Visual Basic .NET Primer Plus

Visual Basic .NET Primer Plus teaches the Visual Basic .NET programming language and relevant parts of the .NET platform from the ground up, walking you through the basics of object-oriented programming, important programming techniques, and problem solving. As well, this book provides thorough coverage of Visual Basic's essential elements -- such as classes, objects, data types, loops, branching statements, arrays, and namespaces. With a dual emphasis on Visual Basic .NET and fundamental programming techniques, Visual Basic .NET Primer Plus will soon make you a proficient Visual Basic programmer building Windows applications on the .NET platform. Book jacket.

Jack Purdum has authored 12 programming texts, numerous magazine articles and technical papers, and has more than 25 years of teaching experience. He served as the director of development for a software company that produced programming tools, compilers, and statistical software for PCs and has almost 30 years of consulting experience.

1. Installing Visual Basic.NET.
2. The Basics of Object-Oriented Programming.
3. Thinking about Programs.
4. Data Types and Numeric Variables.
5. String Variables.
6. Arrays.
7. Subroutines and Functions.
8. Scope and Lifetime of Variables.
9. Assignment and Arithmetic Operators.
10. More Operators—Using Relational and Logical Operators to Make Decisions.
11. Making Decisions.
12. The For Loop.
13. More Loops.
14. Working with Arrays and Loops.
15. Creating Your Own Classes; Encapsulation.
16. Inheritance and Class Design.
17. Polymorphism and Class Design.
18. OOP and Program Design with UML.
19. Error Processing and Debugging.
20. VB .NET Controls.
21. VB .NET Graphics.
22. Disk Data Files.
23. The File System Object (FSO).
24. Database Fundamentals.
25. Database Programming with VB .NET.
26. Database Programming and ADO.NET.
27. Creating your own Controls.
28. Using VB .NET on the Web.
29. Introduction to XML.

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Visual Basic .NET Primer Plus

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