Starting Out With Visual Basic: International Edition

Name: Starting Out With Visual Basic: International Edition
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Kip Irvine Tony Gaddis(Author)

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Published on 14. November 2013

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Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Introduction to Programming and Visual Basic
1.1 Computer Systems: Hardware and Software
1.2 Programs and Programming Languages
TUTORIAL 1-1: Running the Wage Calculator application
TUTORIAL 1-2: Running an application that demonstrates event handlers
1.3 More about Controls and Programming
TUTORIAL 1-3: Running an application that demonstrates various controls
1.4 The Programming Process
1.5 Visual Studio and Visual Studio Express (the Visual Basic Environment)
TUTORIAL 1-4: Starting Visual Studio and setting up the environment
TUTORIAL 1-5: Starting a new Visual Basic project
TUTORIAL 1-6: Becoming familiar with the Visual Studio environment
Summary
Key Terms
Review Questions and Exercises
Programming Challenges
Chapter 2 Creating Applications with Visual Basic
2.1 Focus on Problem Solving: Building the Directions Application
TUTORIAL 2-1: Beginning the Directions application
TUTORIAL 2-2: Adding a Label control to the Directions application
TUTORIAL 2-3: Changing the Label's font size and style
TUTORIAL 2-4: Deleting a control
TUTORIAL 2-5: Inserting a PictureBox control
TUTORIAL 2-6: Running the application
TUTORIAL 2-7: Opening an existing project and becoming familiar with the Properties window
2.2 Focus on Problem Solving: Responding to Events
TUTORIAL 2-8: Adding a Label control for the written directions
TUTORIAL 2-9: Adding the Display Directions button and its Click event handler
TUTORIAL 2-10: Adding the Exit button and its Click event handler
TUTORIAL 2-11: Adding comments to the Directions project code
TUTORIAL 2-12: Changing the text colors
TUTORIAL 2-13: Setting the FormBorderStyle property and locking the controls in the Directions application
2.3 Modifying a Control's Text Property with Code
TUTORIAL 2-14: Examining an application that displays messages in a Label control
2.4 The AutoSize, BorderStyle, and TextAlign Properties
2.5 Displaying User Messages
TUTORIAL 2-15: Displaying message boxes
2.6 Clickable Images
TUTORIAL 2-16: Writing Click event handlers for PictureBox controls
2.7 Using Visual Studio Help
2.8 Debugging Your Application
TUTORIAL 2-17: Locating a compile error in design mode
Summary
Key Terms
Review Questions and Exercises
Programming Challenges
Chapter 3 Variables and Calculations
3.1 Gathering Text Input
TUTORIAL 3-1: Using a TextBox control
TUTORIAL 3-2: Building the Date String application
TUTORIAL 3-3: Using the Focus method
TUTORIAL 3-4: Changing the tab order
TUTORIAL 3-5: Setting access keys, accept, and cancel buttons
3.2 Variables and Data Types
TUTORIAL 3-6: Assigning text to a variable
3.3 Performing Calculations
3.4 Mixing Different Data Types
TUTORIAL 3-7: Examining a Simple Calculator application
3.5 Formatting Numbers and Dates
TUTORIAL 3-8: Examining the Format Demo application
3.6 Class-Level Variables
3.7 Exception Handling
TUTORIAL 3-9: Exception Demonstration
TUTORIAL 3-10: Salary Calculator project with exception handling
3.8 Group Boxes
3.9 The Load Event
3.10 Focus on Program Design and Problem Solving: Building the Room Charge Calculator Application
TUTORIAL 3-11: Beginning the Room Charge Calculator application
TUTORIAL 3-12: Changing a label's colors
3.11 More about Debugging: Locating Logic Errors
TUTORIAL 3-13: Single-stepping through an application's code at runtime
Summary
Key Terms
Review Questions and Exercises
Programming Challenges
Chapter 4 Making Decisions
4.1 The Decision Structure
4.2 The If...Then Statement
TUTORIAL 4-1: Examining an application that uses the If...Then statement
4.3 The If...Then...Else Statement
TUTORIAL 4-2: Completing an application that uses the If...Then...Else statement
4.4 The If...Then...ElseIf Statement
