Sams teach yourself Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003 in 21 days

Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET 2003 in 21 Days......Page 2
Copyright © 2003 by Sams Publishing......Page 3
Contents at a Glance......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
About the Author......Page 23
We Want to Hear from You!......Page 25
What’s in This Book......Page 26
The Conventions Used in This Book......Page 28
What You’ll Need......Page 29
Visual Basic .NET Resources Online......Page 30
Visual Basic .NET Essentials......Page 32
DAY 1 Getting Started with Visual Basic .NET!......Page 34
The History of Visual Basic......Page 35
Putting Visual Basic to Work......Page 37
Visual Basic .NET from a Programmer’s Perspective......Page 50
The Visual Basic .NET Integrated Development Environment......Page 58
Online Resources......Page 78
Summary......Page 80
Q&A......Page 81
Workshop......Page 82
DAY 2 Mastering the Visual Basic Language: Data, Operators, Conditionals, and Loops......Page 84
Visual Basic .NET Keywords......Page 85
Visual Basic .NET Statements......Page 87
Declaring Variables......Page 90
What Data Types Are Supported?......Page 92
Working with Strings......Page 94
Performing Data Conversions......Page 96
Declaring Constants......Page 100
Creating Enumerations......Page 101
Declaring Arrays and Dynamic Arrays......Page 102
Using Visual Basic Operators......Page 106
Making Decisions with If Statements......Page 110
Making Decisions with Select......Page 113
Making Decisions with Switch and Choose......Page 115
Using the For Loop......Page 117
Using the For Each Loop......Page 118
Using the While Loop......Page 119
Using the Do Loop......Page 121
Using the With Statement......Page 122
Ending a Program in Code......Page 123
Summary......Page 124
Workshop......Page 125
DAY 3 Mastering the Visual Basic Language: Procedures, Error Handling, Classes, and Objects......Page 128
Sub Procedures......Page 129
Creating Functions......Page 138
Using Optional Arguments......Page 141
Passing a Variable Number of Arguments......Page 142
Preserving Data Between Procedure Calls......Page 143
Understanding Scope......Page 145
Unstructured Exception Handling......Page 150
Structured Exception Handling......Page 157
Introducing Classes and Objects......Page 166
Q&A......Page 175
Workshop......Page 176
Visual Basic .NET Essentials......Page 178
Creating Windows Applications in Visual Basic .NET......Page 182
DAY 4 Creating Windows Forms......Page 184
Windows Forms in Overview......Page 185
Creating a Windows Application......Page 186
Windows Forms in Code......Page 191
Handling Windows Forms in Code......Page 198
Using the Built-in Message and Input Dialogs......Page 208
Creating Applications with Multiple Forms......Page 215
Creating MDI Applications......Page 219
Creating Dialogs......Page 222
Creating Owned Forms......Page 225
Using Nonrectangular Forms......Page 226
Creating Smart Device Applications......Page 227
Handling Mouse Events......Page 229
Handling Keyboard Events......Page 232
Summary......Page 237
Workshop......Page 238
DAY 5 Windows Forms: Working with Text Boxes, Buttons, Labels, Check Boxes, and Radio Buttons......Page 240
Overview of the Control Class......Page 241
Using Text Boxes......Page 245
Using Rich Text Boxes......Page 251
Using Labels......Page 258
Using Link Labels......Page 261
Using Buttons......Page 265
Using Check Boxes......Page 269
Using Radio Buttons......Page 272
Using Panels......Page 276
Using Group Boxes......Page 280
Summary......Page 281
Workshop......Page 282
DAY 6 Windows Forms: Working with List Boxes, Combo Boxes, Picture Boxes, Scrollbars, Splitters, Tool Tips, and Timers......Page 284
Using List Boxes......Page 285
Using Checked List Boxes......Page 294
Using Combo Boxes......Page 299
Using Picture Boxes......Page 304
Using Scrollbars......Page 308
