Stephens R. - Visual Basic 2012 Programmer’s Reference [2012, PDF, ENG]

INTRODUCTION xxvii
PART I IDE
Chapter 1 Introduction to the IDE 3
Chapter 2 Menus, Toolbars, and Windows15
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
Chapter 21 Metro-Style Applications 417
PART III OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
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 Confi guration 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