Book Description
The book is not a language primer, a language reference, or a single technology book. It's a book that will help professional developers move from previous versions of Visual Studio (starting with 2003 and on up). It will cover the features of Visual Studio 2010 through an application. Paul Microsoft MVP (Visual Basic) Paul, I tried grabbing a screenshot of the form (PNG) and then creating a PDF with iTextSharp, but the resulting PDF does not have highlight-able text, it's just a 'dumb' image.
Visual Basic Essentials is intended to be of use to both novices looking to learn Visual Basic, and to those proficient in other languages that plan to cross-train from other programming languages. The Visual Basic language, combined with the Visual Studio development environment, provides a uniquely powerful, yet easy to learn programming environment allowing even the absolute beginner to rapidly create and deploy Windows applications.
Visual Basic Essentials begins with instruction on designing Windows forms in Visual Studio including tasks such as designing menu systems and toolbars and wiring up event procedures. The book then introduces the basic concepts of the Visual Basic language covering concepts such as Visual Basic variable types, looping, flow control, functions and subroutines. Once the basics are covered, topics such as single and mutli-dimensional arrays, string handling, file I/O and date and time manipulation are explained. Finally, more advanced topics such as Visual Basic object oriented programming, database access and graphics drawing are detailed.
About the Authors- Neil Smyth is co-founder and CEO Payload Media, an internet and eBook publishing company based in the U.S. Prior to launching Payload Media, Neil held a number of positions in the IT industry including programming, web development, systems administration and sales and marketing and is the author of a number of technology related books. Click here to see all his 'Essentials' technical books.
This section provides reference information for various aspects of the Visual Basic language.
In This Section
Typographic and Code Conventions
Summarizes the way that keywords, placeholders, and other elements of the language are formatted in the Visual Basic documentation.
Visual Basic Runtime Library Members
Lists the classes and modules of the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace, with links to their member functions, methods, properties, constants, and enumerations.
Keywords
Lists all Visual Basic keywords and provides links to more information.
Attributes (Visual Basic)
Documents the attributes available in Visual Basic.
Constants and Enumerations
Documents the constants and enumerations available in Visual Basic.
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Data Types
Documents the data types available in Visual Basic.
Directives
Documents the compiler directives available in Visual Basic.
Functions
Documents the run-time functions available in Visual Basic.
Modifiers
Lists the Visual Basic run-time modifiers and provides links to more information.
Modules
Documents the modules available in Visual Basic and their members.
Nothing
Describes the default value of any data type.
Objects
Documents the objects available in Visual Basic and their members.
Operators
Documents the operators available in Visual Basic.
Properties
Documents the properties available in Visual Basic.
Queries
Provides reference information about using Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) expressions in your code.
Statements
Documents the declaration and executable statements available in Visual Basic.
XML Comment Tags
Describes the documentation comments for which IntelliSense is provided in the Visual Basic Code Editor.
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XML Axis Properties
Provides links to information about using XML axis properties to access XML directly in your code.
XML Literals
Provides links to information about using XML literals to incorporate XML directly in your code.
Error Messages
Provides a listing of Visual Basic compiler and run-time error messages and help on how to handle them.
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Describes how to use the command-line compiler as an alternative to compiling programs from within the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE).