engineering Case Study: Starting to Program the Classes of the ATM System
    15. Wrap-Up
13. Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance
    1. Introduction
    2. Base Classes and Derived Classes
    3. Protected Members
    4. Relationship between Base Classes and Derived Classes
    5. Constructors in Derived Classes
    6. Software Engineering with Inheritance
    7. Class Object
    8. Friend Members
    9. Wrap-Up
14. Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism
    1. Introduction
    2. Polymorphic Video Game
    3. Demonstrating Polymorphic Behavior
    4. Abstract Classes and Methods
    5. Case Study: Payroll System Class Hierarchy Using Polymorphism
    6. NotOverridable Methods and NotInheritable Classes
    7. Case Study: Creating and Using Interfaces
    8. (Optional) Software Engineering Case Study: Incorporating Inheritance and Polymorphism into the ATM System
    9. Wrap-Up
15. Exception Handling
    1. Introduction
    2. Exception Handling Overview
    3. Example: Divide by Zero Without Exception Handling
    4. Example: Handling DivideByZeroExceptions and FormatExceptions
    5. .NET Exception Hierarchy
    6. Finally Block
    7. Exception Properties
    8. User-Defined Exception Classes
    9. Wrap-Up
16. Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part I
    1. Introduction
    2. Windows Forms
    3. Event Handling
    4. Control Properties and Layout
    5. Labels, TextBoxes and Buttons
    6. GroupBoxes and Panels
    7. CheckBoxes and RadioButtons
    8. PictureBoxes
    9. ToolTips
    10. NumericUpDown Control
    11. Mouse-Event Handling
    12. Keyboard-Event Handling
    13. Wrap-Up
17. Graphical User Interface Concepts: Part 2
    1. Introduction
    2. Menus
    3. MonthCalendar Control
    4. DateTimePicker Control
    5. LinkLabel Control
    6. ListBox Control
    7. CheckedListBox Control
    8. ComboBox Control
    9. TreeView Control
    10. ListView Control
    11. TabControl Control
    12. Multiple Document Interface (MDI) Windows
    13. Visual Inheritance
    14. User-Defined Controls
    15. Wrap-Up
18. Multithreading
    1. Introduction
    2. Thread States: Life Cycle of a Thread
    3. Thread Priorities and Thread Scheduling
    4. Creating and Executing Threads
    5. Thread Synchronization and Class Monitor
    6. Producer/Consumer Relationship without Thread Synchronization
    7. Producer/Consumer Relationship with Thread Synchronization
    8. Producer/Consumer Relationship: Circular Buffer
    9. Multithreading with GUIs
    10. Wrap-Up
19. Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions
    1. Introduction
    2. Fundamentals of Characters and Strings
    3. String Constructors
    4. String Indexer, Length Property and CopyTo Method
    5. Comparing Strings
    6. Locating Characters and Substrings in Strings
    7. Extracting Substrings from Strings
    8. Concatenating Strings
    9. Miscellaneous String Methods
    10. Class StringBuilder
    11. Length and Capacity Properties, EnsureCapacity Method and Indexer of Class StringBuilder
    12. Append and AppendFormat Methods of Class StringBuilder
    13. Insert, Remove and Replace Methods of Class StringBuilder
    14. Char Methods
    15. Card Shuffling and Dealing Simulation
    16. Regular Expressions and Class RegEx
    17. Wrap-Up
20. Graphics and Multimedia
    1. Introduction
    2. Drawing Classes and the Coordinate System
    3. Graphics Contexts and Graphics Objects
    4. Color Control
    5. Font Control
    6. Drawing Lines, Rectangles and Ovals
    7. Drawing Arcs
    8. Drawing Polygons and Polylines
    9. Advanced Graphics Capabilities
    10. Introduction to Multimedia
    11. Loading, Displaying and Scaling Images
    12. Animating a Series of Images
    13. Windows Media Player
    14. Microsoft Agent
    15. Wrap-Up
21. Files and Streams
    1. Introduction
    2. Data Hierarchy
    3. Files and Streams
    4. Classes File and Directory
    5. Creating a Sequential-Access Text File
    6. Reading Data from a Sequential-Access Text File
    7. Case Study: A Credit-Inquiry Program
    8. Serialization
    9. Creating a Sequential-Access File Using Object Serialization
    10. Reading and Deserializing Data from a Sequential-Access Text File
    11. Wrap-Up
22. Extensible Markup Language (XML)
    1. Introduction
    2. XML Basics
    3. Structuring Data
    4. XML Namespaces
    5. Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
    6. W3C XML Schema Documents
    7. (Optional) Extensible Stylesheet Language and XSL Transformations
    8. (Optional) Document Object Model (DOM)
