Programming Visual Basic .NET, 2nd Edition By Jesse Liberty     Publisher: : O'Reilly Pub Date: : April 2003 ISBN: : 0-596-00438-9     Copyright     Preface       About This Book       How This Book Is Organized       Conventions Used in This Book       Support       We'd Like to Hear from You       Acknowledgments         Part I:  The Visual Basic .NET Language       Chapter 1.  Visual Basic .NET andthe .NET Framework       Section 1.1.  Visual Basic and .NET       Section 1.2.  The .NET Platform       Section 1.3.  The .NET Framework       Section 1.4.  Compilation and the MSIL       Section 1.5.  The VB.NET Language           Chapter 2.  Getting Started: "Hello World"       Section 2.1.  Examining Your First Program       Section 2.2.  Writing and Building Your Programs       Section 2.3.  Using the VS.NET Debugger           Chapter 3.  Language Fundamentals       Section 3.1.  VB.NET Versus VB6       Section 3.2.  VB.NET Types       Section 3.3.  Identifiers       Section 3.4.  Variables and Constants       Section 3.5.  Whitespace       Section 3.6.  Statements       Section 3.7.  Branching       Section 3.8.  Iteration (Looping) Statements       Section 3.9.  Operators       Section 3.10.  Logical Operators Within Conditionals           Chapter 4.  Object-Oriented Programming       Section 4.1.  Creating Models       Section 4.2.  Classes and Objects       Section 4.3.  Class Relationships       Section 4.4.  The Three Pillars of Object-Oriented Programming       Section 4.5.  Object-Oriented Analysis and Design           Chapter 5.  Classes and Objects       Section 5.1.  Defining Classes       Section 5.2.  Method Arguments       Section 5.3.  Constructors       Section 5.4.  Initializers       Section 5.5.  Copy Constructors       Section 5.6.  The Me Keyword       Section 5.7.  Using Shared Members       Section 5.8.  Destroying Objects       Section 5.9.  Overloading Methods and Constructors       Section 5.10.  Encapsulating Data with Properties       Section 5.11.  Passing Parameters by Value and by Reference           Chapter 6.  Inheritance and Polymorphism       Section 6.1.  Specialization and Generalization       Section 6.2.  Inheritance       Section 6.3.  Polymorphism       Section 6.4.  Abstract Methods and Classes       Section 6.5.  NotInheritable Classes       Section 6.6.  The Root of All Classes: Object       Section 6.7.  Boxing and Unboxing Types       Section 6.8.  Nested Classes           Chapter 7.  Structures       Section 7.1.  Defining a Structure       Section 7.2.  Calling the Default Constructor       Section 7.3.  Creating Structures Without New           Chapter 8.  Interfaces       Section 8.1.  Defining an Interface       Section 8.2.  Implementing an Interface       Section 8.3.  Implementing More Than One Interface       Section 8.4.  Casting to an Interface       Section 8.5.  Extending Interfaces       Section 8.6.  Combining Interfaces       Section 8.7.  Overriding Interface Implementations           Chapter 9.  Arrays, Indexers, and Collections       Section 9.1.  Arrays       Section 9.2.  Multidimensional Arrays       Section 9.3.  System.Array       Section 9.4.  Indexers and the Default Property       Section 9.5.  The Collection Interfaces: IEnumerable       Section 9.6.  .NET Collection Types: Beyond Array       Section 9.7.  Copying from a Collection Type to an Array           Chapter 10.  Strings       Section 10.1.  Creating Strings       Section 10.2.  Manipulating Strings       Section 10.3.  Regular Expressions       Section 10.4.  The Regex Class           Chapter 11.  Exceptions       Section 11.1.  Throwing and Catching Exceptions       Section 11.2.  Rethrowing Exceptions           Chapter 12.  Delegates and Events       Section 12.1.  Delegates       Section 12.2.  Multicasting       Section 12.3.  Delegates and Callback Mechanisms       Section 12.4.  Events             Part II:  Programming with VB.NET       Chapter 13.  Building Windows Applications       Section 13.1.  Creating a Simple Windows Form       Section 13.2.  Creating a Windows Forms Application       Section 13.3.  Deploying an Application           Chapter 14.  Accessing Datawith ADO.NET       Section 14.1.  Relational Databases and SQL       Section 14.2.  The ADO.NET Object Model       Section 14.3.  Getting Started with ADO.NET       Section 14.4.  Using ADO Managed Providers       Section 14.5.  Working with Data-Bound Controls       Section 14.6.  Changing Database Records       Section 14.7.  ADO.NET and XML           Chapter 15.  Building Web Applicationswith Web Forms       Section 15.1.  Understanding Web Forms       Section 15.2.  Creating a Web Form       Section 15.3.  Adding Controls       Section 15.4.  Data Binding       Section 15.5.  Responding to Postback Events           Chapter 16.  Programming Web Services       Section 16.1.  SOAP, WSDL, and Discovery       Section 16.2.  Building a Web Service       Section 16.3.  Creating the Proxy             Part III:  VB.NET and the .NET CLR       Chapter 17.  Assemblies and Versioning       Section 17.1.  PE Files       Section 17.2.  Metadata       Section 17.3.  Security Boundary       Section 17.4.  Versioning       Section 17.5.  Manifests       Section 17.6.  Multi-Module Assemblies       Section 17.7.  Private Assemblies       Section 17.8.  Shared Assemblies           Chapter 18.  Attributes and Reflection       Section 18.1.  Attributes       Section 18.2.  Reflection           Chapter 19.  Marshaling and Remoting       Section 19.1.  Application Domains       Section 19.2.  Context       Section 19.3.  Remoting           Chapter 20.  Threads and Synchronization       Section 20.1.  Threads       Section 20.2.  Synchronization       Section 20.3.  Race Conditions and Deadlocks             Colophon     Index Top