This is a guide to application development using Visual Basic .NET. Targeted at programmers with some prior programming experience, the book covers the major areas of application development for Microsoft's new .NET platform. After starting with the traditional "hello world" application, the book discusses the two basic building blocks of any .NET application built with Visual Basic - the Visual Basic .NET programming language and the .NET Framework. Topics covered include: Visual Basic language elements; Visual Basic's object-oriented language features Programming with attributes; the common language runtime; garbage collection and the finalize and dispose methods; and programmatically reading from and writing to .NET configuration files. The remainder of the book focuses on the three major kinds of applications that can be developed with the .NET Framework: Windows Forms applications, ASP.NET applications, and web services. In each case, the book shows you how to build an application using Visual Studio .NET as well as using a text editor and the Visual Basic command-line compiler.
This gives you an "under the hood" look at what Visual Studio is doing and should allow you to gain a greater understanding of how a .NET application works - an understanding that you can take advantage of in building your own applications. Individual development topics covered in these chapters include: developing multiple document interface (MDI); windows forms applications; handling form and control placement and resizing; working with Windows forms menus; working with Windows common dialogs; taking advantage of .NET printer services programmatically; using ASP.NET HTML controls and Web controls; understanding security in ASP.NET; creating, discovering, and consuming Web services; accessing data in your .NET applications using ADO.NET.
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Illustrationen
Maße
Höhe: 232 mm
Breite: 178 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-0-596-00093-6 (9780596000936)
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Preface 1. Introduction What Is the Microsoft .NET Framework? What Is Visual Basic .NET? An Example Visual Basic .NET Program 2. The Visual Basic .NET Language Source Files Identifiers Keywords Literals Types Namespaces Symbolic Constants Variables Scope Access Modifiers Assignment Operators and Expressions Statements Classes Interfaces Structures Enumerations Exceptions Delegates Events Standard Modules Attributes Conditional Compilation Summary 3. The .NET Framework Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) and Common Language Runtime (CLR) Common Type System (CTS) Portions of the CLI Modules and Assemblies Application Domains Common Language Specification (CLS) Intermediate Language (IL) and Just-In-Time (JIT) Compilation Metadata Memory Management and Garbage Collection A Brief Tour of the .NET Framework Namespaces Configuration Summary 4. Windows Forms I: Developing Desktop Applications Creating a Form Handling Form Events Relationships Between Forms MDI Applications Component Attributes 2-D Graphics Programming with GDI+ Printing Summary 5. Windows Forms II: Controls, Common Dialog Boxes, and Menus Common Controls and Components Control Events Form and Control Layout Common Dialog Boxes Menus Creating a Control Summary 6. ASP.NET and Web Forms: Developing Browser-Based Applications Creating a Web Form Handling Page Events More About Server Controls Adding Validation Using Directives to Modify Web Page Compilation ASP.NET Objects: Interacting with the Framework Discovering Browser Capabilities Maintaining State Application-Level Code and global.asax Web-Application Security Designing Custom Controls Summary 7. Web Services Creating a Web Service Testing a Web Service with a Browser Web-Service Descriptions Consuming a Web Service Web-Service Discovery Limitations of Web Services Summary 8. ADO.NET: Developing Database Applications A Brief History of Universal Data Access Managed Providers Connecting to a SQL Server Database Connecting to an OLE DB Data Source Reading Data into a DataSet Relations Between DataTables in a DataSet The DataSet's XML Capabilities Binding a DataSet to a Windows Forms DataGrid Binding a DataSet to a Web Forms DataGrid Typed DataSets Reading Data Using a DataReader Executing Stored ProceduresThrough a SqlCommand Object Summary A. Custom Attributes Defined in the System Namespace B. Exceptions Defined in the System Namespace C. Cultures D. Resources for Developers E. Math Functions Index
