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Visual Basic
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2010
UNLEASHED
800 East 96th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240 USA
Alessandro Del Sole
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Visual Basic
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2010 Unleashed
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ISBN-10: 0-672-33154-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-672-33154-1
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Del Sole, Alessandro.
Visual Basic 2010 unleashed / Alessandro Del Sole.
p. cm.
Includes index.
ISBN 978-0-672-33100-8
1. BASIC (Computer program language) 2. Microsoft Visual BASIC. I. Title.
QA76.73.B3D467 2010
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2010012721
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Contents at a Glance
Part I Learning the Basics of VB
1 Introducing the .NET Framework 4.0.............................................................1
2 Getting Started with the Visual Studio 2010 IDE .......................................11
3 The Anatomy of a Visual Basic Project.........................................................59
4 Data Types and Expressions..........................................................................85
5 Debugging Visual Basic 2010 Applications ................................................177
6 Handling Errors and Exceptions.................................................................207
Part II Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic 2010
7 Class Fundamentals ....................................................................................225
8 Managing an Object’s Lifetime...................................................................267
9 Organizing Types Within Namespaces.......................................................281
10 Modules.......................................................................................................295
11 Structures and Enumerations .....................................................................299
12 Inheritance ..................................................................................................317
13 Interfaces .....................................................................................................341
14 Generics and Nullable Types ......................................................................359
15 Delegates and Events ..................................................................................371
16 Working with Collections ...........................................................................385
17 Visually Designing Objects .........................................................................407
18 “Generate From Usage” Coding Techniques..............................................421
Part III Advanced VB Language features
19 Manipulating Files and Streams .................................................................429
20 The My Namespace.....................................................................................451
21 Advanced Language Features......................................................................485
Part IV Data Access with ADO.NET and LINQ
22 Introducing ADO.NET and DataSets . ........................................................513
23 Introducing LINQ .......................................................................................523
24 LINQ to Objects .........................................................................................531
25 LINQ to SQL................................................................................................561
26 LINQ to DataSets.........................................................................................595
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27 Introducing ADO.NET Entity Framework ..................................................603
28 Manipulating Xml Documents with LINQ and Xml Literals ....................635
29 Overview of Parallel LINQ ..........................................................................655
Part V Building Windows Applications
30 Creating Windows Forms 4.0 Applications................................................665
31 Creating WPF Applications ........................................................................681
32 WPF Common Controls .............................................................................715
33 Brushes, Styles, Templates, and Animations in WPF .................................745
34 Manipulating Documents and Media ........................................................781
35 Introducing Data-Binding...........................................................................799
36 Localizing Applications...............................................................................829
Part VI Building Web Applications
37 Building ASP.NET Web Applications .........................................................839
38 Publishing ASP.NET Web Applications ......................................................865
39 Building Rich Internet Applications with Silverlight.................................871
40 Building and Deploying Applications for Windows Azure........................899
Part VII Networking and Exposing Data Through Networks
41 Creating and Consuming WCF Services ....................................................927
42 Implementing and Consuming WCF Data Services ..................................949
Part VIII Advanced .NET Framework with VB 2010
43 Serialization.................................................................................................971
44 Processes and Multithreading.....................................................................993
45 Parallel Programming ...............................................................................1005
46 Working with Assemblies .........................................................................1029
47 Reflection ..................................................................................................1043
48 Coding Attributes......................................................................................1065
49 Platform Invokes and Interoperability with the COM Architecture .......1075
50 Documenting the Source Code ................................................................1091
51 Advanced Compilations with MSBuild ....................................................1105
52 Building Customizations for Microsoft Office .........................................1119
Part IX Applications Deployment
53 Understanding the Global Assembly Cache . ..........................................1137
54 Setup & Deployment Projects for Windows Installer . ............................1145
55 Deploying Applications with ClickOnce. ................................................1159
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