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In the Fifth Edition, Advanced Visual Basic 2010 helps those who are familiar with the fundamentals of Visual Basic 2010 programming harness its power for more advanced uses. Coverage of sophisticated tools and techniques used in the industry today include various database, ASP.NET, LINQ, WPF and Web Services topics. After studying the book and completing the programming exercises, students should be able to create small- to medium-sized Windows and Web applications that use databases. They will also gain essential concepts in object-oriented programming, event-driven programming, and test-driven development. Each subject is presented in an understandable style that makes this book a leader in the field.

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• 1 Classes
• 1.1 Classes and Objects
• 1.2 Manual Software Testing
• Tutorial 1-1 Manually testing integer input
• 1.3 Creating Your Own Classes
• Tutorial 1-2 Creating a Student Class
• Tutorial 1-3 Adding a parameterized constructor to the Student class
• 1.4 Enumerated Types
• Tutorial 1-4 Enumerated Account type
• 1.5 Focus on Program Design and Problem Solving: Bank Teller Application
• Tutorial 1-5 Building the Bank Teller application
• 2 Input Validation and User Interfaces
• 2.1 Input Validation
• Tutorial 2-1 Using the ErrorProvider control
• 2.2 Exception Handling
• 2.3 ListBox, ComboBox, and CheckedListBox
• 2.4 Dates and Times
• 2.5 ToolStrip Control
• Tutorial 2-2 Building the Coffee Shop Application
• 2.6 WebBrowser, SplitContainer, and TabControl
• Tutorial 2-3 Completing a WebBrowser application
• 2.7 Focus on Problem Solving: Kayak Tour Scheduling Wizard
• Tutorial 2-4 Completing the Kayak Tour Wizard application
• 3 Collections
• 3.1 ArrayLists
• Tutorial 3-1 ArrayList of test scores
• 3.2 ArrayLists of Custom Objects
• Tutorial 3-2 Building an ArrayList of Student objects
• 3.3 List and Dictionary Classes
• Tutorial 3-3 Creating a text concordance
• 3.4 LINQ (Language Integrated Query)
• Tutorial 3-4 Performing LINQ queries on a List
• 4 Using SQL Server Databases
• 4.1 Database Basics
• 4.2 SQL SELECT Statement
• 4.3 Using the DataGridView
• Tutorial 4-1 Showing a database table in a DataGridView control
• 4.4 Selecting DataSet Rows
• Tutorial 4-2 Filtering rows in the SalesStaff table
• 4.5 Data-Bound Controls
• Tutorial 3-3 Displaying the Members table in a ListBox
• Tutorial 3-4 Inserting rows in the Karate Payments table
• Tutorial 3-5 Adding a total to the Insert_Karate_Payments application
• 4.6 Focus on Problem Solving: Karate School Manager Application
• Tutorial 3-6 Creating the Karate School Manager startup form
• Tutorial 3-7 Karate School Manager: Listing all members
• Tutorial 3-8 Karate School Manager: Adding new members
• Tutorial 3-9 Karate School Manager: Finding members by name
• Tutorial 3-10 Karate School Manager: Listing all payments
• Tutorial 3-11 Karate School Manager: Showing payments by one member
• 5 ADO.NET Database Objects
• 5.1 Creating databases
• Tutorial 5-1 Creating a SQL Server Express Database
• Tutorial 5-2 Adding the Appointments table to the RepairServices database
• Tutorial 5-3 Adding the RepairTypes table to the RepairServices database
• Tutorial 5-4 Creating relations between the RepairTypes, Appointments, and Customers tables
• Tutorial 5-5 Changing the database connection from the SQL Express server to a database file
• 5.2 DataTables
• 5.3 Updating Databases Using SQL
• 5.4 Home Repair Services Application
• Tutorial 5-6 Adding the Appointments class to the middle tier
• Tutorial 5-7 Creating the main startup form
• Tutorial 5-8 Adding classes to the middle tier
• Tutorial 5-9 Adding controls to the New Appointment form
• Tutorial 5-10 Searching for appointments
• Tutorial 5-11 Modifying existing appointments