Using Track Bars......Page 313
Using Splitters......Page 316
Using Notify Icons......Page 318
Using Tool Tips......Page 321
Using Timers......Page 323
Summary......Page 327
Workshop......Page 328
DAY 7 Windows Forms: Working with Menus, Built-in Dialogs, and Printing......Page 330
Using Menus......Page 331
Using Context Menus......Page 348
Using the Built-in Dialogs......Page 350
Using Open File Dialogs......Page 351
Using Save File Dialogs......Page 354
Using Font Dialogs......Page 357
Using Color Dialogs......Page 359
Using Folder Browser Dialogs......Page 362
Printing with the PrintDocument and PrintSettings Objects......Page 364
Using Print Dialogs......Page 367
Using Print Preview Dialogs......Page 370
Using Page Setup Dialogs......Page 371
Summary......Page 376
Workshop......Page 377
DAY 8 Windows Forms: Working with Image Lists, Tree Views, List Views, Toolbars, Status Bars, and Progress Bars......Page 380
Using Image Lists......Page 381
Using Tree Views......Page 385
Using List Views......Page 393
Using Toolbars......Page 403
Using Progress Bars......Page 409
Using Status Bars......Page 411
Using Tab Controls......Page 415
Summary......Page 419
Workshop......Page 420
Creating Windows Applications in Visual Basic .NET......Page 422
In-Depth Programming with Visual Basic .NET......Page 426
DAY 9 Object-Oriented Programming......Page 428
Constructors and Destructors......Page 431
Overloading Methods......Page 433
Creating Class (Shared) Members......Page 434
Supporting Events with Objects......Page 438
OOP with Structures and Modules......Page 441
Using Inheritance......Page 442
Using Access Modifiers......Page 445
Using Inheritance Modifiers......Page 449
Overloading, Overriding, and Shadowing with Inheritance......Page 450
Using MyBase and MyClass with Inheritance......Page 455
Inheriting Constructors......Page 458
Creating Interfaces......Page 459
Working with Polymorphism......Page 462
Understanding Early and Late Binding......Page 465
Summary......Page 467
Workshop......Page 468
DAY 10 Graphics and File Handling......Page 470
Graphics Handling......Page 471
Using the Graphics Class......Page 472
Using the Pen Class......Page 474
Drawing With Graphics Objects......Page 477
Setting Drawing Colors......Page 485
Filling In Figures......Page 486
Handling Images......Page 488
Drawing Text......Page 492
Using the FileStream Class......Page 494
Writing Text with the StreamWriter Class......Page 498
Reading Text with the StreamReader Class......Page 500
Reading Binary Data with the BinaryReader Class......Page 504
Writing Binary Data with the BinaryWriter Class......Page 507
Using the File and Directory Classes......Page 509
Summary......Page 513
Workshop......Page 514
In-Depth Programming with Visual Basic .NET......Page 516
Creating Web Applications in Visual Basic .NET......Page 520
DAY 11 Creating Web Forms with ASP.NET......Page 522
Creating Web Applications......Page 523
Know Your HTML......Page 528
Creating a Web Application......Page 532
Working with Web Forms......Page 534
Handling Events in Code......Page 538
Running a Web Application......Page 542
Customizing Web Page Appearance in HTML......Page 543
Preserving a Web Application’s Data Between Server Accesses......Page 547
Creating a Multiform Web Application......Page 549
Mobile Web Applications......Page 552
Handling Browser Programming in JavaScript......Page 553
Embedding Visual Basic Code in Web Pages......Page 556
Summary......Page 559
Workshop......Page 560
DAY 12 Web Forms: Working with Buttons, Text Boxes, Labels, Literals, and Placeholders......Page 562
Working with Web Server Controls......Page 566
Using Buttons......Page 577
Using Text Boxes......Page 581
Using Labels......Page 586
Using Literals......Page 589
Using Placeholders......Page 591
Using XML Controls......Page 594
Summary......Page 599
Workshop......Page 600
DAY 13 Web Forms: Working with Check Boxes, Radio Buttons, Tables, and Panels......Page 602
