... sample code Now it’s time to roll up your sleeves and embark on a full VisualBasic2008 project 74 | Chapter 2: Introducing VisualBasic Chapter CHAPTER Introducing the Project You’re sitting in your ... write VisualBasic programs; you may feel that a mild sedative would be right just about now But don’t fret This chapter served as an introduction to the syntax and major features of VisualBasic ... Figure 2-4) Figure 2-4 Snip, snip, snip Project | 71 From the snippet list, select ProgrammingVisualBasic 2008, and then select Chapter A list of the available snippet items for this chapter...
... today for free www.it-ebooks.info ProgrammingVisualBasic2008 Tim Patrick Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Köln • Sebastopol • Taipei • Tokyo www.it-ebooks.info ProgrammingVisualBasic2008 by ... About Visual Studio and Visual Basic? Visual Studio 2008 Summary Project 16 17 18 22 23 Introducing VisualBasic 30 The History of the VisualBasic ... the project code usingVisualBasic2008 Professional Edition Some portions may not be compatible with earlier NET versions of the language None of it is compatible with VisualBasic 6.0 or earlier,...
... look at both over the next four chapters Even within the Microsoft family of visual languages and even within VisualBasic itself, we will often confront issues Team-LRN ... SELECT * FROM IBM80s; Views can be deleted as well using the DROP keyword DROP VIEW IBM80s; Creating Tables As you know by now, database tables are the basic structure in which data is stored In the ... which are the simplest data structures and have fixed sizes, although they can be redimensioned Visual Basic. NET offers several other more dynamic data structures known as collection objects, which...
... Introduction VisualBasic2008 is Microsoft’s latest version of the highly popular VisualBasic NET programming language, one of the many languages supported in Visual Studio 2008VisualBasic2008 s ... process, Visual Studio 2008 is ready to use Now the real fun can begin! So get comfortable, relax, and enter the world of VisualBasic2008 The VisualBasic2008 IDE You don’t need VisualBasic2008 ... following: ❑ Microsoft VisualBasic2008 Express ❑ Microsoft VisualBasic2008 Profession Edition ❑ Microsoft VisualBasic2008 Team System As the later chapters cover more advanced subject areas,...
... in VisualBasic 6) retain the focus until the user clicks OK, clicks Cancel, or otherwise dispatches them To display an existing form as a dialog box in VisualBasic 2008, you open it by using ... "circus!") VisualBasic2008 features two methods for string concatenation and many other stringprocessing tasks: You can use operators and functions from earlier versions of VisualBasic (Mid, ... and then enter the code by using the VisualBasic Editor (If the Developer tab is not shown, you will need to enable it in the Word Options dialog box.) In the VisualBasic Editor, the completed...
... overloading These and other OOP features can be explored by using the Visual Studio documentation or by perusing an advanced book on VisualBasicprogramming (See the Appendix, “Where to Go for More ... might be wondering just how printing works in VisualBasic programs This is one area where VisualBasic2008 has improved considerably over VisualBasic 6, although the added functionality comes ... versions of VisualBasic Although Microsoft VisualBasic offers several object-oriented programming features, experts say that it lags behind the “true” OOP languages, such as Microsoft Visual C++,...
... Packs” for VisualBasic 2005 You’ll find them in the download area of Microsoft’s VisualBasic Development Center, located at http://msdn.microsoft.com/ vbasic As of this writing, 2008 editions ... would be weak, and VisualBasic programmers are anything but weak Normally, you specifically tell VisualBasic what data type to use for a variable But a new VisualBasic2008 feature called ... protect the innocent Table 6-5 lists the VisualBasic data types and their NET equivalents Table 6-5 VisualBasic data types and related NET types VisualBasic type NET type Boolean System.Boolean...
... Nature of Errors in VisualBasic You will deal with three major categories of errors in your VisualBasic applications: Compile-time errors Some errors are so blatant that VisualBasic will refuse ... understanding of VisualBasic and NET programming concepts, and regular use of the tools included with Visual Studio 2008, will help you quickly locate and eliminate them 262 | Chapter 9: Functional Programming ... is something new in Visual Basic, a similar feature has existed in the BASIC language for a long time I found an old manual from the very first programming language I used, BASIC PLUS on the RSTS/E...
... Overloading? | 331 Defining overloaded operators in VisualBasic2008 is somewhat similar If you were to translate the definition of multiplication into VisualBasic function-ese, it might look like this: ... and I are looking for simplicity in programming, and we plunked down good money for Visual Studio, so we’re certainly going to use its visual tools to edit our visual forms 318 | Chapter 11: Security ... humble VisualBasic addition operator (+) had dreams of flying, or of speaking Hungarian, or of bending steel Well, operators are people, too And now their dreams can be fulfilled because Visual Basic...
... improved settings system, first added to VisualBasic in 2005, seeks to change all that Settings in VisualBasic2008 The settings system in VisualBasic2008 is a multifile, XML-based, strongly ... paper cut 416 Traditional VisualBasic File Management VisualBasic has included significant file management features since its first release In fact, more features in VisualBasic deal with file ... migrating pre-.NET VisualBasic applications, use this table to help you locate full feature details in the technical documentation supplied with VisualBasic Table 15-1 VisualBasic features that...
... queries using the SQL Query Debug Visualizer tool It doesn’t come with Visual Studio, but you can download it from Microsoft’s MSDN web site Deferred Execution When you build a LINQ query, VisualBasic ... Model Designer, a visual drag-and-drop tool that makes creating entities as easy as creating VisualBasic forms Because the ADO.NET Entity Framework comes out after Visual Studio 2008, I will not ... displayed For instance, if you are viewing the details of an award-winning (one can hope) VisualBasic2008programming book and click on the publisher name for that item, the PanelItems panel appears,...
... find a Start-menu entry for it at Start ➝ [All] Programs ➝ Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 ➝ Visual Studio Tools ➝ Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt Manually Compiling Resources | 535 Resource File ... supports color If you used to be a VisualBasic 6.0 developer, you were accustomed to the convenient Printers collection The absence of that collection in VisualBasic2008 means that we must use more ... Options in NET Reporting involves displaying and printing basic or summarized data to the user for specific business purposes VisualBasic2008 Professional Edition includes six primary methods...
... much of the same functionality as the full Visual Studio product The tutorial included here was written usingVisual Studio 2008 Professional Edition Start Visual Studio and select the File ➝ New ... command in Visual Studio The main interface appears in Figure 22-2 Figure 22-2 It’s time to obfuscate! As of this writing, Dotfuscator Community Edition is not included with VisualBasic2008 Express ... Build your project in Visual Studio using the Build ➝ Build [Project Name] menu command Start Dotfuscator using the Tools ➝ Dotfuscator Community Edition menu command in Visual Studio Obfuscation...
... the useful content provided with ProgrammingVisualBasic2008 Acknowledgments The software was developed by Tim Patrick, author of ProgrammingVisualBasic2008 Tim Patrick and O’Reilly Media, ... it When prompted, save the download file to your system using the standard file download features of your browser You can save the file, named ProgrammingVisualBasic2008. exe, to a temporary ... time to read through ProgrammingVisualBasic2008 I wrote it so that you might expand your understanding and expertise of a very practical and enjoyable subject: VisualBasic And enjoyable is...
... either at design time using the property sheet, or at runtime using code Exporting Using the Report Document When you're exporting using the Report document, you will be using the ExportOptions ... export The View tab uses a CrystalReportViewer object on the tab page Steps Open and run the VisualBasic NET-Chapter 10 solution Click on the button labeled How-To 10.4 Clicking on the tabs, ... FormatOptions This gets or sets the FormatOptions It can be ExcelFormatOptions, HTMLFormatOptions, or PdfRtfWordFormatOptions To execute the export, you use the Export method of the DocumentReport object...
... left blank Programming in VisualBasic 2010 This book is an introduction to programmingusing Microsoft’s VisualBasic NET 2010 It is intended for novice programmers with little or no programming ... 1.3 Programming in VisualBasic 2010 VisualBasic File Menu clicking on the More Information button Feel free to look at them when you have time The Start Page opens every time you start Visual ... to 12 Figure 1.1 Programming in VisualBasic 2010 Starting VisualBasic make the program the calculation and another to end the program After that, the design is up to you VB Basics Starting/Ending...
... 195 What’s Next? 196 LINQ for Visual C# 2008 iii LINQ for Visual C# 2008 by Fabio Claudio Ferracchiati Over the past 20 years object-oriented programming languages have evolved to become ... Framework 3.5 that you can download at http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=7755937 You can speed up your application development time with LINQ usingVisual Studio 2008, which offers visual tools such as ... obtain a 90-day trial version of Visual Studio 2008 at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/enus/vstudio/products/aa700831.aspx Optionally, you can download the Visual C# 2008 Expression Edition tool at...
... details by clicking OK, or you can click Advanced to enter additional details such as the connection timeout, as shown in Figure 7.4 Figure 7.4: Entering the advanced connection details You can also...