TUTORIAL 4-3: Completing an application that uses the If...Then...ElseIf statement
4.5 Nested If Statements
TUTORIAL 4-4: Completing an application with a nested If statement
4.6 Logical Operators
4.7 Comparing, Testing, and Working with Strings
TUTORIAL 4-5: Examining an application that performs string comparisons
TUTORIAL 4-6: Completing a string searching application
4.8 The Select Case Statement
TUTORIAL 4-7: Examining Crazy Al's Sales Commission Calculator application
4.9 Introduction to Input Validation
TUTORIAL 4-8: Examining an application that uses TryParse for input validation
4.10 Focus on GUI Design: Radio Buttons and Check Boxes
TUTORIAL 4-9: Completing an application with radio buttons and check boxes
4.11 Focus on Program Design and Problem Solving: Building the Health Club Membership Fee Calculator Application
TUTORIAL 4-10: Building the Health Club Membership Fee Calculator application
Summary
Key Terms
Review Questions and Exercises
Programming Challenges
Chapter 5 Lists and Loops
5.1 Input Boxes
5.2 List Boxes
TUTORIAL 5-1: Creating list boxes
5.3 Introduction to Loops: The Do While Loop
TUTORIAL 5-2: Completing an application that uses the Do While loop
TUTORIAL 5-3: Modifying the Do While Demo application to use a posttest loop
TUTORIAL 5-4: Using a loop to keep a running total
TUTORIAL 5-5: Examining an application that uses a user-controlled loop
5.4 The Do Until and For...Next Loops
TUTORIAL 5-6: Examining an application that uses the Do Until loop
TUTORIAL 5-7: Examining an application that uses the For...Next loop
TUTORIAL 5-8: Completing an application that uses the For...Next loop
5.5 Nested Loops
5.6 Multicolumn List Boxes, Checked List Boxes, and Combo Boxes
TUTORIAL 5-9: Creating combo boxes
5.7 Random Numbers
TUTORIAL 5-10: Creating the Coin Toss application
5.8 Simplifying Code with the With...End With Statement
5.9 ToolTips
TUTORIAL 5-11: Adding ToolTips to an application
5.10 Focus on Program Design and Problem Solving: Building the Vehicle Loan Calculator Application
TUTORIAL 5-12: Building the Vehicle Loan Calculator application
Summary
Key Terms
Review Questions and Exercises
Programming Challenges
Chapter 6 Procedures and Functions
6.1 Procedures
TUTORIAL 6-1: Examining an application with a procedure
TUTORIAL 6-2: Creating and calling procedures
6.2 Passing Arguments to Procedures
TUTORIAL 6-3: Examining an application that demonstrates passing an argument to a procedure
TUTORIAL 6-4: Working with ByVal and ByRef
6.3 Functions
TUTORIAL 6-5: Sale Price Calculator application
6.4 More about Debugging: Stepping Into, Over, and Out of Procedures and Functions
TUTORIAL 6-6: Practicing the Step Into command
TUTORIAL 6-7: Practicing the Step Over command
TUTORIAL 6-8: Practicing the Step Out command
6.5 Focus on Program Design and Problem Solving: Building the Bagel and Coffee Price Calculator Application
TUTORIAL 6-9: Building the Bagel House application
Summary
Key Terms
Review Questions and Exercises
Programming Challenges
Chapter 7 Multiple Forms, Modules, and Menus
7.1 Multiple Forms
TUTORIAL 7-1: Creating an application with two forms
TUTORIAL 7-2: Completing an application that displays modal and modeless forms
TUTORIAL 7-3: Accessing a control on a different form
7.2 Modules
TUTORIAL 7-4: Examining an application that uses a module
7.3 Menus
TUTORIAL 7-5: Building a menu
7.4 Focus on Problem Solving: Building the High Adventure Travel Agency Price Quote Application
TUTORIAL 7-6: Building the High Adventure Travel Agency Price Quote application
Summary
Key Terms
Review Questions and Exercises
Programming Challenges
Chapter 8 Arrays and More
8.1 Arrays
TUTORIAL 8-1: Using an array to hold a list of random lottery numbers
TUTORIAL 8-2: Using an array to hold a list of names entered by the user
TUTORIAL 8-3: Completing an application that uses array elements in a calculation
8.2 Array Processing Techniques
TUTORIAL 8-4: Using parallel arrays
8.3 Procedures and Functions That Work with Arrays
TUTORIAL 8-5: Examining an application that passes an array to procedures and functions
