Complete Visual Basic .NET Training Course, Student Edition, The, 2nd Edition

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Features

The Multimedia Cyber Classroom CD-ROM is Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP compatible and includes these features that further enhance the features in the corresponding How to Program book:

• The full text, illustrations and program listings of Visual Basic .NET How to Program, Second Edition book with full-text searching and hyperlinking.

• Hours of detailed, expert audio descriptions of thousands of lines of code that help to reinforce concepts

  • Allows students to execute this code to study a program's output and relate it to the program's source code. Students can also save the code to their hard drive to modify it and use as the basis for their own programs.

• An abundance of self-assessment material—Practice exams that offer students hundreds of short-answer test questions and answers; Hundreds of self-review questions that are drawn from the text, all with answers; and Hundreds of programming exercises that are drawn from the text, half with answers (the main text does not provide any answers to these exercises).

• Intuitive browser-based interface—Designed to be easy and accessible for anyone who's ever used a Web browser.

• Thoroughly re-written content to reflect the new features and functionality of Visual Basic .NET.

  • Provides readers with up-to-date coverage of topics such as multi-tier Web-based application development using Web forms and Web services, data manipulation using the Extensible Markup Language (XML), object-oriented programming including implementation inheritance, multithreading, exception handling, database manipulation using ADO+, graphics programming with GDI+ and accessibility.

• Signature LIVE-CODE™Approach—Language features are presented in the context of a wide variety of complete working programs. Features thousands of lines of code in hundreds of complete working programs.

  • Enables students to confirm that programs run as expected. Students can also manipulate the code from the CD-ROM in the back of the book, from the book's Companion Website (www.prenhall.com/deitel), or from the authors' Website (www.deitel.com).

• Outstanding, consistent and applied pedagogy—Icons throughout identify Software Engineering Observations, Good Programming Practices, Common Programming Errors, Portability Tips, Performance Tips, Testing and Debugging Tips, and Look-and-Feel Observations.

  • Provides hundreds of valuable programming tips to reinforce good habits and to facilitate learning.

• Extensive set of interesting exercises and substantial projects.

  • Lets students apply what they've learned in each chapter.

• Four-way syntax coloring—With the use of two colors and shading.

  • Helps students better understand the book's hundreds of programs.

Description

This Complete Training Course includes the Visual Basic.Net How to Program, Second Edition text and the Multimedia Cyber Classroom, an electronic version of the text that provides additional hands-on experience ands study aids for a minimal extra cost. It includes many hours of detailed expert audio descriptions of "live code", practice exams with short answer questions and answers, hundreds of self-review questions drawn from the text (all with answers), hundreds of programming exercises drawn from the text (half with answers; the main text does not have answers to those problems), and full-text searching and hyperlinking. yperlinking.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

 1. Introduction to Computers, Internet, World Wide Web and VB. NET.


 2. Introduction to the Visual Studio .NET IDE.


 3. Introduction to VB Programming.


 4. Control Structures: Part 1.


 5. Control Structures: Part 2.


 6. Methods.


 7. Arrays.


 8. Object-Based Programming.


 9. Object-Oriented Programming, Part 1.


10. Object-Oriented Programming, Part 2.


11. Exception Handling.


12. Graphical User Interfaces: Part 1.


13. Graphical User Interfaces: Part 2.


14. Multithreading.


15. Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions.


16. Graphics and Multimedia.


17. Files and Streams.


18. Extensible Markup Language (XML).


19. Database, SQL and ADO .NET.


20. Web Forms and ASP .NET.


21. Web Services and ASP .NET.


22. Networking.


23. Security.


24. Data Structures.


25. Accessibility.


26. Microsoft .NET Mobile Internet Toolkit.


Appendix A. Operator Precedence Chart.


Appendix B. ASCII Character Set.


Appendix C. Number Systems.


Appendix D. Career Opportunities.


Appendix E. Visual Studio .NET Debugger.


Appendix F. Unicode®.


Appendix G. COM Integration.

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