Visual Basic .Net for Experienced Programmers (Deitel Developer Series) - Softcover

Deitel, Harvey M.; Deitel, Paul J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130461318 ISBN 13: 9780130461315

Publisher: Pearson P T R, 2002

Synopsis

The experienced programmer's Deitel Live-Code guide to Visual Basic .NET and the powerful Microsoft .NET Framework

Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers is written for programmerswith backgrounds in C++, Visual Basic 6, Java or other high-level languages,who want to learn Visual Basic .NET through the intermediate level. If youalready own Visual Basic .NET How To Program, 2/e, you should not purchaseVisual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers. However, you may beinterested in our ASP .NET with Visual Basic .NET for ExperiencedProgrammers, which will be published in Spring 2003. Students should notpurchase Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers. Instead, studentsshould purchase Visual Basic .NET How To Program, 2/e, as it containsself-review exercises and other ancillary materials suitable for self-studyand classroom use. We also recommend that everyone consider The CompleteVisual Basic .NET Training Course, 2/e, which includes Visual Basic .NET Howto Program, 2/e, and the Visual Basic .NET Cyber Classroom--an interactive,multimedia,Windows-based CD-ROM. The Complete Training Course offers a great value andprovides apowerful learning tool for readers who want to pursue Visual Basic .NETprogramming through the intermediate level.

Written for programmers with backgrounds in C++, Visual Basic , Java or other high-level languages, this book applies the Deitels' signature Live-Code approach to teaching programming and explores Microsoft's Visual Basic .NET language in depth. Visual Basic .NET concepts are presented in the context of fully-tested programs, complete with syntax highlighting, detailed line-by-line descriptions and program outputs. The book features 192 Live-Code programs that contain 20,337 lines of proven Visual Basic .NET program code. In addition, the book includes 319 programming tips that help you build applications that are portable, reusable and optimized for performance.

Start with condensed discussions of the Visual Studio .NET IDE, control structures, procedures and arrays. Then move rapidly to more advanced topics, including Windows Forms, ADO .NET, ASP .NET, ASP .NET Web services, network programming and XML processing. Along the way you will enjoy the Deitels' classic treatment of object-based and object-oriented programming. When you are finished, you will have everything you need to build next-generation Windows applications, Web applications and XML Web services.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel are the founders of Deitel & Associates, Inc., the internationally recognized IT content-creation and corporate-training organization. Together with their colleagues at Deitel & Associates, Inc., they have written the successful How to Program Series college textbooks that hundreds of thousands of students throughout the world have used to master Visual Basic .NET, C#, C, C++, Java, Perl, Python, XML and other languages.The Deitel Developer Series is designed for practicing programmers. The series presents focused treatments of emerging technologies, including .NET, J2EE, Web services and more. Each book in the series contains the same Live-Code teaching methodology used so successfully in the Deitels' How to Program Series college textbooks. The series includes a broad selection of books suitable for three types of readers:

A Technical Introduction Broad overviews of new technologies for programmers, technical managers and other technical professionals A Programmer's Introduction Focused treatments of programming fundamentals for practicing programmers and for novices For Experienced Programmers Detailed treatments of language topics for experienced programmers

DEITEL TESTIMONIALS

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—Mary Prince

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About this title

About the Author

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 41 years' experience in the computing field, including extensive industry and academic experience. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He worked on the pioneering virtual-memory operating-systems projects at IBM and MIT that developed techniques now widely implemented in systems such as Unix, Linux? and Windows XP. He has 20 years of college teaching experience, including earning tenure and serving as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., with his son, Paul J. Deitel. He is the author or co-author of several dozen books and multimedia packages and is writing many more. With translations published in Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, French, Polish, Italian, Portuguese and Greek, Dr. Deitel's texts have earned international recognition. Dr. Deitel has delivered professional seminars to major corporations, and to government organizations and various branches of the military.

Paul J. Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, where he studied Information Technology. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered Java, C, C++ and Internet and World Wide Web programming courses to industry clients including Compaq, Sun Microsystems, White Sands Missile Range, Rogue Wave Software, Boeing, Dell, Stratus, Fidelity, Cambridge Technology Partners, Open Environment Corporation, One Wave, Hyperion Software, Lucent Technologies, Adra Systems, Entergy, CableData Systems, NASA at the Kennedy Space Center, the National Severe Storms Laboratory, IBM and many other organizations. He has lectured on C++ and Java for the Boston Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery and has taught satellite-based Java courses through a cooperative venture of Deitel & Associates, Inc., Prentice Hall and the Technology Education Network. He and his father, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are the world's best-selling programming language textbook authors.

