Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION. CHAPTER 1 Welcome to Visual Basic 2010. CHAPTER 2 TheMicrosoft.NET Framework. CHAPTER 3 Writing Software. CHAPTER 4 Controlling the Flow. CHAPTER 5 Working with Data Structures. CHAPTER 6 Extensible ApplicationMarkup Language (XAML). CHAPTER 7 Building Windows Applications. CHAPTER 8 Displaying Dialog Boxes. CHAPTER 9 CreatingMenus. CHAPTER 10 Debugging and Error Handling. CHAPTER 11 Building Objects. CHAPTER 12 Advanced Object-Oriented Techniques. CHAPTER 13 Building Class Libraries. CHAPTER 14 CreatingWindows Forms User Controls. CHAPTER 15 Accessing Databases. CHAPTER 16 Database Programming with SQL Server and ADO.NET. CHAPTER 17 Dynamic DataWeb Site. CHAPTER 18 ASP.NET. CHAPTER 19 Visual Basic 2010 and XML. CHAPTER 20 Deploying Your Application. APPENDIX A Exercise Solutions. APPENDIX B Where to Now? INDEX.

About the Author

Thearon Willis is an author or coauthor of nearly a dozen books and a senior consultant who develops intranet applications using ASP.NET, DHTML, XML, JavaScript, VBScript, VB COM components, and SQL Server. Bryan Newsome is an author or coauthor of many books and works for a Microsoft Partner in Charlotte specializing in Custom Software Solutions. He provides clients with solutions and mentoring on leading-edge Microsoft technologies.