James Foxall

Visual Basic 2015 in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself

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Produktbeschreibung

Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic in 24 Hours is perfect for students new to programming, as well as those moving from another language to Visual Basic. It focuses on programming principles. Throughout this book, students will learn to build an application - a Picture Viewer, complete with file browsing, printing, basic graphics drawing, menus, toolbars, and more.

Produktdetails

• Sams Teach Yourself
• Verlag: Sams
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 177mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 950g
• ISBN-13: 9780672337451
• ISBN-10: 0672337452
• Artikelnr.: 42587887

Autorenporträt

James Foxall is President & CEO of Tigerpaw Software, a commercial software company providing complete business automation to more than 40,000 users in 28 countries in the IT/Networking, Telecommunications, Systems Integrator, Security, and Point of Sale industries. In his current role as President and CEO, James provides the vision and management to keep Tigerpaw focused on its customers and properly serving its markets.   James has a Masters degree in Business Administration and a BS degree in Management of Information Systems. Devoted to creating better businesses through technology, James has written 15 books, which have been published in over a dozen languages around the world. He is considered an authority on business process improvement and application interface and behavior standards of Windows applications, and serves the business community as an international speaker on automating business processes in the SMB environment.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Part I: The Visual Basic 2015 Environment
Hour 1: Jumping in with Both Feet: A Visual Basic 2015 Programming Tour . 1
    Starting Visual Basic 2015 . . . . . . . . . . 2
    Creating a New Project . . . . . . . . . . 3
    Understanding the Visual Studio 2015 Environment . . . . . 6
    Changing the Characteristics of Objects . . . . . . . 7
    Adding Controls to a Form. . . . . . . . . 13
    Designing an Interface . . . . . . . . . . 15
    Writing the Code Behind an Interface. . . . . . . 20
    Running a Project . . . . . . . . . . . 24
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 28
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Hour 2: Navigating Visual Basic 2015 . . . . . . . . 31
    Using the Visual Basic 2015 Start Page . . . . . . . 31
    Navigating and Customizing the Visual Basic Environment . . . 34
    Working with Toolbars . . . . . . . . . . 40
    Adding Controls to a Form Using the Toolbox . . . . . . 41
    Setting Object Properties Using the Properties Window . . . . 43
    Managing Projects . . . . . . . . . . . 50
    A Quick-and-Dirty Programming Primer. . . . . . . 57
    Getting Help. . . . . . . . . . . . 59
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 61
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Hour 3: Understanding Objects and Collections . . . . . . 63
    Understanding Objects . . . . . . . . . . 64
    Understanding Properties. . . . . . . . . . 64
    Understanding Methods. . . . . . . . . . 72
    Building a Simple Object Example Project . . . . . . . 73
    Understanding Collections . . . . . . . . . 79
    Using the Object Browser . . . . . . . . . . 82
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 85
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Hour 4: Understanding Events . . . . . . . . . . 87
    Understanding Event-Driven Programming . . . . . . 87
    Building an Event Example Project . . . . . . . . 97
    Keeping Event Names Current . . . . . . . . 103
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 104
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Part II: Building a User Interface
Hour 5: Building Forms: The Basics . . . . . . . . 107
    Changing a Form’s Name . . . . . . . . . 108
    Changing a Form’s Appearance . . . . . . . . 109
    Showing and Hiding Forms . . . . . . . . . 122
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 129
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Hour 6: Building Forms: Advanced Techniques . . . . . . 131
    Working with Controls . . . . . . . . . . 131
    Creating Topmost Nonmodal Windows. . . . . . . 151
    Creating Transparent Forms . . . . . . . . . 151
    Creating Scrollable Forms . . . . . . . . . 152
    Creating MDI Forms . . . . . . . . . . 154
    Setting the Startup Form . . . . . . . . . 158
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 160
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Hour 7: Working with Traditional Controls . . . . . . . 163
    Displaying Static Text with the Label Control. . . . . . 163
    Allowing Users to Enter Text Using a Text Box. . . . . . 164
    Creating Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . 172
    Creating Containers and Groups of Option Buttons . . . . . 176
    Displaying a List with the List Box . . . . . . . . 180
    Creating Drop-Down Lists Using the Combo Box . . . . . 188
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 191
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 192
Hour 8: Using Advanced Controls. . . . . . . . . 193
    Creating Timers . . . . . . . . . . . 193
    Creating Tabbed Dialog Boxes . . . . . . . . 197
    Storing Pictures in an Image List Control . . . . . . 200
    Building Enhanced Lists Using the List View Control . . . . 202
    Creating Hierarchical Lists Using the Tree View Control . . . . 207
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 212
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Hour 9: Adding Menus and Toolbars to Forms . . . . . . 215
    Building Menus . . . . . . . . . . . 215
    Using the Toolbar Control . . . . . . . . . 229
    Creating a Status Bar . . . . . . . . . . 235
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 238
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Part III: Making Things Happen—Programming
Hour 10: Creating and Calling Code Procedures . . . . . . 239
    Creating Visual Basic Code Modules . . . . . . . 239
    Writing Code Procedures . . . . . . . . . 242
    Calling Code Procedures . . . . . . . . . 248
    Exiting Procedures. . . . . . . . . . . 254
    Avoiding Infinite Recursion . . . . . . . . . 255