• Tutorial 5-12 Selecting appointments to modify
• Tutorial 5-13 Deleting an appointment
• Tutorial 5-14 Displaying a joined appointment list
• 6 Advanced Classes
• 6.1 Structures
• 6.2 Components
• Tutorial 6-1 Creating a Component and referencing it from another Application
• Tutorial 6-2 Adding an Advisor class to the RegistrationLib component
• Tutorial 6-3 Using the Advisor and Student classes
• 6.3 Unit Testing
• Tutorial 6-4 Creating a Unit Test Project
• Tutorial 6-5 Creating more unit tests for the IntArray class
• Tutorial 6-6 Testing the Advisor.MaxCredits method
• 6.4 Events
• Tutorial 6-7 The WeatherStation Events application
• 6.5 Inheritance
• Tutorial 6-8 Student Inheritance application
• 7 LINQ to SQL
• 7.1 Using LINQ to Select Data
• Tutorial 7-1 Displaying the Karate Members table
• Tutorial 7-2 Displaying the Karate class schedule
• 7.2 Updating Tables
• Tutorial 7-3 Using a BindingSource to update the Members table
• Tutorial 7-4 Using LINQ queries to add schedule entries
• 8 Creating Web Applications
• 8.1 Programming for the Web
• 8.2 Creating ASP.NET Applications
• Tutorial 8-1 Creating the Click application
• 8.3 ASP.NET Controls
• Tutorial 8-2 Student Picnic application
• Tutorial 8-3 Tracking server events
• 8.4 List-Type Controls
• Tutorial 8-4 Signing up for a Kayak Tour
• 8.5 Designing Web Forms
• Tutorial 8-5 College Advising Wizard
• 8.6 State Management
• 9 Programming Web Forms
• 9.1 Working in Source (XHTML) Mode
• 9.2 Cascading Style Sheets
• 9.3 Custom Error Handling
• 9.4 Uploading Files and Sending Email
• 9.5 Data Validation Controls
• 9.6 Working with Multiple Web Forms
• 9.7 Focus on Problem Solving: Vacation Rentals Application
• 9.8 Browser Cookies
• 10 Web Applications with Databases
• 10.1 Master-Detail Pages
• 10.2 Using Databases
• 10.3 Data Binding and ListControls
• 10.4 GridView Control Buttons
• 10.5 Using JavaScript
• 10.6 Using Ajax
• 11 Web Services and Windows Presentation Foundation
• 11.1 Introducing XML Web Services
• 11.2 NorthWind Web Service Example
• 11.3 Creating and Accessing Remote Services
• 12 Reports, MDI, Interfaces, and Polymorphism
• 12.1 Using Reports in Applications
• 12.2 Report Expert
• 12.3 Report Designer
• 12.4 Xtreme Bike Sales Example
• Chapter Summary
• Appendix A Answers to Checkpoints
• Appendix B Reference
• B.1 TimeSpan and Date/Time Formatting
• B.2 ListView Control
• B.3 SQL Server Data Types
• B.4 DataList Control (ASP.NET)
• B.5 Multiple Document Interface (MDI) Applications
• B.6 User Interface Design Guidelines
• B.7 Writing to the Application Log File
• B.8 Interfaces
• B.9 Abstract Classes and Polymorphism
• B.10 Windows Presentation Foundation

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Kip Irvine holds a M.S. degree in Computer Science from University of Miami. He taught computer programming at Miami-Dade College for 17 years, and then at Florida International University for the last 10 years. He has written programming textbooks for Addison-Wesley and Prentice-Hall, covering subjects such as Assembly Language, C++, Visual Basic, and COBOL. His books have been translated into Russian, Korean, Chinese, Polish, and French. He briefly worked as a software developer in the industry.

Tony Gaddis taught computer programming languages, operating systems, and physics at Haywood Community College in North Carolina. He was selected as the North Carolina Community College Teacher of the Year in 1994, and received the Teaching Excellence award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development in 1997. Tony has also provided training to companies and agencies, including NASA's Kennedy Space Center. He is a best-selling author of numerous computer programming textbooks for Addison-Wesley Publishing, covering topics such as Alice, Java, C++, C#, Visual Basic, and algorithms.