Visual Basic .NET Unleashed

Visual Basic.NET Unleashed is a complete book on the fundamentals of programming with a fully object-oriented language filled with new idioms and capabilities. In addition to the fundamentals, this book covers:

• Free threading and multithreading
• Inheritance
• Virtual methods and shared methods
• Structured exception handling
• Event handling
• Encapsulation at the namespace level
• Web Services
• .NET Framework compatibility

Table of Contents

Introduction.

I. INTRODUCING VISUAL BASIC .NET.

1. Using the Unified Visual Studio IDE.
2. Out with the Old, In with the New.
3. Basic Programming in Visual Basic .NET.
4. Macros and Visual Studio Extensibility.
5. Subroutines, Functions, and Structures.

II. ADVANCED OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING.

6. Reflection.
7. Creating Classes.
8. Adding Events.
9. Understanding Delegates.
10. Inheritance and Polymorphism.
11. Shared Members.
12. Defining Attributes.

III. USER INTERFACE DESIGN.

13. Creating a Console Application.
14. Multithreaded Applications.
15. Using Windows Forms.
16. Designing User Interfaces.
17. Programming with GDI+.

IV. WEB PROGRAMMING AND DEBUGGING.

18. Using and Implementing Web Services.
19. ASP.NET Web Programming.
20. Writing to the Event Log.
Appendix A. Visual Basic 6 Programming Element Changes in Visual Basic .NET.
Bibliography.
Index.