Using Check Boxes......Page 603
Using Check Box Lists......Page 607
Using Radio Buttons......Page 614
Using Radio Button Lists......Page 618
Using Tables......Page 621
Using Panels......Page 629
Summary......Page 633
Q&A......Page 634
Workshop......Page 635
DAY 14 Web Forms: Working with Images, Image Buttons, List Boxes, Drop-Down Lists, Hyperlinks, and Link Buttons......Page 636
Using Image Controls......Page 637
Using Image Buttons......Page 640
Using List Boxes......Page 643
Using Drop-Down Lists......Page 650
Using Hyperlinks......Page 655
Using Link Buttons......Page 659
Summary......Page 662
Q&A......Page 663
Workshop......Page 664
DAY 15 Web Forms: Working with Validation Controls, Calendars, and Ad Rotators......Page 666
Using Validation Controls......Page 667
Using Required Field Validators......Page 670
Using Comparison Validators......Page 672
Using Range Validators......Page 675
Using Regular Expression Validators......Page 676
Using Custom Validators......Page 680
Using Validation Summaries......Page 682
Using Calendars......Page 684
Using Ad Rotators......Page 689
Summary......Page 693
Q&A......Page 694
Workshop......Page 695
Creating Web Applications in Visual Basic .NET......Page 696
Working with Databases in Visual Basic .NET......Page 700
DAY 16 Handling Databases with ADO.NET......Page 702
What’s a Database?......Page 703
Connections, Data Adapters, and Datasets......Page 706
Connecting to Databases with the Server Explorer......Page 709
Working with Data Adapters......Page 717
Understanding ADO.NET......Page 724
An SQL Primer......Page 727
Handling Relational Databases......Page 732
Using Multiple Tables in One Dataset......Page 735
Working with Data Views......Page 739
Working with MS Jet Databases......Page 741
Summary......Page 745
Q&A......Page 746
Workshop......Page 747
DAY 17 Binding Visual Basic Controls to Databases......Page 750
Using Data Binding......Page 751
Creating Simple Data Binding......Page 752
Creating Complex Binding......Page 759
Navigating in Data Sources......Page 766
Creating Data Forms with the Data Form Wizard......Page 771
Data Validation in Data-Entry Forms......Page 777
Working with SQL Parameters......Page 780
Using Data Relation Objects......Page 783
Summary......Page 787
Q&A......Page 788
Workshop......Page 789
DAY 18 Handling Databases in Code......Page 792
Using Connection Objects......Page 793
Using Command Objects......Page 798
Using Data Adapters......Page 801
Using the DataSet Class......Page 806
Creating Datasets in Code......Page 808
Filling a DataSet with Your Own Data (No Data Source Needed)......Page 810
Creating a Data Relation in Code......Page 817
Reading the Data in a Table’s Cells in Code......Page 819
Using Data Readers......Page 822
Summary......Page 828
Q&A......Page 830
Workshop......Page 831
DAY 19 Using Databases in Web Applications......Page 832
Using Simple Data Binding......Page 836
Navigating Through Your Data......Page 838
Using Complex Data Binding......Page 842
Creating Master-Detail Data Forms......Page 860
Using Datasets Locally with Internet Explorer......Page 862
Summary......Page 864
Q&A......Page 865
Workshop......Page 866
Working with Databases in Visual Basic .NET......Page 868
Advanced Topics......Page 872
DAY 20 Creating User Controls, Web User Controls, and Multithreading......Page 874
Creating User Controls......Page 875
Creating Web User Controls......Page 885
Supporting Multithreading......Page 891
Synchronizing Threads......Page 898
Summary......Page 903
Workshop......Page 904
DAY 21 Creating Windows Services, Web Services, and Deploying Applications......Page 906
Creating Windows Services......Page 907
Creating Web Services......Page 921
Deploying Your Applications......Page 928
Summary......Page 935
Q&A......Page 937
Workshop......Page 938
Advanced Topics......Page 940
INDEX......Page 944