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 257
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Hour 11: Using Constants, Data Types, Variables, and Arrays . . . . 259
    Understanding Data Types. . . . . . . . . 260
    Defining and Using Constants . . . . . . . . 263
    Declaring and Referencing Variables . . . . . . . 266
    Working with Arrays . . . . . . . . . . 273
    Determining Scope . . . . . . . . . . 276
    Declaring Variables of Static Scope . . . . . . . . 281
    Using Variables in Your Picture Viewer Project. . . . . . 282
    Renaming Variables . . . . . . . . . . 286
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 288
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Hour 12: Performing Arithmetic, String Manipulation, and Date/Time
Adjustments . .. 291
    Performing Basic Arithmetic Operations with Visual Basic . . . 291
    Comparing Equalities . . . . . . . . . . 295
    Understanding Boolean Logic. . . . . . . . . 296
    Manipulating Strings. . . . . . . . . . 298
    Working with Dates and Times . . . . . . . . 304
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 310
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Hour 13: Making Decisions in Visual Basic Code . . . . . . 313
    Making Decisions Using If...Then. . . . . . . 313
    Branching Within a Procedure Using GoTo . . . . . . 324
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 327
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 328
Hour 14: Looping for Efficiency . . . . . . . . . 329
    Looping a Specific Number of Times Using For...Next . . . . 329
    Using Do...Loop to Loop an Indeterminate Number of Times . . . 336
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 342
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Hour 15: Debugging Your Code . . . . . . . . . 343
    Adding Comments to Your Code . . . . . . . . 344
    Identifying the Two Basic Types of Errors . . . . . . 346
    Using Visual Basic’s Debugging Tools . . . . . . . 349
    Breaking Only When a Condition Is Met. . . . . . . 358
    Breaking Only When a Breakpoint Is Hit a Certain Number of Times . 359
    Sending Messages to the Output Window Using Tracepoints. . . 360
    Writing an Error Handler Using Try...Catch...Finally . . . 360
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 368
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 369
Hour 16: Designing Objects Using Classes . . . . . . . 371
    Understanding Classes. . . . . . . . . . 372
    Instantiating Objects from Classes . . . . . . . . 381
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 388
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Hour 17: Interacting with Users . . . . . . . . . 391
    Displaying Messages Using the MessageBox.Show() Function. . . 391
    Creating Custom Dialog Boxes. . . . . . . . 398
    Using InputBox() to Get Information from a User . . . . . 401
    Interacting with the Keyboard . . . . . . . . 404
    Using the Common Mouse Events . . . . . . . . 406
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 410
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Hour 18: Working with Graphics . . . . . . . . . 413
    Understanding the Graphics Object . . . . . . . 413
    Working with Pens . . . . . . . . . . 416
    Using System Colors . . . . . . . . . . 417
    Working with Rectangles . . . . . . . . . 421
    Drawing Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . 422
    Drawing Text . . . . . . . . . . . 423
    Persisting Graphics on a Form . . . . . . . . 425
    Building a Graphics Project Example . . . . . . . 425
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 432
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 432
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 433
Part IV: Working with Data
Hour 19: Performing File Operations . . . . . . . . 435
    Using the OpenFileDialog and SaveFileDialog Controls . . . 435
    Manipulating Files with the File Object. . . . . . . 443
    Manipulating Directories with the Directory Object . . . . 452
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 453
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 454
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 455
Hour 20: Working with the Registry and Text Files . . . . . . 457
    Working with the Registry . . . . . . . . . 457
    Reading and Writing Text Files . . . . . . . . 470
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 480
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 481
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 482
Hour 21: Working with a Database . . . . . . . . 483
    Introducing ADO.NET . . . . . . . . . . 484
    Manipulating Data . . . . . . . . . . 491
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 503
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 503
Hour 22: Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
    Preparing the Picture Viewer Project . . . . . . . 506
    Printing and Previewing a Document . . . . . . . 509
    Changing Printer and Page Settings . . . . . . . 519
    Scaling Images to Fit a Page . . . . . . . . . 522
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 527
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 528
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 528
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 528
Hour 23: Sending Emails. . . . . . . . . . 529
    Understanding the Classes Used to
    Send Emails . . . . . . . . . . . . 530
    Sending Email from Your Picture Viewer Application . . . . 530
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 543
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 544
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 544
Part V: Deploying Solutions and Beyond
Hour 24: Deploying Applications . . . . . . . . . 545
    Understanding ClickOnce Technology. . . . . . . 545
    Using the Publish Wizard to Create a ClickOnce Application . . . 547
    Testing Your Picture Viewer ClickOnce Install Program . . . . 552
    Uninstalling an Application You’ve Distributed . . . . . 553
    Setting Advanced Options for Creating ClickOnce Programs. . . 556
    Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
    Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
    Workshop. . . . . . . . . . . . 557
    Exercises. . . . . . . . . . . . 558
Appendix A: The 10,000-Foot View . . . . . . . . 559
TOC, 9780672337451, 7/19/2015