PROFESSIONAL
VISUAL BASIC® 2010 AND .NET 4
INTRODUCTION ........................................................... xxxv
PART I LANGUAGE CONSTRUCTS AND ENVIRONMENT
CHAPTER 1 Visual Studio 2010 .............................................. 3
CHAPTER 2 Objects and Visual Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
CHAPTER 3 Custom Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .137
CHAPTER 4 The Common Language Runtime ................................211
CHAPTER 5 Declarative Programming with Visual Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
CHAPTER 6 Exception Handling and Debugging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
CHAPTER 7 Test-Driven Development ......................................287
PART II BUSINESS OBJECTS AND DATA ACCESS
CHAPTER 8 Arrays, Collections, and Generics ................................311
CHAPTER 9 Using XML with Visual Basic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
CHAPTER 10 ADO.NET and LINQ ...........................................389
CHAPTER 11 Data Access with the Entity Framework . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437
CHAPTER 12 Working with SQL Server ......................................457
CHAPTER 13 Services (XML/WCF) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
PART III SMART CLIENT APPLICATIONS
CHAPTER 14 Windows Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541
CHAPTER 15 Advanced Windows Forms .....................................575
CHAPTER 16 User Controls Combining WPF and Windows Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599
CHAPTER 17 WPF Desktop Applications ......................................617
CHAPTER 18 Expression Blend 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
CHAPTER 19 Silverlight ....................................................679