    9. (Optional) Schema Validation with Class XmlReader
    10. (Optional) XSLT with Class XslCompiledTransform
    11. Wrap-Up
    12. Web Resources
23. Database, SQL and ADO.NET
    1. Introduction
    2. Relational Databases
    3. Relational Database Overview: Books Database
    4. SQL
    5. ADO.NET Object Model
    6. Programming with ADO.NET: Extracting Information from a Database
    7. Querying the Books Database
    8. Programming with ADO.NET: Address Book Case Study
    9. Using a DataSet to Read and Write XML
    10. Wrap-Up
    11. Web Resources
24. ASP.NET 2.0, Web Forms and Web Controls
    1. Introduction
    2. Simple HTTP Transactions
    3. Multitier Application Architecture
    4. Creating and Running a Simple Web-Form Example
    5. Web Controls
    6. Session Tracking
    7. Case Study: Connecting to a Database in ASP.NET
    8. Case Study: Secure Books Database Application
    9. Wrap-Up
    10. Web Resources
25. Web Services
    1. Introduction
    2. .NET Web Services Basics
    3. Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
    4. Publishing and Consuming Web Services
    5. Session Tracking in Web Services
    6. Using Web Forms and Web Services
    7. User-Defined Types in Web Services
    8. Wrap-Up
    9. Web Resources
26. Networking: Streams-Based Sockets and Datagrams
    1. Introduction
    2. Connection-Oriented vs. Connectionless Communication
    3. Protocols for Transporting Data
    4. Establishing a Simple TCP Server Using Stream Sockets
    5. Establishing a Simple TCP Client Using Stream Sockets
    6. Client/Server Interaction with Stream-Socket Connections
    7. Connectionless Client/Server Interaction with Datagrams
    8. Client/Server Tic-Tac-Toe Using a Multithreaded Server
    9. WebBrowser Class
    10. .NET Remoting
    11. Wrap-Up
27. Data Structures
    1. Introduction
    2. Primitive-Type Structures; Boxing and Unboxing
    3. Self-Referential Classes
    4. Linked Lists
    5. Stacks
    6. Queues
    7. Trees
    8. Wrap-Up
28. Generics
    1. Introduction
    2. Motivation for Generic Methods
    3. Generic Method Implementation
    4. Type Constraints
    5. Overloading Generic Methods
    6. Generic Classes
    7. Notes on Generics and Inheritance
    8. Wrap-Up
29. Collections
    1. Introduction
    2. Collections Overview
    3. Class Array and Enumerators
    4. Non-Generic Collections
    5. Generic Collections
    6. Synchronized Collections
    7. Wrap-Up
30. Operator Precedence Chart
31. Number Systems
    1. Introduction
    2. Abbreviating Binary Numbers as Octal and Hexadecimal Numbers
    3. Converting Octal and Hexadecimal Numbers to Binary Numbers
    4. Converting from Binary, Octal or Hexadecimal to Decimal
    5. Converting from Decimal to Binary, Octal or Hexadecimal
    6. Negative Binary Numbers: Two’s Complement Notation
32. Using the Visual Studio 2005 Debugger
    1. Introduction
    2. Breakpoints and the Continue Command
    3. The Locals and Watch Windows
    4. Controlling Execution Using the Step Into, Step Over, Step Out and Continue Commands
    5. Other Features
    6. Wrap-Up
33. ASCII Character Set
34. Unicode®
    1. Introduction
    2. Unicode Transformation Formats
    3. Characters and Glyphs
    4. Advantages/Disadvantages of Unicode
    5. Unicode Consortium’s Web Site
    6. Using Unicode
    7. Character Ranges
35. Introduction to XHTML: Part 1
    1. Introduction
    2. Editing XHTML
    3. First XHTML Example
    4. W3C XHTML Validation Service
    5. Headers
    6. Linking
    7. Images
    8. Special Characters and More Line Breaks
    9. Unordered Lists
    10. Nested and Ordered Lists
    11. Web Resources
36. Introduction to XHTML: Part 2
    1. Introduction
    2. Basic XHTML Tables
    3. Intermediate XHTML Tables and Formatting
    4. Basic XHTML Forms
    5. More Complex XHTML Forms
    6. Internal Linking
    7. Creating and Using Image Maps
    8. meta Elements
    9. frameset Element
    10. Nested framesets
    11. Web Resources
37. XHTML Special Characters
38. XHTML Colors
39. ATM Case Study Code
    1. ATM Case Study Implementation
    2. Class ATM
    3. Class Screen
    4. Class Keypad
    5. Class CashDispenser
    6. Class DepositSlot
    7. Class Account
    8. Class BankDatabase
    9. Class Transaction
    10. Class BalanceInquiry
    11. Class Withdrawal
    12. Class Deposit
    13. Module ATMCaseStudy
    14. Wrap-Up
40. UML 2: Additional Diagram Types
    1. Introduction
    2. Additional Diagram Types
41. Primitive Types
    1. Additional Primitive Type Information
42. CD-ROM Warranty
43. Index