Visual Basic 2008 How to Program: International Version: Includes Microsoft Visual Studio, ASP.NET 3.5 All-in-one DVD
by P J DEITEL, H M DEITEL
Price: N5500
Product Code: 1275681669
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Number of Pages: 1600
Binding: Paper Back
Publisher: Pearson Education
Edition: current 2008
ISBN: 0137155360
ISSN: 978-0137155361
Availability: To be delivered within 6 working days after payment date
Summary: Appropriate for all basic-to-intermediate level courses in Visual Basic 2008 programming.
Created by world-renowned programming instructors Paul and Harvey Deitel, Visual Basic 2008 How to Program, Fourth Edition introduces all facets of the Visual Basic 2008 language hands-on, through hundreds of working programs. This book has been thoroughly updated to reflect the major innovations Microsoft has incorporated in Visual Basic 2008 and .NET 3.5; all discussions and sample code have been carefully audited against the newest Visual Basic language specification. The many new platform features covered in depth in this edition include: LINQ data queries, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), ASP.NET Ajax and the Microsoft Ajax Library, Silverlight-based rich Internet application development, and creating Web services with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). New language features introduced in this edition: object anonymous types, object initializers, implicitly typed local variables and arrays, delegates, lambda expressions, and extension methods.
Students begin by getting comfortable with the free Visual Basic Express 2008 IDE and basic VB syntax included on the CD. Next, they build their skills one step at a time, mastering control structures, classes, objects, methods, variables, arrays, and the core techniques of object-oriented programming. With this strong foundation in place, the Deitels introduce more sophisticated techniques, including inheritance, polymorphism, exception handling, strings, GUI's, data structures, generics, and collections. Throughout, the authors show developers how to make the most of Microsoft’s Visual Studio tools. A series of appendices provide essential programming reference material on topics ranging from number systems to the Visual Studio Debugger, UML 2 to Unicode and ASCII.
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Contents
1. Introduction to Computers, the Internet and Visual Basic.
2. Introduction to the Visual Basic Express 2008 IDE.
3. Introduction to Visual Basic Programming.
4. Introduction to Classes and Objects.
5. Control Statements: Part 1.
6. Control Statements: Part 2.
7. Methods: A Deeper Look.
8. Arrays.
9. Introduction to LINQ and Collections
10. Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look.
11. Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance.
12. Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism.
13. Exception Handling.
14. Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Forms.
15. Graphical User Interfaces with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and XAML.
16. Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Graphics.
17. Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions.
18. Files and Streams.
19. Extensible Markup Language (XML) and LINQ to XML.
20. Databases, LINQ to SQL
21. ASP.NET and ASP.NET Ajax.
22. Web Services and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).
23. Microsoft® Silverlight™ and Rich Internet Applications.
24. Data Structures.and Generic Collections
Appendix A. Operator Precedence Chart.
Appendix B. Primitive Types.
Appendix C. Number Systems.
Appendix D. Using the Visual Studio® Debugger.
Appendix E. ATM Case Study Code.
Appendix F. UML 2: Additional Diagram Types.
Appendix G. ASCII Character Set.
Appendix H. Unicode®.
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Features
Signature “Live Code™ Approach” — Language features are presented in the context of a wide variety of complete working programs.
Features thousands of lines of code in hundreds of complete working programs.
Enables students to confirm that programs run as expected.
Students can also download the code from the book's Companion Website (www.prenhall.com/deitel) or from the author's website (www.deitel.com).
Outstanding, consistent and applied pedagogy:
Icons throughout identify Software Engineering Observations; Good Programming Practices; Common Programming Errors; Portability Tips; Performance Tips, Testing and Debugging Tips, and Look-and-Feel Observations.
Full-color presentation, including syntax coloring, code highlighting and extensive comments
Includes optional case study on object-oriented design with UML. Walks students through a system design that is clear to OOD and UML novices, while still demonstrating key OOD concepts and related UML modeling techniques.
Hundreds of interactive self-review questions and programming exercises Includes both simple and complex exercises that can easily be tailored to the needs of specific courses and instructors.