Visual Basic 2008 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach

✍ Scribed by Todd Herman, Allen Jones, Matthew MacDonald, Rakesh Rajan (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 687
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Sometimes you just need to solve a problem and get on with your work. To that end, Visual Basic 2008 Recipes is a compendium of practical solutions for busy VB .NET programmers. Create time for the more interesting aspects of your VB .NET project by solving common problems with the practical solutions and dozens of code examples in this book. Important .NET 3.5 technologies, such as Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) and Language Integrated Query (LINQ), are covered, and each chapter addresses a specific problem domain, including database access, multimedia, XML manipulation, networking, and security. The code is free to download, so you can use the recipes immediately.

• Take advantage of quality, ready–made solutions to common Visual Basic programming problems
• Avoid the tedium of having to reinvent the wheel—focus instead on the more interesting problems specific to your application
• Learn from and be inspired by what the authors have done. Use their work as stepping stones to solve even more complex problems

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Application Development....Pages 1-50
Data Manipulation....Pages 51-95
Application Domains, Reflection, and Metadata....Pages 97-128
Threads, Processes, and Synchronization....Pages 129-181
Files, Directories, and I/O....Pages 183-232
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)....Pages 233-261
LINQ to XML and XML Processing....Pages 263-298
Database Access....Pages 299-341
Windows Forms....Pages 343-389
Multimedia....Pages 391-435
Networking and Remoting....Pages 437-494
Security and Cryptography....Pages 495-538
Code Interoperability....Pages 539-560
Commonly Used Interfaces and Patterns....Pages 561-603
Windows Integration....Pages 605-629
Back Matter....Pages 631-680

✦ Subjects

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters