Visual Basic 2005 Express: Now Playing

Description

Many beginning programming books try to teach the reader three things at the same time: how to write a program, how to write a program using a particular programming language, and how to write a program using a particular compiler. To avoid this triple source of potential confusion, Visual Basic 2005 Express: Now Playing provides a short primer on how programming works in general, regardless of the programming language used. Once readers understand the general principles behind computer programming, the book then teaches readers how to use the Visual Basic Express program itself and how to write programs using the Visual Basic language. The CD includes numerous short source code examples that you can run and modify, and movies that show how to accomplish specific tasks with Visual Basic 2005 Express.

 

Table of Contents

Introduction


Part I: Learning the VB Express User Interface
Chapter 1: Making your first program
Chapter 2: Understanding the VB user interface
Chapter 3: Working with projects
Chapter 4: Designing a user interface
Chapter 5: Using the Code window
Chapter 6: Getting help (repairing VB)


Part II: Designing a User Interface
Chapter 7: Understanding Controls and Properties
Chapter 8: Using the Appearance Properties
Chapter 9: Using the Layout and Behavior Properties
Chapter 10: Designing Windows


Part III: Getting and Displaying Data on a User Interface
Chapter 11: Writing Event Procedures
Chapter 12: Getting Commands through Buttons, Menus, and ToolStrips
Chapter 13: Offering Choices with Radio Buttons and Check Boxes
Chapter 14: Accepting and Displaying Data in Text Boxes and Labels
Chapter 15: Accepting a Range of Numeric Values
Chapter 16: Using Layout Controls
Chapter 17: Displaying Dialog Boxes


Part IV: Writing BASIC Code
Chapter 18: Variables and Constants
Chapter 19: Decision making (If-then, Case)
Chapter 20: Loops
Chapter 21: Data structures
Chapter 22: String manipulation and mathematical operators
Chapter 23: Subprograms (general procedures and functions)
Chapter 24: Object-oriented programming
Chapter 25: Error handling
Chapter 26: Debugging (comments)


Part V: Enhancing Your Visual Basic Programs
Chapter 27: Enhancing your user interface
Chapter 28: Connecting to a database
Chapter 29: Displaying Pictures and Video
Chapter 30: Playing Sounds


Appendix: CD Contents
Sample VB programs
ELIZA
Graphics demo
Sound demo
Saving, opening file demo
Database demo
RoboDemo tutorials for learning VB user interface