[...]... The Bottom Line Chapter 7 • 15 9 16 4 16 6 16 8 17 1 17 3 17 4 17 6 17 9 18 0 18 1 18 1 18 8 19 0 19 5 19 6 19 7 200 200 203 205 210 210 213 214 Working with Forms 217 The Appearance of Forms Properties of the Form Object ... 5 • 12 3 12 4 12 5 12 6 12 9 13 3 13 7 13 7 13 9 14 5 14 7 14 9 The Vista Interface 15 1 Introducing XAML Introducing the WPF Controls Simple ‘‘Hello World’’ WPF Application Simple Drawing Program 15 1 15 3 15 4 15 6 CONTENTS... 5 91 Chapter 17 • Querying Collections and XML with LINQ 6 21 Chapter 18 • Drawing and Painting with Visual Basic 2008 649 Chapter 19 • Manipulating Images and Bitmaps 693 Chapter 20 • Printing with Visual Basic 2008 717 xiv CONTENTS AT A GLANCE Chapter 21 • Basic Concepts of Relational... many articles and more than 10 programming books, including the best-selling titles Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 and Mastering Visual Basic NET Database Programming, both published by Sybex Contents at a Glance Introduction xxix Chapter 1 • Getting Started with Visual Basic 2008 1 Chapter 2 • Variables and... 10 7 Custom Functions 10 9 Passing Arguments and Returning Values 11 1 More Types of Function Return Values 11 3 Overloading Functions 11 7 The Bottom Line 12 1 Chapter 4 • GUI... Postback The Bottom Line Chapter 26 • 912 913 916 918 918 918 919 922 922 924 924 925 925 926 926 928 928 929 930 9 31 9 31 9 31 9 31 932 932 934 934 935 935 ASP.NET 3.5 937 Planning the Demonstration Site Getting... The Bottom Line 499 499 502 506 509 509 509 510 513 515 515 516 518 523 524 527 528 528 5 31 537 539 CONTENTS Chapter 15 • Accessing Folders and Files 5 41 The IO Namespace and the FileSystem Component Using the My.Computer.FileSystem Component ... The Bottom Line Chapter 17 • 5 41 542 546 547 554 560 564 566 569 570 580 585 585 586 587 589 5 91 592 592 594 595 596 598 6 01 607 608 609 613 615 615 617 620 Querying Collections and XML with LINQ 6 21 What Is LINQ? LINQ Components ... Project The Bottom Line Chapter 20 • 649 652 654 663 667 6 81 685 687 690 6 91 6 91 693 694 695 699 699 699 702 705 706 708 710 715 Printing with Visual Basic 2008 717 The Printing Components The PrintDocument Control ... Chapter 11 • Working with Objects 395 Chapter 12 • Building Custom Windows Controls 429 Chapter 13 • Handling Strings, Characters, and Dates 4 61 Chapter 14 • Storing Data in Collections 499 Chapter 15 • Accessing Folders and Files 5 41 Chapter 16 • Serialization . - 01/ 28 /2008 6:03pm Page i Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2008 Petroutsos ffirs.tex V3 - 01/ 28 /2008 6:03pm Page ii Petroutsos ffirs.tex V3 - 01/ 28 /2008 6:03pm Page iii Mastering Microsoft Visual. Data Petroutsos, Evangelos. Mastering Microsoft Visual basic 2008 / Evangelos Petroutsos. — 1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-470 -18 742-5 (paper/website) 1. Microsoft Visual BASIC. 2. BASIC (Computer program. fauth.tex V3 - 01/ 28 /2008 6 :11 pm Page xii Petroutsos ftoc.tex V2 - 01/ 28 /2008 6 :12 pm Page xiii Contents at a Glance Introduction xxix Chapter 1 • Getting Started with Visual Basic 2008 1 Chapter 2 • Variables