Visual Basic 2010 Unleashed

Table of Contents......Page 7
What Is the .NET Framework?......Page 36
The Common Language Runtime......Page 39
The Base Class Library......Page 40
.NET Languages......Page 41
.NET Framework Tools......Page 42
What\'s New in .NET Framework 4.0......Page 43
What\'s New in Visual Studio 2010......Page 46
Start Page......Page 47
Working with Projects and Solutions......Page 50
Working with Tool Windows......Page 61
My Project......Page 66
Compiling Projects......Page 72
Debugging Overview......Page 82
Browsing the Visual Basic and .NET Documentation......Page 89
Brief Overview of Types and Members......Page 94
Visual Basic 2010 Reserved Keywords......Page 102
Understanding Project Files......Page 105
Understanding References......Page 114
Common Type System......Page 120
Understanding Value Types......Page 124
Understanding Reference Types......Page 136
Differences Between Value Types and Reference Types......Page 139
Converting Between Value Types and Reference Types......Page 145
Conversion Operators......Page 154
Working with .NET Fundamental Types......Page 159
Common Operators......Page 190
Iterations, Loops, and Conditional Code Blocks......Page 201
Preparing an Example......Page 212
Debugging Instrumentation......Page 213
Debugger Visualizers......Page 226
Debugging in Code......Page 227
Introducing Exceptions......Page 242
Handling Exceptions......Page 243
Declaring Classes......Page 260
Fields......Page 262
Properties......Page 264
Scope......Page 269
Methods......Page 271
Partial Classes......Page 281
Partial Methods......Page 284
Constructors......Page 286
Shared Members......Page 292
Common Language Specification......Page 297
Understanding Memory Allocation......Page 302
Understanding Garbage Collection......Page 303
Understanding the Finalize Method......Page 304
Understanding Dispose and the IDisposable Interface......Page 306
Object Resurrection......Page 311
Advanced Garbage Collection......Page 312
Understanding What Namespaces Are......Page 316
Organizing Types Within Namespaces......Page 317
Modules Overview......Page 330
Differences Between Modules and Classes......Page 332
11 Structures and Enumerations......Page 334
Passing Structures to Methods......Page 337
Memory Allocation......Page 338
Organizing Structures......Page 339
Overloading Operators......Page 340
Structures and Common Language Specification......Page 343
Enumerations......Page 344
12 Inheritance......Page 352
Applying Inheritance......Page 353
Illustrating System.Object in Detail......Page 356
Introducing Polymorphism......Page 358
Overriding Members......Page 360
Conditioning Inheritance......Page 363
Accessing Base Classes Members......Page 366
Constructors\' Inheritance......Page 370
Shadowing......Page 371
Overriding Shared Members......Page 372
Practical Inheritance: Building Custom Exceptions......Page 373
Defining Interfaces......Page 376
Implementing and Accessing Interfaces......Page 378
Interfaces and Polymorphism......Page 380
Interfaces Inheritance......Page 381
Defining CLS-Compliant Interfaces......Page 382
Most Common .NET Interfaces......Page 383
Introducing Generics......Page 394
Creating and Consuming Generics......Page 395
Introducing Nullable Types......Page 402
Understanding Delegates......Page 406
Handling Events......Page 410
Offering Events to the External World......Page 413
Understanding Collections Architecture......Page 420
Working with Nongeneric Collections......Page 421
Working with Generic Collections......Page 430
Building Custom Collections......Page 440
Concurrent Collections......Page 441
Visual Studio Class Designer......Page 442
Class View Window......Page 452
Class Details Window......Page 453
Coding New Types......Page 456
Generating Complex Objects......Page 461
Manipulating Directories and Pathnames......Page 464
Handling Exceptions for Directories and Pathnames......Page 470
Manipulating Files......Page 471
Introducing Streams......Page 475
Introducing My......Page 486
My.Application......Page 487
My.Computer......Page 491
My.Settings......Page 499
My.Resources......Page 505
My.User......Page 509
Extending My......Page 511