Tem R. Nieto, Director of Product Development of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied engineering and computing. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered courses for industry clients including Sun Microsystems, Compaq, EMC, Stratus, Fidelity, NASDAQ, Art Technology, Progress Software, Toys "R" Us, Operational Support Facility of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Nynex, Motorola, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Banyan, Schlumberger, University of Notre Dame, NASA, Hewlett-Packard, various military installations and many others. He has co-authored numerous books and multimedia packages with the Deitels and has contributed to virtually every Deitel & Associates, Inc., publication.

Cheryl H. Yaeger, Director of Microsoft Software Publications with Deitel & Associates, Inc., graduated from Boston University in three years with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Cheryl has co-authored various Deitel & Associates publications, including C# How to Program, C# A Programmer's Introduction, C# for Experienced Programmers and Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers as well as contributed to other Deitel publications including Perl How to Program, Wireless Internet & Mobile Business How to Program, Internet and World Wide Web How to Program, Second Edition and Visual Basic .NET How to Program, Second Edition.

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Deitel & Associates, Inc., is an internationally recognized corporate instructor-led training and content-creation organization specializing in Internet/World Wide Web software technology, e-business/e-commerce software technology, object technology and computer programming languages education. The company provides courses in Internet and World Wide Web programming, wireless Internet programming, Web services (in both Java and .NET languages), object technology, and major programming languages and platforms, such as Visual Basic .NET, C#, Visual C++ .NET, Java, Advanced Java, C, C++, XML, Perl, Python, ASP .NET, ADO .NET and more. Deitel & Associates, Inc., was founded by Dr. Harvey M. Deitel and Paul J. Deitel, the world's leading programming-language textbook authors. The company's clients include many of the largest computer companies, government agencies, branches of the military and business organizations. Through its 25-year publishing partnership with Prentice Hall, Deitel & Associates, Inc., publishes leading-edge programming textbooks, professional books, interactive CD-ROM-based multimedia Cyber Classrooms, Complete Training Courses, e-books, e-matter, Web-based training courses and course management systems e-content. Deitel & Associates, Inc., and the authors can be reached via e-mail at:

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Preface

Live in fragments no longer. Only connect.

—Edward Morgan Forster

We wove a web in childhood,
A web of sunny air.

—Charlotte Bronte

Welcome to Visual Basic .NET and the world of Windows, Internet, and World Wide Web programming with Visual Studio .NET and the .NET platform! This book is the third in the new Deitel Developer Series, which presents leading-edge computing technologies to software developers and IT professionals.

Visual Basic .NET was created from Visual Basic 6.0 by Microsoft expressly for its .NET platform. Visual Basic .NET provides the features that are most important to programmers, such as object-oriented programming, graphics, graphical-user-interface (GUI) components, exception handling, multithreading, multimedia (audio, images, animation and video), file processing, prepackaged data structures, database processing, Internet and World-Wide-Web-based multi-tier application development, networking, Web services and distributed computing. The language is appropriate for implementing Internet- and World-Wide-Web-based applications that integrate seamlessly with Windows-based applications.

The .NET platform offers powerful capabilities for software development and deployment, including language and platform independence. For example, developers writing code in any (or several) of the .NET languages (such as Visual Basic .NET, C# and Visual C++ .NET) can contribute components to the same software product. In addition to providing language independence, .NET extends program portability by enabling .NET applications to reside on, and communicate across, multiple platforms. This facilitates the creation and use of Web services, which are applications that expose functionality to clients over the Internet.

The .NET platform enables Web-based applications to be distributed to consumer-electronic devices, such as wireless phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), as well as to desktop computers. The capabilities that Microsoft has incorporated into the .NET platform increase programmer productivity and decrease development time.

Who Should Read This Book

Deitel & Associates, Inc. currently has two Visual Basic .NET publications, intended for different audiences. We provide information on www.deitel.com, here and inside this book's back cover to help you determine which publication is best for you.

Our first Visual Basic .NET book, Visual Basic .NET How to Program, Second Edition, was published as part of our How to Program Series, for college and university students. It provides a comprehensive treatment of Visual Basic .NET and includes learning aids and extensive ancillary support. Visual Basic .NET How to Program, Second Edition assumes that the reader has little or no programming experience. Early chapters focus on fundamental programming principles. The book builds on this to create increasingly complex and sophisticated programs that demonstrate how to use Visual Basic .NET to create graphical user interfaces, networking applications, multithreaded applications, Web-based applications and more. We encourage professors and professionals to consider the The Complete Visual Basic .NET Training Course. This package includes Visual Basic .NET How to Program, Second Edition, as well as the Visual Basic .NET Multimedia Cyber Classroom, Second Edition, an interactive multimedia CD-ROM that provides extensive e-Learning features. The Complete Visual Basic .NET Training Course, Second Edition and Visual Basic .NET Multimedia Cyber Classroom, Second Edition are discussed in detail later in this Preface.

