... Introduction
Visual Studio 2010 Software Support
For questions about the Visual Studio 2010 software, I recommend two Microsoft Web sites:
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http://msdn .microsoft. com/vbasic/ (the MicrosoftVisualBasic ... Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual
InterDev, Visual Studio, Windows, Windows Azure, Windows Server, Windows Vista and Zoo Tycoon are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft ... newer file format, you might be trying to load VisualBasic2010 files into
an older version of the VisualBasic software. (Earlier versions of VisualBasic can’t open
the VisualBasic2010 projects...
... of VisualBasic2010 and Visual Studio 2010, but especially with the tools
and techniques available in Visual Studio 2010 Professional and VisualBasic2010 Express.
Although VisualBasic2010 ... Click the MicrosoftVisual Studio 2010 icon.
Tip If you are using VisualBasic2010 Express, click the MicrosoftVisualBasic2010
Express icon.
If this is the first time you are starting Visual ... Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual
InterDev, Visual Studio, Windows, Windows Azure, Windows Server, Windows Vista and Zoo Tycoon are either registered
trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft...
... course:
➤ MicrosoftVisualBasic2010 Professional Edition
or
➤ MicrosoftVisualBasic2010 Premium Edition
or
➤ MicrosoftVisualBasic2010 Ultimate Edition
or
➤ MicrosoftVisualBasic2010 Team ... Form 574
Summary 579
CHAPTER 19: VISUALBASIC2010 AND XML 583
Understanding XML 583
What Does XML Look Like? 585
XML forVisualBasic Newcomers 586
The Rules 5 87
The Address Book Project 5 87
Creating ... build your skills for web and Windows programming,
Windows forms, and data access.
Professional VisualBasic2010 and .NET 4
ISBN: 978 -0- 470 -50224-2
If you’ve already covered the basics and want...
... can store is as follows:
1x128 + 1x64 + 1x32 + 1x16 + 1x8 + 1x4 + 1x2 + 1x1 = 255
A 32 -bit number can represent any value between –2,1 47, 483 ,648 and 2,1 47, 483,6 47. Now, if you
define a variable like
Dim ... locale,
the date is in dd/mm/yyyy format and the time is displayed using the 24-hour clock — for example,
07/ 08/2004 07: 02: 47.
Although you can control the date format to the nth degree, it’s best ... the date in the format
dd/mm/yyyy. This is because you could enter a date in the format dd/mm/yyyy (for example, 06/ 07 /2010)
that is also a valid date in the required mm/dd/yyyy format. This requirement...
... fordownload at Wrox.com
In this Try It Out, you learn to use constants.
1. Create a new Windows Forms application in Visual Studio 2010 called Constants Demo.
FIGURE 5-11
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2. When the Forms ... ready for work
➤ Traveling to work
➤ At work
➤ At lunch
➤ Traveling from work
➤ Relaxing with friends
➤ Getting ready for bed
1. Create a new Windows Forms application in Visual Studio 2010 called ... pressing Ctrl and the arrows for
larger movements.
2. Open the Code Editor for Form1 and add the member bolded here to the top of the class
definition:
Public Class Form1
‘Form level members
Private...
... here.
Visual Studio 2010 has some neat features for making form design easier. One thing that was always labo-
rious in previous versions of VisualBasic and Visual C++ was creating a form that ... Project from the Visual Studio 2010 menu and create a new Windows Forms
Application project. Enter the project name Windows Forms Word Counter andclickOK.
2. Click Form1 in the Forms Designer and ... this
form design capability has been brought to all of the managed languages — as Windows Forms
in Windows Forms applications and as Windows in WPF applications. You’ve been using
Windows Forms...
... the
C:\Program
Files \Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\VS2010ImageLibrary\1033\VS2010ImageLibrary\
Actions\pngformat
folder. This path assumes a default installation of Visual Studio 2010 and
that ... Creating Menus
Code file Windows Forms Menus.zip available fordownload at Wrox.com
In the first example, you will learn how to create menus and submenus.