8.4 Multidimensional Arrays
TUTORIAL 8-6: Completing the Seating Chart application
8.5 Focus on GUI Design: The Enabled Property and the Timer Control
TUTORIAL 8-7: The Timer Demo
TUTORIAL 8-8: Creating the Catch Me game
8.6 Focus on GUI Design: Anchoring and Docking Controls
8.7 Focus on Problem Solving: Building the Demetris Leadership Center Application
TUTORIAL 8-9: Building the Demetris Leadership Center Sales Reporting application
8.8 Using Lists to Hold Information (Optional Topic)
TUTORIAL 8-10: Building a List from User Input
Summary
Key Terms
Review Questions and Exercises
Programming Challenges
Chapter 9 Files, Printing, and Structures
9.1 Using Files
TUTORIAL 9-1: Completing an application that writes data to a file
TUTORIAL 9-2: Completing an application that reads a file
TUTORIAL 9-3: Examining an application that detects the end of a file
9.2 The OpenFileDialog, SaveFileDialog, FontDialog, and ColorDialog Controls
TUTORIAL 9-4: Creating a Simple Text Editor application
9.3 The PrintDocument Control
TUTORIAL 9-5: Adding printing capabilities to the Simple Text Editor application
9.4 Structures
TUTORIAL 9-6: Examining an application with a structure
Summary
Key Terms
Review Questions and Exercises
Programming Challenges
Chapter 10 Working with Databases
10.1 Database Management Systems
10.2 Database Concepts
10.3 DataGridView Control
TUTORIAL 10-1: Showing a database table in a DataGridView control
TUTORIAL 10-2: Sorting and updating the SalesStaff table
10.4 Data-Bound Controls
TUTORIAL 10-3: Binding a DataGridView to the SalesStaff table
TUTORIAL 10-4: Binding individual controls to the SalesStaff table
TUTORIAL 10-5: Displaying the Karate Members table in a ListBox Control
TUTORIAL 10-6: Inserting Karate member payments
TUTORIAL 10-7: Adding a total to the Insert Karate Payments application
10.5 Structured Query Language (SQL)
TUTORIAL 10-8: Filtering rows in the SalesStaff table
10.6 Focus on Problem Solving: Karate School Management Application
TUTORIAL 10-9: Creating the Karate School Manager startup form
TUTORIAL 10-10: Adding the Membership / List All function to the Karate School Manager
TUTORIAL 10-11: Adding the Membership / Add New Member function to the Karate School Manager
TUTORIAL 10-12: Adding the Membership / Find Member function to the Karate School Manager
TUTORIAL 10-13: Adding the Payments / All Members function to the Karate School Manager
10.7 Introduction to LINQ
10.8 Creating Your Own Database
TUTORIAL 10-14: Creating the Movie database and the Films table
Summary
Key Terms
Review Questions and Exercises
Programming Challenges
Chapter 11 Developing Web Applications
11.1 Programming for the Web
11.2 Creating ASP.NET Applications
TUTORIAL 11-1: Creating the Click application
11.3 Web Server Controls
TUTORIAL 11-2: Student Picnic application
11.4 Designing Web Forms
TUTORIAL 11-3: Signing up for a Kayak Tour
11.5 Applications with Multiple Web Pages
TUTORIAL 11-4: Adding a description form to the Kayak Tour application
11.6 Using Databases
TUTORIAL 11-5: Displaying the Karate Members table in a GridView
TUTORIAL 11-6: Updating the Karate Members table
Summary
Key Terms
Review Questions and Exercises
Programming Challenges
Chapter 12 Classes, Collections, and Inheritance
12.1 Classes and Objects
12.2 Creating a Class
TUTORIAL 12-1: Creating the Student Data application
12.3 Collections
12.4 Focus on Problem Solving: Creating the Student Collection Application
TUTORIAL 12-2: Completing the Student Collection application
12.5 The Object Browser
TUTORIAL 12-3: Using the Object Browser
12.6 Introduction to Inheritance
TUTORIAL 12-4: Completing an application that uses inheritance
Summary
Key Terms
Review Questions and Exercises
Programming Challenges
Appendix A: Advanced User Interface Controls and Techniques
Appendix B: Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Appendix C: Converting Mathematical Expressions to Programming Statements
Appendix D: Answers to Checkpoints
Appendix E: Glossary
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