Table of Contents
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
