Visual Basic .NET All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Introduction: Welcome to .NET 1 Book I The Fundamentals of Visual Basic .NET Programming 11 Chapter 1: Getting With the Program 13 Chapter 2: Common Tasks 21 Chapter 3: Managing Files and Directories 49 Chapter 4: Old Concepts in New Clothes 57 Book II Tapping the Power of .NET Editor 73 Chapter 1: Organizing Your Projects 75 Chapter 2: Viewing Your Work 85 Chapter 3: Investigating the Toolbox 97 Chapter 4: Windows, Windows Everywhere 113 Chapter 5: Customization — Doing It Your Way 125 Book III Advanced Visual Basic .NET Programming 133 Chapter 1: Understanding Variable Types 135 Chapter 2: Working with Arrays 157 Chapter 3: Serious Serialization and Streams 171 Chapter 4: Creating Runtime Controls 191 Chapter 5: Overloaded Functions and Parameters 207 Chapter 6: Smashing Bugs 217 Chapter 7: No More Paranoia — Programmatic Encryption 233 Book IV Programming for the Web 259 Chapter 1: Introduction to ASP.NET 261 Chapter 2: Everything’s Eventual 277 Chapter 3: Using ASP.NET Controls 291 Chapter 4: Making Database Connections on WebForms 303 Chapter 5: Creating a Web Service 317 Chapter 6: Bugs in the Web 335 Book V Visual Basic .NET Database Programming 351 Chapter 1: The Basics of Databases 353 Chapter 2: User Interface Techniques 377 Chapter 3: Managing DataSets 403 Chapter 4: Migrating to ADO.NET 429 Chapter 5: Deeper into ADO.NET 449 Chapter 6: Querying Data 463 Book VI Fun and Games with Graphics 489 Chapter 1: You Be Picasso 491 Chapter 2: The Creative Photographer 517 Chapter 3: Mastering .NET Printing (It’s Complicated Until You Know How) 527 Chapter 4: Constructing Wolfram Diagrams 541 Book VII Visual Basic .NET Object-Oriented Programming 559 Chapter 1: Introduction to OOP 561 Chapter 2: Creating Classes 571 Chapter 3: Inheritance 579 Chapter 4: Your First OOP Project 589 Chapter 5: Exploiting the .NET Framework 605 Appendix: Dictionary of VB.NET 623 Index 753