Visual Basic 2010 How to Program: United States Edition - Softcover

"Addressing various business applications, the authors discuss the programming topics needed to implement those applications and provide simple, short, complete examples. Chapter 2 emphasizes how quickly readers can design Windows-based user interfaces." - Narges Kasiri, Oklahoma State University "A well written, authoritative textbook for all those who want to learn Visual Basic programming from the ground up." - Dr. Hamid R. Nemati, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro "Contains the information a non-programmer needs to become a master Visual Basic programmer. Excellent code examples." - Jeffrey P. Scott, Blackhawk Technical College "This book teaches you everything you need to know to build great applications the right way." - Joe Stagner, Microsoft

Visual Basic 2010 How to Program is appropriate for all basic-to-intermediate level courses in Visual Basic 2010 programming. Created by world-renowned programming instructors Paul and Harvey Deitel, Visual Basic 2010 How to Program, Fifth Edition introduces all facets of the Visual Basic 2010 language through a hands-on approach with hundreds of working programs. This book has been thoroughly updated to reflect the major innovations Microsoft has incorporated in Visual Basic 2010 and .NET 4.0; all discussions and sample code have been carefully audited against the newest Visual Basic language specification. The many new platform features covered in depth in this edition include: LINQ data queries, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), ASP.NET Ajax and the Microsoft Ajax Library, Silverlight-based rich Internet application development, and creating Web services with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). New language features introduced in this edition: object anonymous types, object initializers, implicitly typed local variables and arrays, delegates, lambda expressions, and extension methods. Students begin by getting comfortable with the free Visual Basic Express 2010 IDE and basic VB syntax included on the CD. Next, they build their skills one step at a time, mastering control structures, classes, objects, methods, variables, arrays, and the core techniques of object-oriented programming. With this strong foundation in place, the Deitels introduce more sophisticated techniques, including inheritance, polymorphism, exception handling, strings, GUI's, data structures, generics, and collections. Throughout, the authors show developers how to make the most of Microsoft's Visual Studio tools. A series of appendices provide essential programming reference material on topics ranging from number systems to the Visual Studio Debugger, UML 2 to Unicode and ASCII.