Visual Basic: A Beginner's Tutorial

Visual Basic: A Beginner's Tutorial

Designed as a beginner's tutorial to the latest version of Visual Basic, this informative guide discusses the most important features of the language and teaches how to use the .NET Framework. Written with clarity and readability in mind, it introduces important programming concepts and explains the process of building real-world applications, both desktop and web-based. With the most comprehensive coverage possible in a book for beginners, it includes such topics as VB language syntax, object-oriented programming, working with numbers and dates, error handling, input output, generics, annotations, database access, security, and application deployment. <br /> <br />Table of Contents <br />Introduction <br />Chapter 1: Your First Taste of Visual Basic <br />Chapter 2: Language Fundamentals <br />Chapter 3: Statements <br />Chapter 4: Objects and Classes <br />Chapter 5: Core Classes <br />Chapter 6: Inheritance <br />Chapter 7: Structures <br />Chapter 8: Error Handling <br />Chapter 9: Numbers and Dates <br />Chapter 10: Interfaces and Abstract Classes <br />Chapter 11: Enumerations <br />Chapter 12: Generics <br />Chapter 13: Collections <br />Chapter 14: Input/Output <br />Chapter 15: Windows Presentation Foundation <br />Chapter 16: Polymorphism <br />Chapter 17: ADO.NET <br />Appendix A: Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop <br />Appendix B: SQL Server 2012 Express