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Book SynopsisWould you like to write Windows programs but don't know where to start? Visual Basic. NET, the latest distribution of Microsoft's programming language was designed to let anybody-even people with no prior programming experience-create sophisticated programs with stunning user interfaces, quickly and easily.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1
Part I: Creating a Visual Basic .NET Program 7
Chapter 1: How Visual Basic .NET Works 9
Chapter 2: Using the Visual Basic .NET User Interface 15
Chapter 3: Designing Your First User Interface 25
Chapter 4: Writing BASIC Code 35
Part II: Creating User Interfaces 49
Chapter 5: User Interface Design 101 51
Chapter 6: Designing Forms 73
Chapter 7: Boxes and Buttons for Making Choices 87
Chapter 8: Text Boxes and Labels for Typing and Showing Words 95
Chapter 9: Showing Choices with List and Combo Boxes 105
Chapter 10: Fine-Tuning the Appearance of Your User Interface 115
Part III: Making Menus 121
Chapter 11: Creating and Editing Pull-Down Menus 123
Chapter 12: Submenus, Growing Menus, and Pop-Up Menus 137
Chapter 13: Showing Dialog Boxes 147
Part IV: The Basics of Writing Code 165
Chapter 14: Writing Event-Handling Procedures 167
Chapter 15: Using Variables 181
Chapter 16: Getting Data from the User 195
Chapter 17: Math 101: Arithmetic, Logical, and Comparison Operators 203
Chapter 18: Strings and Things 219
Chapter 19: Defining Constants and Using Comments 233
Chapter 20: Storing Stuff in Data Structures 245
Chapter 21: Killing Bugs 257
Part V: Making Decisions and Getting Loopy 269
Chapter 22: Making Decisions with If-Then Statements 271
Chapter 23: The Select Case Statement 281
Chapter 24: Repeating Yourself with Loops 287
Chapter 25: For-Next Loops That Can Count 295
Chapter 26: Nested Loops and Quick Exits 301
Part VI: Writing Subprograms (So You Don’t Go Crazy All at Once) 305
Chapter 27: General Procedures (Subprograms That Everyone Can Share) 307
Chapter 28: Passing Arguments 317
Chapter 29: Function, a Unique Type of Subprogram 325
Part VII: Understanding Object-Oriented Programming 335
Chapter 30: What the Heck Is Object-Oriented Programming? 337
Chapter 31: Getting Some Class with Object-Oriented Programming 345
Chapter 32: Using Inheritance and Overloading 355
Part VIII: The Part of Tens 365
Chapter 33: Ten Visual Basic .NET Topics That Didn’t Fit Anywhere Else 367
Chapter 34: (Almost) Ten Tips for Using the Visual Basic .NET User Interface 375
Index 379
