Book description
The comprehensive guide to Visual Basic 2012
Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) is the most popular programming language in the world, with millions of lines of code used in businesses and applications of all types and sizes. In this edition of the bestselling Wrox guide, Visual Basic expert Rod Stephens offers novice and experienced developers a comprehensive tutorial and reference to Visual Basic 2012. This latest edition introduces major changes to the Visual Studio development platform, including support for developing mobile applications that can take advantage of the Windows 8 operating system.
This new edition includes information on developing Win8-compatible Metro applications using pre-loaded templates
Explores the new design features and support for WPF designers
Explains how to develop Windows smartphone apps
Covers new VB language features such as Asynch and Await
Visual Basic 2012 Programmer's Reference is the programmer's go-to reference for the 2012 edition of Visual Basic.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Part I: IDE
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Part II: Getting Started
- Chapter 7: Selecting Windows Forms Controls
- Chapter 8: Using Windows Forms Controls
- Chapter 9: Windows Forms
- Chapter 10: Selecting WPF Controls
- Chapter 11: Using Wpf Controls
- Chapter 12: WPF Windows
- Chapter 13: Program and Module Structure
- Chapter 14: Data Types, Variables, and Constants
- Chapter 15: Operators
- Chapter 16: Subroutines and Functions
- Chapter 17: Program Control Statements
- Chapter 18: Error Handling
- Chapter 19: Database Controls and Objects
- Chapter 20: LINQ
- Chapter 21: Metro-Style Applications
- Part III: Object-Oriented Programming
- Part IV: Interacting With The Environment
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Appendices
- Appendix A: Useful Control Properties, Methods, and Events
- Appendix B: Variable Declarations and Data Types
- Appendix C: Operators
- Appendix D: Subroutine and Function Declarations
- Appendix E: Control Statements
- Appendix F: Error Handling
- Appendix G: Windows Forms Controls and Components
- Appendix H: WPF Controls
- Appendix I: Visual Basic Power Packs
- Appendix J: Form Objects
- Appendix K: Classes and Structures
- Appendix L: LINQ
- Appendix M: Generics
- Appendix N: Graphics
- Appendix O: Useful Exception Classes
- Appendix P: Date And Time Format Specifiers
- Appendix Q: Other Format Specifiers
- Appendix R: The Application Class
- Appendix S: The My Namespace
- Appendix T: Streams
- Appendix U: Filesystem Classes
- Appendix V: Visual Studio Versions
- Introduction
- Advertisements
Product information
- Title: Visual Basic 2012 Programmer's Reference
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2012
- Publisher(s): Wrox
- ISBN: 9781118314074
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