My in Different Applications......Page 515
Local Type Inference......Page 520
Array Literals......Page 524
Extension Methods......Page 525
Anonymous Types......Page 533
Lambda Expressions......Page 535
Ternary If Operator......Page 542
Generic Variance......Page 544
Introducing ADO.NET......Page 548
Introducing DataSets......Page 552
What Is LINQ?......Page 558
LINQ Examples......Page 560
Language Support......Page 561
Understanding Providers......Page 562
Overview of LINQ Architecture......Page 563
Introducing LINQ to Objects......Page 566
Querying in Memory Objects......Page 567
Introducing Standard Query Operators......Page 576
Introducing LINQ to SQL......Page 596
Querying Data with LINQ to SQL......Page 609
Insert/Update/Delete Operations with LINQ......Page 614
Advanced LINQ to SQL......Page 623
LINQ to SQL with SQL Server Compact Edition......Page 627
Querying Datasets with LINQ......Page 630
LINQ to DataSets\' Extension Methods......Page 633
Introducing Entity Framework......Page 638
Understanding Entity Data Models......Page 639
Insert/Update/Delete Operations for Entities......Page 655
Querying EDMs with LINQ to Entities......Page 663
Querying EDMs with Entity SQL......Page 664
Mapping Stored Procedures......Page 666
Introducing LINQ to Xml......Page 670
Xml Literals......Page 676
Xml Schema Inference......Page 684
Introducing PLINQ......Page 690
Handling Exceptions......Page 698
What Windows Forms Is Today......Page 700
Creating Windows Forms Applications......Page 701
Building Windows Forms Applications with ADO.NET Entity Framework and Chart Control......Page 703
31 Creating WPF Applications......Page 716
What Is WPF?......Page 717
WPF Architecture......Page 718
Building WPF Applications with Visual Studio 2010......Page 720
Understanding the eXtensible Application Markup Language (XAML)......Page 722
Understanding Visual Tree and Logical Tree......Page 727
Handling Events in WPF......Page 729
Arranging Controls with Panels......Page 732
Managing Windows......Page 739
Introducing the Application Object......Page 742
Brief Overview of WPF Browser Applications......Page 745
Introducing WPF Controls Features......Page 750
Understanding the ContentControl......Page 751
Understanding Common Controls......Page 752
Using Common Dialogs......Page 778
Introducing Brushes......Page 780
Introducing Styles......Page 794
Introducing Control Templates......Page 798
Introducing Transformations......Page 801
Introducing Animations......Page 805
Viewing Images......Page 816
Playing Media......Page 818
Manipulating Documents......Page 821
Viewing XPS Documents......Page 831
Introducing the Data-Binding......Page 834
Discussing the New Drag\'n\'Drop Data-Binding......Page 841
Introducing .NET Localization......Page 864
Windows Forms Localization......Page 865
WPF Localization......Page 867
Introducing the ASP.NET Model......Page 874
Web Forms and Master Pages......Page 877
ASP.NET Controls......Page 880
Understanding State Management......Page 883
Creating a Web Application with VB 2010 with Navigation and Data-Binding......Page 886
Configuring a Web Application for Security......Page 898
Deployment Overview......Page 900
Classic Publishing......Page 901
MSDeploy Publish......Page 903
Introducing Silverlight......Page 906
Creating Silverlight Projects with Visual Basic 2010......Page 907
Adding Controls and Handling Events......Page 910
Playing Media......Page 911
Animating UI Elements......Page 915
Introducing Navigation Applications......Page 917
Introducing WCF RIA Services......Page 921
\"Out of Browser\" Applications......Page 929
About Windows Azure Platform......Page 934
Downloading and Installing Tools for Visual Studio......Page 936
Creating a Demo Project......Page 937
Deploying Applications to Windows Azure......Page 948
Activating the Storage Account......Page 956
41 Creating and Consuming WCF Services......Page 962
Introducing Windows Communication Foundation......Page 963
Implementing WCF Services......Page 964
Consuming WCF Services......Page 972
Handling Exceptions in WCF......Page 978
Hosting WCF Services in Internet Information Services......Page 979