This book, Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers, is part of the new Deitel Developer Series, intended for professional software developers-from novices through experienced programmers. This publication is a part of the For Experienced Programmers subseries, designed for the experienced software developer who wants a deep treatment of a new technology with minimal, if any, introductory material. Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers provides a brief introduction to programming principles in general and to Visual Basic .NET fundamentals, then delves deeply into more sophisticated topics, such as Web development and distributed computing. There is considerable overlap between this book and Visual Basic .NET How to Program, Second Edition.

A third publication, ASP .NET with Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers, is forthcoming. This book was originally titled Advanced Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers.

Each of our Visual Basic .NET books presents many complete, working Visual Basic .NET programs and depicts their inputs and outputs in actual screen shots of running programs. This is our signature Live-Code approach—we present concepts in the context of complete working programs. Each book's source code is available free for download at www.deitel.com.

Please examine both the Deitel Developer Series professional books and the How to Program Series textbooks to determine which best suits your needs. Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers is derived from Visual Basic .NET How to Program, Second Edition. Depending on your particular needs, you should purchase either this book or Visual Basic .NET How to Program, Second Edition.

This book was written after Visual Basic .NET How to Program, Second Edition. We added to this Deitel Developer Series book a chapter on the new Microsoft Mobile Internet Toolkit for our readers who wish to develop wireless Internet applications for wireless phones, pagers and PDAs. This material will be added to the third edition of Visual Basic .NET How to Program.

For a detailed listing of Deitel products and services, please see the "advertorial" pages at the back of this book and visit www.deitel.com. Readers may also want to register for our new Deitel? Buzz Online e-mail newsletter (www.deitel.net/newsletter/subscribe.html), which provides information about our publications, company announcements, links to informative technical articles, programming tips, teaching tips, challenges and anecdotes.

As you proceed, if you would like to communicate with us, please send an e-mail to deitel@deitel.com-we always respond promptly. Please check our Web sites, www.deitel.com, www.prenhall.com/deitel and www.InformIT.com/deitel for frequent updates, errata, FAQs, etc. When sending an e-mail, please include the book's title and edition number. We sincerely hope that you enjoy learning Visual Basic .NET with our publications.

Features of Visual Basic .NET for Experienced Programmers

This edition contains many features, including:

• Syntax Highlighting. This book uses five-way syntax highlighting to emphasize Visual Basic .NET programming elements in a manner similar to that of Visual Studio .NET. Our syntax-highlighting conventions are as follows:
  • comments
  • keywords
  • literal values
  • errors and ASP .NET directives
  • text, class, method and variable names
• "Code Washing." This is our term for the process we use to format the book's programs so that they have a carefully commented, open layout. The code is grouped into small, well-documented pieces. This greatly improves code readability-an especially important goal for us, considering that this book contains approximately 20,300 lines of code in 192 complete Live-Code programs.
• Web Forms, Web Controls, and ASP .NET. The .NET platform enables developers to create robust, scalable Web-based applications. Microsoft's .NET server-side technology, Active Server Pages (ASP) .NET, allows programmers to build Web documents that respond to client requests. To enable interactive Web pages, server-side programs process information users input into HTML forms. ASP .NET is a significant departure from ASP 3.0, allowing developers to program Web-based applications using .NET's powerful object-oriented languages such as Visual Basic .NET and C#, rather than using only scripting languages. ASP .NET also provides enhanced visual programming capabilities, similar to those used in building Windows forms for desktop programs. Programmers can create Web pages visually, by dragging and dropping Web controls onto Web forms. Chapter 17, ASP .NET, Web Forms and Web Controls, introduces these powerful technologies.
• Web Services and ASP .NET. Microsoft's .NET strategy embraces the Internet and Web as integral to software development and deployment. Web services technology enables information sharing, e-commerce and other interactions using standard Internet protocols and technologies, such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Web services enable programmers to package application functionality in a manner that turns the Web into a library of reusable software components. In Chapter 18, ASP .NET and Web Services, we present a Web service that allows users to manipulate "huge integers"-integers too large to be contained in Visual Basic .NET's built-in data types. In this example, a user enters two huge integers and presses buttons to invoke Web services that add, subtract and compare the two integers.
• Object-Oriented Programming. Object-oriented programming is the most widely employed technique for developing robust, reusable software. This text offers a rich treatment of Visual Basic .NET's object-oriented programming features. Chapter 5, Object-Based Programming, introduces how to create classes and objects. These concepts are extended in Chapter 6, Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance, which discusses how programmers can create powerful new classes quickly by "absorbing" the capabilities of existing classes. Chapter 7, Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism, familiarizes the reader with the...

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson P T R
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0130461318
• ISBN 13: 9780130461315
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 800