Visual Basic 2005 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

Description

Whatever your situation, one thing is certain: you will always know what you want to do, but not necessarily how best to do it. This book has been written to help you through those difficult decisions and is an invaluable companion when tackling a wide range of Visual Basic 2005 problems.

Mastering .NET development is as much about understanding the functionality of the .NET Framework as it is about the syntax and grammar of your chosen language. Visual Basic 2005 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach recognizes this fine balance. This book meets your need for fast, effective solutions to the difficulties you encounter in your coding projects.

The recipes have been chosen with professional developers in mind and feature a careful balance of code and textthe code gives you everything you need to solve the problem at hand, while the accompanying text carefully explains how it solves your problem and, more importantly, why it works the way it does.
 

Table of Contents

About the Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
About the Technical Reviewer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
■CHAPTER 1 Application Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
■CHAPTER 2 Data Manipulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
■CHAPTER 3 Application Domains, Reflection, and Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
■CHAPTER 4 Threads, Processes, and Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
■CHAPTER 5 Files, Directories, and I/O . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
■CHAPTER 6 XML Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
■CHAPTER 7 Windows Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
■CHAPTER 8 Multimedia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
■CHAPTER 9 Database Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
■CHAPTER 10 Networking and Remoting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373
■CHAPTER 11 Security and Cryptography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
■CHAPTER 12 Unmanaged Code Interoperability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
■CHAPTER 13 Commonly Used Interfaces and Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
■CHAPTER 14 Windows Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545
■CHAPTER 15 Language Integrated Query (LINQ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 571
■APPENDIX Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603
■Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609