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1 vbhtp6printonlytoc.fm Page ix Wednesday, February 27, :59 AM Chapters are PDF documents posted online at the book s Companion Website (located at Preface Before You Begin xvii xxxi 1 Introduction to Computers, the Internet and Visual Basic Introduction Hardware and Moore s Law Data Hierarchy Computer Organization Machine Languages, Assembly Languages and High-Level Languages Object Technology Internet and World Wide Web Visual Basic Object-Oriented Programming Event-Driven Programming Visual Programming Internet and Web Programming Other Key Contemporary Programming Languages Microsoft s.net NET Framework Common Language Runtime Microsoft s Windows Operating System Windows Phone 8 for Smartphones Selling Your Apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace Free vs. Paid Apps Testing Your Windows Phone Apps Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment Test-Driving the Visual Basic Advanced Painter App in Visual Studio Dive Into Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop Introduction 27

2 vbhtp6printonlytoc.fm Page x Wednesday, February 27, :59 AM x 2.2 Overview of the Visual Studio 2012 IDE Menu Bar and Toolbar Navigating the Visual Studio IDE Solution Explorer Toolbox Properties Window Using Help Using Visual App Development to Create a Simple App that Displays Text and an Image Wrap-Up Web Resources 51 3 Introduction to Visual Basic Programming Introduction Programmatically Displaying Text in a Label Analyzing the Program Modifying ASimpleApp to Programmatically Change the Label s Text Property Addition Program Building the Addition Program Memory Concepts Arithmetic Decision Making: Equality and Relational Operators Wrap-Up 88 4 Introduction to Problem Solving and Control Statements Introduction Algorithms Pseudocode Algorithm Control Structures If Then Selection Statement If Then Else Selection Statement Nested If Then Else Selection Statements Repetition Statements Compound Assignment Operators Formulating Algorithms: Counter-Controlled Repetition Formulating Algorithms: Nested Control Statements Using the Debugger: Locating a Logic Error Breakpoints and Running the Program Data Tip Box Locals Window Using the Step Over Command to Execute Statements Wrap-Up 130

3 vbhtp6printonlytoc.fm Page xi Wednesday, February 27, :59 AM xi 5 Problem Solving and Control Statements: Part Introduction For Next Repetition Statement For Next Statement Header Components General Form of a For Next Statement Declaring the Control Variable Before a For Next Statement Using Expressions in the For Next Statement s Header For Next Statement UML Activity Diagram Local Type Inference Examples Using the For Next Statement App: Interest Calculator Formulating Algorithms: Nested Repetition Statements Select Case Multiple-Selection Statement Do Loop While and Do Loop Until Repetition Statements Using Exit to Terminate Repetition Statements Using Continue in Repetition Statements Logical Operators App: Dental Payment Calculator Wrap-Up Methods Introduction Classes and Methods Subroutines: Methods That Do Not Return a Value Functions: Methods That Return a Value Implicit Argument Conversions Option Strict and Data-Type Conversions Passing Arguments: Pass-by-Value vs. Pass-by-Reference Scope of Declarations Case Study: Random-Number Generation Scaling and Shifting of Random Numbers Randomly Selecting Images Rolling Dice Repeatedly and Displaying Statistics Case Study: A Game of Chance Method Overloading Optional Parameters Using the Debugger: Debugging Commands Wrap-Up Arrays Introduction Arrays Declaring and Allocating Arrays Initializing the Values in an Array Summing the Elements of an Array 242

4 vbhtp6printonlytoc.fm Page xii Wednesday, February 27, :59 AM xii 7.6 Using Arrays to Analyze Survey Results Die-Rolling App with an Array of Counters Case Study: Flag Quiz Passing an Array to a Method For Each Next Repetition Statement Sorting an Array with Method Sort of Class Array Searching an Array with Linear Search Searching a Sorted Array with Array Method BinarySearch Rectangular Arrays Case Study: Maintaining Grades Using a Rectangular Array Resizing an Array with the ReDim Statement Wrap-Up Files Introduction Data Hierarchy Files and Streams Test-Driving the Credit Inquiry App Writing Data Sequentially to a Text File Class CreateAccounts Opening the File Managing Resources with the Using Statement Adding an Account to the File Closing the File and Terminating the App Building Menus with the Windows Forms Designer Credit Inquiry App: Reading Data Sequentially from a Text File Implementing the Credit Inquiry App Selecting the File to Process Specifying the Type of Records to Display Displaying the Records Wrap-Up Object-Oriented Programming: Classes and Objects Introduction Classes, Objects, Methods and Instance Variables Account Class Value Types and Reference Types Case Study: Card Shuffling and Dealing Simulation Case Study: Time Class Class Scope Object Initializers Auto-Implemented Properties Using Me to Access the Current Object Garbage Collection 336

