Beginning microsoft visual basic 2008

Beginning

Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008
Acknowledgments .........................................................................................xi Introduction ....................................................................................................... xxvii Chapter 1: Welcome to Visual Basic 2008...................................................... 1 Chapter 2: The Microsoft.NET Framework .................................................... 25 Chapter 3: Writing Software ......................................................................... 37 Chapter 4: Controlling the Flow .................................................................... 87 Chapter 5: Working with Data Structures ................................................... 133 Chapter 6: ExtensibleApplication Markup Language (XAML) ...................... 185 Chapter 7: Building Windows Applications .................................................. 211 Chapter 8: Displaying Dialog Boxes ............................................................ 257 Chapter 9: Creating Menus ........................................................................ 301 Chapter 10: Debugging and Error Handling................................................. 325 Chapter 11: Building Objects ..................................................................... 363 Chapter 12: Advanced Object-Oriented Techniques ..................................... 403 Chapter 13: Building Class Libraries ........................................................... 439 Chapter 14: Creating Windows Forms User Controls................................... 457 Chapter 15: Programming Custom Graphics ............................................... 485 Chapter 16: Accessing Databases.............................................................. 535 Chapter 17: Database Programming with SQL Server and ADO.NET ............. 555 Chapter 18:ASP.NET................................................................................. 617 Chapter 19: Web Projects .......................................................................... 653 Chapter 20: Visual Basic 2008 and XML .................................................... 677 Chapter 21: Distributed Computing with Windows Communication Foundation ..................................................... 717 Chapter 22: Building a Sequential Workflow Using the WindowsWorkflow Foundation .............................................................. 737 Chapter 23: Building Mobile Applications ................................................... 755 Chapter 24: Deploying Your Application ...................................................... 775 Chapter 25: Where to Now? ....................................................................... 793
(Continued)Appendix A: Exercise Solutions .................................................................. 797 Appendix B: Using the Microsoft Solutions Framework ................................ 827 Appendix C: An Introduction to Code Security and SSL ............................... 835 Appendix D: An Introduction to Windows CardSpace ................................... 841 Appendix E: .NET FrameworkDifferences.................................................... 849 Index ........................................................................................................ 853

Beginning

Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008
Thearon Willis and Bryan Newsome

Wiley Publishing, Inc.

Beginning Microsoft® Visual Basic® 2008
Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 10475 Crosspoint BoulevardIndianapolis, IN 46256 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2008 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada ISBN: 978-0-470-19134-7 Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Willis, Thearon. Beginning Microsoft Visual basic 2008 / Thearon Willis and Bryan Newsome. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN...