... Introducing .NET
To use the sample Chapter 1 project, select the Programming VisualBasic2008 entry
within the VisualBasic project type, and then select Chapter 1 Sample from the Tem-
plates ... longer
enhance the core VisualBasic engine. Instead, it would rewrite and reimplement
Visual Basic using its soon-to-be-released .NET development platform. Yes, Visual
Basic would be endowed ... the editor sounded
the call to the VisualBasic faithful, urging them to never write a single line of Visual
Basic .NET code, ever. In frustration, a VisualBasic user’s group set fire to the...
... be trying to load VisualBasic2008 fi les into
the older VisualBasic .NET 2002, 2003, or 2005 software. (Earlier versions of VisualBasic
can’t open the VisualBasic2008projects included ... environment in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, you can use the same tools
to write programs for Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, Microsoft Visual C# 2008, Microsoft Visual
Web Developer 2008, and other third-party ... Started with Microsoft VisualBasic2008
Running a VisualBasic Program
Music Trivia is a simple VisualBasic program designed to familiarize you with the program-
ming tools in Visual Studio. The...
... build VisualBasic2008 programs, you will also need a copy of VisualBasic2008. Don ’ t bother
trying to run the examples shown here if you have a pre - .NET version of VisualBasic such as Visual ... Basic such as Visual
Basic 6. The changes between VisualBasic 6 and VisualBasic .NET are huge, and many VisualBasic
.NET concepts don ’ t translate well into VisualBasic 6. With some experience ... you use VisualBasic or C#?
A VisualBasic programmer ’ s joke asks, “ What ’ s the difference between VisualBasic .NET and C#?
About three months! ” The implication is that VisualBasic .NET...
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... 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 VisualBasic ... Introduction
VisualBasic2008 is Microsoft ’ s latest version of the highly popular VisualBasic .NET programming
language, one of the many languages supported in Visual Studio 2008.VisualBasic2008 ... and made VisualBasic .NET a very powerful development tool. This trend
has continued with the release of VisualBasic 2003, VisualBasic 2005, and the latest release, VisualBasic
2008. Each...
... supplied names.
3. VisualBasic2008 finds a Case statement that satisfies the request and immediately moves to
strFavoriteColor = “ Passionate Purple ” .
4. VisualBasic2008 moves to the ... statement at the end tells VisualBasic2008 that this method should
automatically be called when the
Click event on the button is fired. As part of this, VisualBasic2008
provides two parameters, ... processing code
that ’ s beneath a
Case statement, if you meet another Case statement, VisualBasic2008 jumps out of
the block and down to the line immediately following the block. Here ’...
... use a
VisualBrush . A
VisualBrush paints an area with a visual image, in this case the image of the credit card. The Visual
attribute shown in the following code is used to set the visual ...
< VisualBrush Visual= ”{Binding ElementName=Image1}” >
< VisualBrush.Transform >
< ScaleTransform CenterX=”300” CenterY=”100” ScaleX=”1”
ScaleY=”-1” / >
< /VisualBrush.Transform ...
< VisualBrush Visual= ”{Binding ElementName=Image1}” >
< VisualBrush.Transform >
< ScaleTransform CenterX=”300” CenterY=”100” ScaleX=”1”
ScaleY=”-1” / >
< /VisualBrush.Transform...
... benefits to software developers. This is mainly
because languages such as Visual Basic, C++, and, of course, VisualBasic2008 and C# have
matured to a point where they make creating objects and ... instructed an object — in most cases a form — to do something. When you create a
form in VisualBasic 2008, you are actually defining a new type of
Form object.
So, if you need to turn on ... you don ’ t care about the technical hoops it has to go through to do that.
Events
In VisualBasic2008 you listen for events to determine when something has happened to a control on a
form....
... happens that in VisualBasic2008 you normally have a single
namespace inside a single assembly of the same name.
The MSDN Library documentation that gets installed with Visual Studio 2008 contains ... you might decide
to modify the library slightly. Using Visual Studio 2008 you can do this very easily. When working in
Visual Studio 2008 you can make any changes you like to the code in the ... code.
However, the Visual Studio 2008 environment can still tell a lot about the classes even without the
source code. For example, IntelliSense still works. This is because Visual Studio 2008 can tell...
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Accessing Databases
Most applications manipulate data in some way. VisualBasic2008 applications often manipulate
data that come from relational databases. To do this, your ... code to connect to the database and retrieve the data.
After working through this chapter, you should know:
What a database is and the basic objects that make up a database
How to use the ...
relational database software such as Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, or Sybase.
Visual Studio 2008 provides the data access tools and wizards to connect to these databases and...
... focus on the basics for web site development and move
to database - driven applications. With Visual Studio 2008, you will be building data - driven sites in
no time.
Visual Studio 2008 is the ... toolbox for ASP.NET
Create a web site project in Visual Studio 2008
Choose between the possible locations for web sites in Visual Studio 2008
Exercises
1. Create a new web site, name it ... you saw a few basic controls and
learned that client and server code are handled differently. In the next section, you will learn where
you can host web sites with Visual Studio 2008.
Web Site...
... Documents\” & _
Visual Studio \Projects\ Address Book\Address Book\bin\Debug\” & _
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Chapter 20: VisualBasic2008 and XML
703
... Chapter 20: VisualBasic2008 and XML
708
The beginning of this chapter pitched XML as a technology for integrating software applications. It then
went on to say that for newcomers to Visual Basic, ... assumed in this code listing that your AddressBook.xml will be in C:\Users\Bryan\
Documents \Visual Studio 2008\ Projects\ Address Book\bin\Debug
. If yours isn ’ t,
change the file name value specified...
... sites online that discuss both VisualBasic .NET and Visual
Basic 2008. These sites give everything from news on moving from VisualBasic .NET to VisualBasic
2008, to listings of up and coming ... more!
VisualBasic2008 Programmer ’ s Reference
(Wrox Press, 978 - 0 - 470 - 18262 - 8)
VisualBasic2008 Programmer ’ s Reference is a language tutorial and a reference guide to the 2008 ... build on the VisualBasic2008
knowledge gained here. These will help you to specialize in particular areas. Here are the details of a
couple of key titles.
Professional VisualBasic2008
(Wrox...
... Microsoft released Visual
Basic 2008 in early 2008.VisualBasic2008 is now so tightly integrated with Visual Studio
that it is only available as a component in the Visual Studio 2008 programming suite, ... of VisualBasic2008 and Visual Studio 2008, but especially
with the tools and techniques available in Visual Studio Standard Edition and Visual Studio
Professional Edition. Although VisualBasic ... the VisualBasic2008 software (sold separately) for use.
Upgrading from Microsoft VisualBasic 6.0
Before VisualBasic .NET, of course, the programming world was blessed to have Visual Basic...
... I Getting Started with Microsoft VisualBasic2008
Setting the IDE for VisualBasic Development
The fi rst setting that you need to check was established when Visual Studio was fi rst installed ... Getting Started with Microsoft VisualBasic2008
Create a Hello World program
1. Start Visual Studio 2008 if it isn’t already open.
2. On the File menu, click New Project.
Visual Studio displays the ... during setup that you are a VisualBasic
programmer, VisualBasic is your primary development option (as shown here), but
the other languages in Visual Studio (Visual C# and C++) are always...