5 vbhtp6printonlytoc.fm Page xiii Wednesday, February 27, :59 AM xiii 9.12 Shared Class Members Const and ReadOnly Fields Shared Methods and Class Math Object Browser Wrap-Up Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance and Polymorphism Introduction Base Classes and Derived Classes Business Case Study: Commission Employees Class Hierarchy Creating Base Class CommissionEmployee Creating Derived Class BasePlusCommissionEmployee Testing Class BasePlusCommissionEmployee Constructors in Derived Classes Protected Members Introduction to Polymorphism: A Polymorphic Video Game Abstract Classes and Methods Case Study: Payroll System Class Hierarchy Using Polymorphism Abstract Base Class Employee Concrete Derived Class SalariedEmployee Concrete Derived Class CommissionEmployee Indirect Concrete Derived Class BasePlusCommissionEmployee Demonstrating Polymorphic Processing Online Case Study: Interfaces Wrap-Up Introduction to LINQ Introduction Querying an Array of Primitive-Type Elements Using LINQ Querying an Array of Reference-Type Elements Using LINQ Deferred Execution and Transforming Query Results LINQ Resource Center Wrap-Up Databases and LINQ Introduction Relational Databases A Books Database LINQ to Entities and the ADO.NET Entity Framework Querying a Database with LINQ Creating the ADO.NET Entity Data Model Class Library Creating a Windows Forms Project and Configuring It to Use the Entity Data Model 412

6 vbhtp6printonlytoc.fm Page xiv Wednesday, February 27, :59 AM xiv Data Bindings Between Controls and the Entity Data Model Dynamically Binding Query Results Creating the Display Query Results GUI Coding the Display Query Results App Retrieving Data from Multiple Tables with LINQ Creating a Master/Detail View App Creating the Master/Detail GUI Coding the Master/Detail App Address Book Case Study Creating the Address Book App s GUI Coding the Address Book App Tools and Web Resources Wrap-Up Web App Development with ASP.NET Introduction Web Basics Multitier App Architecture Your First Web App Building the WebTime App Examining WebTime.aspx s Code-Behind File Standard Web Controls: Designing a Form Validation Controls Session Tracking Cookies Session Tracking with HttpSessionState Options.aspx: Selecting a Programming Language Recommendations.aspx: Displaying Recommendations Based on Session Values Case Study: Database-Driven ASP.NET Guestbook Building a Web Form that Displays Data from a Database Modifying the Code-Behind File for the Guestbook App Online Case Study: ASP.NET AJAX Online Case Study: Password-Protected Books Database App Wrap-Up Windows Forms GUI: A Deeper Look Introduction Controls and Components Creating Event Handlers Control Properties and Layout GroupBoxes and Panels ToolTips Mouse-Event Handling Keyboard-Event Handling 513

7 vbhtp6printonlytoc.fm Page xv Wednesday, February 27, :59 AM xv 14.9 Menus MonthCalendar Control DateTimePicker Control LinkLabel Control ListBox and CheckedListBox Controls Multiple Document Interface (MDI) Windows Visual Inheritance Animation with the Timer Component Wrap-Up Graphics and Multimedia Introduction Drawing Classes and the Coordinate System Graphics Contexts and Graphics Objects Colors Fonts Drawing Lines, Rectangles and Ovals Drawing Arcs Drawing Polygons and Polylines Additional Brush Types Loading, Displaying and Scaling Images Windows Media Player Printing Wrap-Up 589 Online Chapters 597 A Operator Precedence Chart 598 B Primitive Types 600 C Number Systems 601 C.1 Introduction 602 C.2 Abbreviating Binary Numbers as Octal and Hexadecimal Numbers 605 C.3 Converting Octal and Hexadecimal Numbers to Binary Numbers 606 C.4 Converting from Binary, Octal or Hexadecimal to Decimal 606 C.5 Converting from Decimal to Binary, Octal or Hexadecimal 607 C.6 Negative Binary Numbers: Two s-complement Notation 609 D ASCII Character Set 613 E Unicode 614 E.1 Introduction 615

8 vbhtp6printonlytoc.fm Page xvi Wednesday, February 27, :59 AM xvi E.2 Unicode Transformation Formats 616 E.3 Characters and Glyphs 617 E.4 Advantages/Disadvantages of Unicode 618 E.5 Using Unicode 618 E.6 Character Ranges 620 F Creating Console Applications 625 F.1 Introduction 625 F.2 A Simple Console Application 625 F.3 Creating a Console Application 626 Index 629 Companion Website Online Content Chapters and Appendix F are PDF documents posted online at the book s Companion Website (located at 16 Exception Handling: A Deeper Look Strings and Characters: A Deeper Look Files and Streams: A Deeper Look XML and LINQ to XML Windows 8 UI Windows 8 Graphics and Multimedia Windows Phone 8 Case Study Introduction to Concurrency: Async and Await Web App Development with ASP.NET: A Deeper Look Web Services Windows Azure Cloud Computing Case Study Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) GUI WPF Graphics and Multimedia Data Structures and Generic Collections ATM Case Study, Part 1: Object-Oriented Design with the UML ATM Case Study, Part 2: Implementing an Object-Oriented Design 31-1