Configuring Services with the Configuration Editor......Page 980
What Are Data Services?......Page 984
Implementing WCF Data Services......Page 986
Consuming WCF Data Services......Page 992
Implementing Service Operations......Page 998
Implementing Query Interceptors......Page 1000
Understanding Server-Driven Paging......Page 1003
43 Serialization......Page 1006
Objects Serialization......Page 1007
XML Serialization......Page 1014
Custom Serialization......Page 1017
Serialization with XAML......Page 1019
Serialization in Windows Communication Foundation......Page 1022
Serialization in the ADO.NET Entity Framework......Page 1025
44 Processes and Multithreading......Page 1028
Managing Processes......Page 1029
Introducing Multithreading......Page 1031
Understanding the .NET Thread Pool......Page 1032
Threads Synchronization......Page 1034
45 Parallel Programming......Page 1040
Introducing Parallel Computing......Page 1041
Understanding and Using Tasks......Page 1042
Parallel Loops......Page 1050
Debugging Tools For Parallel Tasks......Page 1056
Concurrent Collections......Page 1057
Assembly Overview......Page 1064
Understanding Application Domains......Page 1066
Overview of Security Changes in .NET 4.0......Page 1069
Introducing Reflection......Page 1078
Understanding Assemblies\' Metadata......Page 1079
Getting Assembly Information......Page 1081
Reflecting Types......Page 1083
Invoking Code Dynamically......Page 1090
Generating Code at Runtime with Reflection.Emit......Page 1092
Applying Attributes......Page 1100
Coding Custom Attributes......Page 1103
Reflecting Attributes......Page 1108
Importing and Using COM Objects......Page 1110
Exposing .NET Objects to the COM World......Page 1113
P/Invokes and Unmanaged Code......Page 1116
References to the Win32 API calls......Page 1124
Understanding XML Documents......Page 1126
Implementing XML Comments......Page 1128
Generating Compiled Help Files......Page 1137
Introducing MSBuild......Page 1140
Advanced MSBuild Features......Page 1149
52 Building Customizations for Microsoft Office......Page 1154
Introducing the Visual Studio Tools for Office......Page 1155
Creating an Application-Level Add-In for Microsoft Word......Page 1156
Creating a Document-Level Add-In for Microsoft Excel......Page 1161
Deploying VSTO Add-Ins......Page 1167
The Dll Hell Problem......Page 1172
The Global Assembly Cache......Page 1174
Windows Installer Overview......Page 1180
Creating a Setup Project......Page 1181
Configuring the Setup Project......Page 1184
Building and Deploying the Windows Installer Package......Page 1193
Introducing ClickOnce......Page 1194
Deploying Applications with ClickOnce......Page 1196
Configuring ClickOnce......Page 1200
Security Considerations......Page 1204
Programmatically Accessing ClickOnce......Page 1206
Registration-Free COM......Page 1207
Exporting Templates......Page 1210
Customizing Visual Studio 2010......Page 1216
Managing User Settings......Page 1220
Customizing the Toolbox......Page 1224
Using, Creating, and Managing Reusable Code Snippets......Page 1225
Introducing Visual Studio Extensibility......Page 1234
Building a Visual Studio Package......Page 1236
Deploying Visual Studio Extensions......Page 1247
Managing Extensions with the Extension Manager......Page 1249
Managing Add-Ins with the Add-In Manager......Page 1251
Extending the Code Editor......Page 1252
58 Advanced Analysis Tools......Page 1258
Performing Code Analysis......Page 1259
Calculating Code Metrics......Page 1265
Profiling Applications......Page 1266
IntelliTrace, the Historical Debugger......Page 1277
Generating Dependency Graphs......Page 1283
Testing Code with Unit Tests......Page 1286
Introducing Test-Driven Development......Page 1296
Understanding Code Contracts......Page 1302
Installing Visual Studio 2010......Page 1310
Installing the Offline Documentation......Page 1313
Running Visual Studio 2010 for the First Time......Page 1314
Visual Basic Resources in MSDN......Page 1316
Coding Tools......Page 1317
Diagnostics and Performance......Page 1318
Where Do I Find Additional Tools?......Page 1319
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