Visual Basic 2012 Programmer's Reference - Rod Stephens

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Résumé :
The comprehensive guide to Visual Basic 2012 Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) is the most popular programming language in the world, with millions of lines of code used in businesses and applications of all types and sizes. In this edition of the bestselling Wrox guide, Visual Basic expert Rod Stephens offers novice and experienced developers a comprehensive tutorial and reference to Visual Basic 2012. This latest edition introduces major changes to the Visual Studio development platform, including support for developing mobile applications that can take advantage of the Windows 8 operating system. * This new edition includes information on developing Win8-compatible Metro applications using pre-loaded templates * Explores the new design features and support for WPF designers * Explains how to develop Windows smartphone apps * Covers new VB language features such as Asynch and Await Visual Basic 2012 Programmer's Reference is the programmer's go-to reference for the 2012 edition of Visual Basic.

Biographie:
Rod Stephens is a VB programming guru and the author of more than two dozen programming books, including Stephens' Visual Basic Programming 24-Hour Trainer. He also writes frequently for such magazines as Visual Basic Developer, Visual Basic Programmer's Journal, and Dr. Dobb's Journal. Rod's VB Helper website (vb-helper.com) provides thousands of pages of tips, tricks, and code examples for VB programmers.

Sommaire:
INTRODUCTION xxvii PART I: IDE CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE IDE 3 CHAPTER 2: MENUS, TOOLBARS, AND WINDOWS 15 CHAPTER 3: WINDOWS FORMS DESIGNER 35 CHAPTER 4: WPF DESIGNER 45 CHAPTER 5: VISUAL BASIC CODE EDITOR 55 CHAPTER 6: DEBUGGING 69 PART II: GETTING STARTED CHAPTER 7: SELECTING WINDOWS FORMS CONTROLS 81 CHAPTER 8: USING WINDOWS FORMS CONTROLS 97 CHAPTER 9: WINDOWS FORMS 115 CHAPTER 10: SELECTING WPF CONTROLS 131 CHAPTER 11: USING WPF CONTROLS 143 CHAPTER 12: WPF WINDOWS 171 CHAPTER 13: PROGRAM AND MODULE STRUCTURE 179 CHAPTER 14: DATA TYPES, VARIABLES, AND CONSTANTS 203 CHAPTER 15: OPERATORS 251 CHAPTER 16: SUBROUTINES AND FUNCTIONS 267 CHAPTER 17: PROGRAM CONTROL STATEMENTS 299 CHAPTER 18: ERROR HANDLING 321 CHAPTER 19: DATABASE CONTROLS AND OBJECTS 337 CHAPTER 20: LINQ 381 PART III: OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING CHAPTER 21: METRO-STYLE APPLICATIONS 417 CHAPTER 22: OOP CONCEPTS 433 CHAPTER 23: CLASSES AND STRUCTURES 449 CHAPTER 24: NAMESPACES 481 CHAPTER 25: COLLECTION CLASSES 493 CHAPTER 26: GENERICS 515 PART IV: INTERACTING WITH THE ENVIRONMENT CHAPTER 27: PRINTING 529 CHAPTER 28: CONFIGURATION AND RESOURCES 547 CHAPTER 29: STREAMS 571 CHAPTER 30: FILESYSTEM OBJECTS 585 PART V: APPENDICES APPENDIX A: USEFUL CONTROL PROPERTIES, METHODS, AND EVENTS 611 APPENDIX B: VARIABLE DECLARATIONS AND DATA TYPES 619 APPENDIX C: OPERATORS 629 APPENDIX D: SUBROUTINE AND FUNCTION DECLARATIONS 637 APPENDIX E: CONTROL STATEMENTS 641 APPENDIX F: ERROR HANDLING 647 APPENDIX G: WINDOWS FORMS CONTROLS AND COMPONENTS 649 APPENDIX H: WPF CONTROLS 657 APPENDIX I: VISUAL BASIC POWER PACKS 665 APPENDIX J: FORM OBJECTS 669 APPENDIX K: CLASSES AND STRUCTURES 681 APPENDIX L: LINQ 685 APPENDIX M: GENERICS 695 APPENDIX N: GRAPHICS 699 APPENDIX O: USEFUL EXCEPTION CLASSES 711 APPENDIX P: DATE AND TIME FORMAT SPECIFIERS 715 APPENDIX Q: OTHER FORMAT SPECIFIERS 719 APPENDIX R: THE APPLICATION CLASS 725 APPENDIX S: THE MY NAMESPACE 729 APPENDIX T: STREAMS 747 APPENDIX U: FILESYSTEM CLASSES 755 APPENDIX V: VISUAL STUDIO VERSIONS 771 INDEX 773