Introduction to Programming with Visual Basic.NET, An, 5th Edition

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Features

• NEW - Detailed instruction of Visual Basic .NET—Upgraded from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic .NET.

  • Explains to students the relevant new features of VB .NET, especially the incorporation of inheritance in objects.

• NEW - Updated CD for VB .NET—Contains programs from the text case studies, and data files.

  • Saves students time and the frustration of typing in programs. Allows instructors to quickly bring up an example or case study.

• NEW - Tightened chapters—Concentrates on topics that are essential for the beginning student.

  • Aids students with clear instructions and descriptions in a logical sequence, easily grasped by beginners.

• NEW - Visual studio .NET DVD—Contains a 60-day trial version of the professional edition of Visual Studio .NET.

• Extreme readability—Written to be student friendly.

  • Helps students learn the concepts of VB .NET quickly.

• Well-chosen examples—Illustrate each new concept.

  • Reinforces theory to students via real-life applications.

• Carefully designed exercise sets—Contains 150 examples and over 1,000 exercises, substantially more than competing books.

  • Allows students to find all the review and challenges they need.

• Practice problems—Carefully selected problems with solutions.

  • Focuses on potential trouble spots and provides a warm-up to the exercises.

• Minimum prerequisites—No prior programming experience necessary.

  • Allows beginning students to comfortably enter the world of computer programming by starting with the basics.

• Real, current, and sometimes humorous data.

  • Helps students stay focused on and interested in the examples and exercises.

• Appendices—Including a VB .NET Command Guide on the inside front cover.

  • Enables students to use the text for quick reference.

Description

"This book is an excellent introduction to programming using Visual Basic.NET. The examples start with basics and gradually develop to solve real-life problems." - Amit Kalani, CIStems Solutions LLC.

"Schneider's proven approach works as effectively with VB.NET as it does with Visual Basic 6.0; the use of a variety of short examples makes the concepts being presented clear and understandable. The end-of-chapter programming projects build on this base and lead to a thorough understanding of the context for these concepts." - Chris Panell, Heald College

Since its introduction in 1991, Visual Basic has become the tool of choice for developing user-friendly applications in today's business world. Easy to use and fun to learn, Visual Basic is the state of the art in Basic programming that allows you to take full control of Microsoft's best-selling Windows applications.

The latest incarnation of Visual Basic, called Visual Basic .NET, brings the language into the Internet age by incorporating the .NET framework. Students and developers alike are eagerly embracing the dynamic new features of the language and find Visual Basic.NET to be the ideal tool to understand the development of computer programs.

Written by best-selling author David I. Schneider, An Introduction to Visual Basic .NET assumes no prior programming experience and includes these important pedagogical features:

• Thoroughly explains the fundamentals of accurate, modern programming methodology using the elements of Windows' graphical user interface.
• Includes an entire chapter on database programming using ADO.NET and SQL.
• Presents object-oriented techniques throughout the book and culminates in a complete chapter devoted to OOP, including inheritance and polymorphism.
• Supplies many examples, projects, and exercises that students and professionals can appreciate.

The text also features a wealth of learning aids, including exercises, practice problems, programming projects, case studies, comments, summaries and detailed appendices.

Valuable supplements include:

• An Instructors' Resource CD containing solutions to all the exercises and programming projects, as well as a test item file.
• A companion website (http://www.prenhall.com/schneider) containing additional student assessment exercises with immediate feedback, PowerPoint slides in lecture format, source code for download and additional links and resources.
• An accompanying CD containing all examples and case studies from the book along with all the data files needed to work the exercises.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

(NOTE: A Summary and Programming Projects conclude Chapters 3 through 11.)

1. An Introduction to Computers and VB .NET.

An Introduction to VB .NET. Using Windows. Files and Folders. Biographical History of Computing.

Programming Development Cycle. Programming Tools.

VB .NET Controls. VB .NET Events. Numbers. Strings. Input and Output.

Subprograms, Part I. Subprograms, Part II. Functions. Modular Design.

Relational and Logical Operators. If Blocks. Select Case Blocks. A Case Study: Weekly Payroll.

Do Loops. Processing Lists of Data with Do Loops. For…Next Loops. A Case Study: Analyze a Loan.

Creating and Accessing Arrays. Using Arrays. Some Additional Types of Arrays. Sorting and Searching. Two-dimensional Arrays. A Case Study: Sophisticated Cash Register.

Sequential Files. Using Sequential Files. A Case Study: Recording Checks and Deposits.

List Boxes and Combo Boxes. Seven Elementary Controls. Four Additional Objects.

An Introduction to Databases. Relational Databases and SQL.

Objects and Classes. Arrays of Objects; Event; Containment. Inheritance.

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