1. Start Visual Studio 2010 and click File ... select Windows
Forms Application in the Templates pane and enter the project name Windows Forms Menus in
the Name field. Click the OK button to have the project created.
2. Click the form in the Forms...
... it to perform certain behaviors. In previous chapters
you created methods that instructed an object — in most cases a form — to do something. When you
create a form in VisualBasic 2010, you ... the object is responsible for reacting to the
request; you don’t care about the technical hoops it has to go through to do that.
Events
In VisualBasic2010 you listen for events to determine when ...
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Namespace
definition. By default, classes created in VisualBasic2010 are automatically assigned to a
root namespace. Visual Studio 2010 automatically names this root namespace based on the...
... available fordownload at Wrox.com
In this example, you will add a new project
1. Using Visual Studio 2010, select File ➪ Add ➪ New Project from the menu and create a new Visual
Basic2010Windows Forms ... menu select All Programs ➪ Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010
➪ Visual Studio Tools ➪ Visual Studio 2010 Command Prompt.
NOTE If you are running on Windows Vista or Windows 7, you will most likely
need ... to
C:\Program
Files \Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\VS2010ImageLibrary\1033\VS2010ImageLibrary\
Objects\ico_format\WinVista\Favorites.ico
.
4. Next, open the Code Editor for Form1. In the Class...
... the Continue button.
7. In the Add Connection dialog box, click the Browse button and navigate to the samples folder for
Microsoft office. For 20 07, the database is where you downloaded it. By default, ... have spaces in them?
5. In Visual Studio 2010, what control can you use to navigate through data in a Windows Forms
Application?
6. What is the terminating character for a SQL command you must ... in Figure 15 -7 was generated.
FIGURE 15-8
The next section discusses the basic data access components that are needed in
Windows Forms to display data. Since you have been using Microsoft Access...
... basic understanding of thin-client architecture, let’s look at how Web Forms
work.
WEB FORMS VERSUS WINDOWS FORMS
In this section, you will get an overview of the advantages of both Windows Forms ... of a bottleneck for the user.
Web Forms Advantages
Although the advantages of Web Forms may seem to be greater than the advantages of Windows
Forms, don’t permit this to transform you into a ... options for every project. Now, let’s look more closely at Web Forms development.
WEB APPLICATIONS: THE BASIC PIECES
In its simplest form, a web application is just a number of web pages. In order for...
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➤ Customization
➤ Windows Form Designer
➤ WPF Designer
➤ VisualBasic Code Editor
➤ Debugging
➤ Selecting Windows Forms Controls
➤ Using Windows Forms Controls
➤ Windows Forms
➤ Selecting WPF ... everything
from news on moving from VisualBasic 2008 to VisualBasic 2010, to listings of up and coming con-
ferences worldwide. Although you can do a search forVisualBasic 2010, the number of sites ... Publishing 2010
➤ Visual Studio 2010
➤ Objects and Visual Basic
➤ Custom Objects
➤ Common Language Runtime
➤ Declarative Programming with Visual Basic
➤ Exception Handling and Debugging
➤ TDD with Visual...
... to use Visual Studio 2010 and VisualBasic2010 to design
rich Windows and web applications. We’ll start with the visual tools and then we’ll explore
Visual Basic and the Framework. A Windows ... 1
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Visual Basic: The Language 1
Chapter 1
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Getting Started with VisualBasic2010 3
Chapter 2
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Handling Data 37
Chapter 3
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Visual Basic Programming Essentials 85
Part 2
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Developing Windows ... Data-Bound Applications 76 9
Working with Typed DataSets 76 9
Generating a Typed DataSet 77 0
Exploring the Typed DataSet 77 4
Data Binding 77 8
Using the BindingSource Class 78 1
Designing Data-Driven...