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Rod is a Microsoft Visual Basic Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and ITT adjunct instructor. He has written 18 books that have been translated into half a dozen different languages, and more than 200 magazine articles covering Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications, Delphi, and Java. He is currently a regular contributor to DevX ( www.DevX.com ).
Rod ’ s popular VB Helper web site www.vb-helper.com receives several million hits per month and contains thousands of pages of tips, tricks, and example code for Visual Basic programmers, as well as example code for this book.
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Acknowledgments vi
Introduction xxvii
Part I: IDE 1
Chapter 1: Introduction to the IDE 3
Chapter 2: Menus, Toolbars, and Windows 15
Chapter 3: Customization 43
Chapter 4: Windows Form Designer 49
Chapter 5: WPF Designer 61
Chapter 6: Visual Basic Code Editor 71
Chapter 7: Debugging 87
Part II: Getting Started 101
Chapter 8: Selecting Windows Forms Controls 103
Chapter 9: Using Windows Forms Controls 121
Chapter 10: Windows Forms 149
Chapter 11: Selecting WPF Controls 175
Chapter 12: Using WPF Controls 187
Chapter 13: WPF Windows 223
Chapter 14: Program and Module Structure 237
Chapter 15: Data Types, Variables, and Constants 261
Chapter 16: Operators 307
Chapter 17: Subroutines and Functions 327
Chapter 18: Program Control Statements 353
Chapter 19: Error Handling 377
Chapter 20: Database Controls and Objects 401
Chapter 21: LINQ 457
Chapter 22: Custom Controls 493
Chapter 23: Drag and Drop, and the Clipboard 519
Chapter 24: UAC Security 537
Part III: Object-Oriented Programming 545
Chapter 25: OOP Concepts 547
Chapter 26: Classes and Structures 563
Chapter 27: Namespaces 605
Chapter 28: Collection Classes 619
Chapter 29: Generics 647
Part IV: Graphics 659
Chapter 30: Drawing Basics 661
Chapter 31: Brushes, Pens, and Paths 697
Chapter 32: Text 727
Chapter 33: Image Processing 745
Chapter 34: Printing 761
Chapter 35: Reporting 781
Part V: Interacting with the Environment 803
Chapter 36: Configuration and Resources 805
Chapter 37: Streams 837
Chapter 38: File-System Objects 849
Chapter 39: Windows Communication Foundation 873
Chapter 40: Useful Namespaces 885
Part VI: Appendices 909
Appendix A: Useful Control Properties, Methods, and Events 911
Appendix B: Variable Declarations and Data Types 923
Appendix C: Operators 931
Appendix D: Subroutine and Function Declarations 939
Appendix E: Control Statements 943
Appendix F: Error Handling 949
Appendix G: Windows Forms Controls and Components 951
Appendix H: WPF Controls 1035
Appendix I: Visual Basic Power Packs 1043
Appendix J: Form Objects 1047
Appendix K: Classes and Structures 1063
Appendix L: LINQ 1067
Appendix M: Generics 1077
Appendix N: Graphics 1081
Appendix O: Useful Exception Classes 1095
Appendix P: Date and Time Format Specifiers 1099
Appendix Q: Other Format Specifiers 1103
Appendix R: The Application Class 1109
Appendix S: The My Namespace 1113
Appendix T: Streams 1131
Appendix U: File-System Classes 1139
Appendix V: Index of Examples 1157
Index 1177
